Inclusive Food Systems: Women and Land Rights with Shipra Deo.
In the fourth episode of our Inclusive Food Systems podcast series, we discuss the connections between women’s land ownership and increased food security and empowerment, with our guest Shipra Deo.
Shipra draws from her own research and experiences in the field interacting with communities, to shed light on how India’s land inheritance laws often fail to take into account the rights and entitlements of women. We discuss additional challenges such as the intersection of caste and gender which further alienates women from land ownership, and also gender based violence against women who assert their land rights. We end the episode by solutioning for the way forward, through multi-pronged approaches that include examining patriarchal land laws, better data collection and building women’s leadership at the community level.
About the Guest:
Shipra is the Director of Women’s Land Rights at Landesa India where she leads Landesa’s work for gender equal and inclusive land governance. In recent years she has done intensive research on inheritance by women and gendered aspects of land laws in India.