Landlessness is a huge problem all over the world.
But, activists say, the program is too narrow to help a large number of people and doesn't solve the fundamental problem of landlessness.
Landlessness is a rising problem for farmers across India, but Mr. Hazarika's situation is unusual: his plot was located on Majuli, one of the world's largest "inland" islands, an ancient religious center that is home to about 170,000 people and dozens of monasteries.
What we've discovered while trying to tackle some of the world's most challenging problems --polio, HIV, malandlessnessessness, generational poverty, malnutrition - is that poverty, sickness, and frustration abroad affects us at home.
Yes, the greatest dilemmas facing humanity are still landlessness, homelessness, and hunger... but today our televisions and newspapers tell us about these fundamental problems more quickly and more simply than literature ever could.
But microplots are a feasible cure for landlessness when more ambitious programs have failed.
"The presence of palm oil plantations has spawned a new poverty and is triggering a crisis of landlessness and hunger.
He broaches the novel in quirky thematic fashion, with gracefully written compact essays on topics like landlessness, chowder and sharks.
The Philippines is full of forgotten citizens, marginalised by isolation and poverty, landlessness and illiteracy, by loggers and prospectors, armed thugs and corrupt local officialdom.
She said the work of the Rural Development Institute, the first Kravis Prize recipient, has become a case study at the Stanford Business School for how it addressed rural landlessness in India.
