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The Landesa Center for Women's Land Rights has just launched LandWise, a free online resource containing land-related laws, information about relevant customary practices, and explanatory materials. LandWise is an important new tool for policymakers, researchers, legal practitioners, and women's advocates working to strengthen women's land rights around the world. 

Welcome to LandWise!

We strive to provide users with up-to-date family laws from around the world. Please help us improve our library by contributing any family laws that you have. You can upload suggested materials here.

Also, help us make this website more useful by providing us with your feedback and suggestions. Just click on the grey “Feedback” button on the lower right hand side of the screen.

Sincerely,
The LCWLR

Featured Resources

We recently added three Practice Guides. To view these materials click here.

To get a quick overview of the types of materials available in our database click here.

About

The Landesa Center for Women’s Land Rights (LCWLR) believes that all women should have secure rights to and control over the land they use and the land they farm.  To learn more about the LCWLR click here.

An initiative of the LCWLR, LandWise empowers policymakers, researchers, legal practitioners, and women’s advocates to strengthen women’s land  rights around the world through access to relevant and reliable information. LandWise is a free online resource connecting users to legal materials, information about relevant customary practices, and explanatory materials.

How to Use the Practice Guides and the LandWise Database

LandWise is a database containing legal materials and articles about women's land rights. The Practice Guides are intended to help users make use of the materials they locate within LandWise.

We suggest that new users start with the Practice Guide The Research Process. Because LandWise is in its early stages, we do not have all of the legal materials and articles that many researchers will need to conduct their work. By reviewing The Research Process users can identify other sources for locating legal materials and other resources. Once users have located the relevant materials they will want to review the different subject-specific Practice Guides that will help them analyze and understand the materials they've located.

Below is one possible step-by-step approach to using this site:

1. Review the Practice Guide called The Research Process.
2. Search the LandWise database for materials on a specific country or topic.
3. Search for other useful materials in sources identified in The Research Process.
4. Use the applicable subject-specific Practice Guides to analyze the materials you have located through your research.

All of the Practice Guides are available here.

Collection Development

LandWise is a work in progress and we are adding to our database on an ongoing basis. Our initial collection efforts focused on India and China, where we are currently working. We will continue to collect materials on those countries and are now expanding our collection efforts into several countries in Africa. Our goal is to provide access to land laws and family laws and related material from as many countries as possible. We are interested in legal materials from all levels of government (national, state, and local). If you have any materials you would like to recommend for LandWise, please contact us. 

We update our database regularly but cannot guarantee that all laws are the most recent versions. Please contact us if you have updated information.

Language and Translations

Many of the legal materials in the LandWise database are English translations of laws. Unless otherwise specified by the applicable government/legal jurisdiction, translations are not official versions of the laws and users should be careful when using translated materials. We collect and provide access to materials in many different languages; however, at this time we cannot provide English translations for all non-English laws.

Full-Text Availability

We strive to make as many full-text materials available as possible. However, some useful resources are copyright protected and we cannot provide free access to full-text copies. In the case of copyright protected articles, we provide a citation and a brief summary of the article and then link users to the source where they can purchase the article.

Dislaimers

The information contained in this website is general legal information and should not be construed as legal advice to be applied to any specific factual situation. The information contained in LandWise cannot replace the advice of competent legal counsel licensed in your jurisdiction.