Revenue land

Revenue (non-forest) land can become a secure source of livelihood for socially excluded groups. The Poorest Areas Civil Society (PACS) Programme challenges barriers to lease or ownership of this land.

We address these barriers by initiating social audits, land rights campaigns and advocacy, led by community-based organisations (CBOs), civil society organisations (CSOs) and their networks.

CBOs and CSOs are also encouraged to organise and mobilise people to deal with local climate change and disasters.

Our aims

We focus on the following aspects of ownership and use of revenue land:

  • Legal titles for homestead land occupied by households from socially excluded groups.
  • Various forms of discrimination in access to revenue land, such as the denial of agricultural land on lease to members of socially excluded groups, or demands for higher rent from them.
  • Equal access to inputs for developing land and turning it into a productive asset.
  • Registration of tenancy rights for members of socially excluded groups.
  • Allotment of surplus land to members of socially excluded groups.
  • Non-discriminatory control over common property resources like village grazing lands.

News and views

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