Recent Press Releases

May 5, 2008
Rural Development Institute and Omidyar Network working to bring land rights to millions of rural poor in India

March 20, 2008
RDI Announces Fellowships to Impact Global Poverty at International Women’s Day Event

February 27, 2008
RDI and Indian Government Partner to Lift 90 Million Rural Poor with Micro-Land Ownership

October 29, 2007
Corporate Executives Join RDI Board of Directors to Help End Global Poverty

August 6, 2007
Rural Development Institute CEO invited to join world leaders at Clinton Global Initiative 2007 Annual Meeting

May 13, 2007
RDI named as a finalist for the Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize

May 2, 2007
RDI hires two Rwandan attorneys to support land rights in Rwanda

February 26, 2007
Forum to Focus on Women and Land Rights as Key to Reducing Global Poverty: Rural Development Institute Sponsors Event to Mark International Women’s Day

February 12, 2007
Major China Study Confirms Rural Land Rights Help Narrow Rural-Urban Economic Gap

November 15, 2006
Philanthropist Bill Clapp Joins Global Leaders on Rural Development Institute’s Board of Directors

April 17, 2006
In China’s Land-Reform Efforts, Rural Reality Lags Official Policy

March 14, 2006
Roy L. Prosterman Awarded Henry R. Kravis Prize in Leadership; Rural Development Institute Founder Noted as “Champion for the World’s Poor”

March 8, 2006
The John Templeton Foundation awards $1.3 million to RDI to Secure Land Rights for Poorest of the Poor in India and Indonesia

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RDI in the News

Government to buy plots so landless poor can build homes
Wall Street Journal
May 23, 2008

Rural Development Institute Receives $4.3 Million from Omidyar Network
Philanthropy News Digest
May 18, 2008

Omidyar Network gives 4.3M to RDI
Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal
May 13, 2008

Saving Asia from the Ground Up
Washington Times, Andy Zieminski
August 6, 2007

In Person with Lincoln Miller, COO at the Rural Development Institute
Puget Sound Business Journal
February 16, 2007

China’s Widening Income Gap
Business Week Asia
By Dexter Roberts
February 16, 2007

The Rural Land Question in China: Analysis and Recommendations Based on a Seventeen-Province Survey
New York University Journal of International Law and Politics
By Zhu Keliang, Roy Prosterman, Ye Jianping, Li Ping, Jeffrey Riedinger, and Ouyang Yiwen.
February 2007

Land Reform in the 21st Century
Seattle Journal for Social Justice, Vol. 4, Issue 2
Roy Prosterman and Tim Hanstad
Spring/Summer 2006.

Visionary’s Cure for Global Poverty Rooted in the Land
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
By Kristi Heim
May 14, 2006

From Land Rights to Economic Boom
China Business Review
By Zhu Keliang and Roy Prosterman.
May 30, 2006.

Land Seizures Rise Sharply in China: Beijing Struggles to Rein In Localities and to Defuse Resentment in Countryside
The Wall Street Journal Asia
By Jason Dean
May 5, 2006

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