Bangladesh Land Status Report 2017

This edited volume brings together research on the land scenario of Bangladesh: land grabbing and the loopholes in land laws; the denial of access to khas land; char land as a “paradise of land grabbing”; the status and problems of implementing the Vested Property Return Act; land rights of indigenous peoples in the plains and land grabbing in the Chittagong Hill Tracts; women as silent victims of land grabbing, and women’s land rights beyond inheritance.

It also assesses fixed rent leasing and contract farming, the role of NGOs and development partners in land and agrarian reform, and perspectives, issues and policies of land reform — concluding with the Land Reform Monitoring Index 2017.