Landstack advisory
We work on both long-term research projects and short-term consultancy assignments. In recent years, our work has encompassed projects, partnerships and pro-bono engagements around
Technology & Land Administration
Building State Capacity in Land Administration
Improving Inclusive Land Administration
Engagement in Climate Action and Carbon Market Initiatives
Current projects
IncLand: Building state capacity for inclusive land administration
The project proposes to collaborate with two States of Odisha and Maharashtra; and three academic institutions to establish Land administration programmes and courses fostering interdisciplinary academic collaboration and inclusive land administration system.
About: The goal of the Conservation International study being conducted is to understand different approaches to Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IP&LC) governance in nature-based projects and to assess the level of integration of Indigenous Knowledge (IK).
Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Nature Based Project Governance
Assessing relevance and impact of Cadasta platform vis-à-vis forest rights act implementation in India
About: The goal of this study is to analyze how CADASTA’s technology, in collaboration with local partners, influences decentralized processes of rights documentation and recognition, thereby promoting equitable outcomes.
About: A World Bank supported study on women and men's participation and relationships to land, through both formal institutions and informal arrangements for land administration and management.
About: An assessment of women land rights in India and using the Agriculture Census data of Government of India.
About: A World Bank study to better understand the land policy issues holding back agricultural transformation and to identify institutional reforms and, with a focus on tenant farmers, to overcome these issues.
About: Developing a Theory of Change (ToC) that can be piloted and up scaled by a relevant actors, networks, and partnerships to drive equitable change with scalable impact at speed sustainably.
Our previous work
Women Land Rights India: Framework for Theory of Change
Land Policy Reform for Agricultural Transformation in India
About: Study aimed at assessing the experience of states in adoption of the Model Tenancy Act taking into context the legal, political, socio-cultural, economic, and institutional and agro ecological contexts, often known to influence tenancy relations.
Land Governance Study on Leasing Reform, India
ODISHA LAND RIGHTS TO SLUM DWELLERS (OLRSD) Impact Study
About: Project in partnership with RNBA aimed to strengthen its engagements and enhance impact around land rights enhancement in Manipur.
About: Study in joint collaboration with RMIT University Australia to the slum tilting process and it's acknowledged by the slum community under the world’s biggest slum titling project in Odisha state in 2017 named OLRSD.
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Community led customary land tenure mapping exercise in Manipur
Open Knowledge and Data Sharing
About: A collaboration with The land portal focusing on activities in the exchange of content, data and knowledge in the area of mutual interest