Recent Press Releases

February 3, 2010
RDI receives largest-ever individual gift to support efforts to end global poverty through property rights

November 16, 2009
Secure land rights will boost China’s rural economy, survey says

November 5, 2009
RDI Receives $9 million from Omidyar Network to Help Bring Land Rights to the Poor
 
October 29, 2009
International Expert on Women’s Development Issues Joins RDI Board of Directors
 
October 15, 2009
RDI launches Global Center for Women’s Land Rights
 
October 9, 2009
WRI and RDI Launch New Initiative to Communicate Property Rights Lessons in Africa
 
August 3, 2009
Secure land rights help millions escape poverty in rural India
 
June 3, 2009
One Billion Rising: Law, Land and the Alleviation of Global Poverty
 
April 1, 2009
Rural Development Institute wins 2009 Evergreen Award

November 19, 2008
Secure Land Rights to Help Women Achieve Food Security,
Escape Poverty in Rural India

September 28, 2008
Rural Development Institute wins World Bank competition for its innovative solution to rural poverty “Barefoot lawyers” help secure land rights for millions of Chinese farmer

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

RDI receives largest individual gift from philanthropist in Asia
Seattle Times
By Kristi Heim
February 3, 2009

Chinese cash in on new land opportunities
USA Today
By Calum MacLeod, USA TODAY
November 7, 2008

Hints of Discord on Land Reform in China
New York Times
By Edward Wong
October 15, 2008

China Announces Land Policy Aimed at Promoting
Income Growth in Countryside
New York Times
By Edward Wong
October 12, 2008

China May Let Peasants Sell Rights to Farmland — a harvest in Shandong Province. Many farmers eke out a living on tiny, state-owned plots but seek better paying
jobs in the cities
New York Times
By Edward Wong
October 11, 2008

Plenum grapples with reforms for rural economy —
entire nation would benefit from a richer countryside, experts say
South China Morning Post
Josephine Ma in Beijing and Jane Cai
October 10, 2008

Seattle groups work to secure land, shelter rights
Seattle-based groups — Rural Development Institute, Agros International and Habitat for Humanity — work to help secure land rights and shelter for people in the Northwest and around the world.
Seattle Times
By Tim Hanstad, Greg Rake and Marty Kooistra, Special to The Times
October 8, 2008

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

Five Questions for Tim Hanstad, President/CEO, Rural Development Institute
Philanthropy News Digest
April 11, 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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