Analysis and Insights

The Draft National Land Reform Policy - Implications on Gender and Equity

Bina Agarwal, Charanjit Singh, Madhu Sarin, Seema Kulkarni

Gender and Economic Policy Discussion Forum, ISST. Briefing Note 10 Forum X 29 October 2013

2013

Policy Brief

National Policy Planning and Budgeting

The brief suggests a need to revisit land reforms in the face of increasing demands on land for housing and industrialization, feminization of agriculture and landlessness of nearly half of the country?s rural population as well as for stagnating agricultural yields.

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