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Cato Video • August 16, 2007 

# featuring Tim Hanstad of the Rural Development Institute. 

Tim Hanstad is the president of the Rural Development Institute, which works to eliminate poverty worldwide. Key to Handstad¹s work is reforming land rights. Hanstad argues that the lack of land rights affects half of the world’s rural families — some 230 million households — and landlessness has aggravated poverty, social unrest, and environmental degradation. 

(See the full event: [Giving Land Rights to the World’s Poor](https://www.cato.org/event.php?eventid=3884).) 

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