Information
About the RDI
Rural Development Institute
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RDI is a nonprofit association of attorneys helping
the countryside poor in developing countries obtain legal rights
to land. |
(RDI) The Rural Development
Institute. IT is a global nonprofit institute working to end global
poverty by helping to secure land rights for the world poorest.
RDI has worked in more than 40 countries to help secure land rights
for people. Nominated for the Nobel Prize and other prestigious
awards, RDI partners with government, world leaders, NGOs, foundations,
donor agencies such as the World Bank, USAID, the United Nations
Food and Agriculture Organization and others to design and implement
land laws, policy and programs that provide opportunity, further
economic growth and promote social justice.
History of the RDI: - RDI was founded by lecturer
Roy Prosterman, a Harvard Law School graduate who left his Wall
Street profession at Sullivan & Cromwell to teach at the University
of Washington School of Law where he well-known the Law in Sustainable
Development Program. Troubled by the escalating conflict in Vietnam,
Prosterman acknowledged that secure land rights could provide the
rural poor a place to grow food to feed their family and a establishment
to raise themselves out of poverty without being forced to join
the Viet Cong. |
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| Imprtant Information About the RDI’s Work :- |
| RDI has worked in over many countries.
Today, RDI works in China, India and post-conflict areas of Africa
with a focus on women’s land rights. Women comprise over 50%
of the world’s population, are accountable for 60-80% of the
world’s food manufacture and yet own less than 5% of the world’s
titled land.
RDI’s “micro-land ownership” program in India and Pakistan provides landless families with a micro-plot as small as 1/10th of an acre on which they can build shelter, grow food to supplement the family diet and income, and raise livestock or start a micro-enterprise. Like the idea that started the “micro-credit” movement, “micro-land ownership” has the potential to provide opportunity for millions of the world’s poorest. |
