"Set against the backdrop of escalating food prices and worsening food insecurity, the issue of land becomes more relevant and urgent. The facts and figures speak of a great irony. More than half a billion people in Asia suffer from hunger and food insecurity, and too often these are the small food producers, who comprise farm laborers, tenants and small farmers. The region is home to 75% of the world?s farming households, 80% of which are resource-poor, and lack access to productive land. Farmers? and rural food producers? lives are closely bound up with their lands, which are their source of food and livelihood as well as their best chance of escaping poverty. For indigenous peoples (IPs), securing recognition of their customary rights to ancestral lands is indispensable to their right to self-determination, cultural integrity and identity. Unfortunately, these and other groups that till the land and depend on it for their survival have least access to it. Across many countries, improving access to land is key to solving many social problems, including rural unemployment, poverty, food insecurity, rural-urban migration, and political stability. Increasingly, the land access issue has been seen as a major reason behind armed conflict, domestic violence, corruption, internal displacement, structural violence and other social ills...... The Prolonged Struggle for Land Rights in Asia - A Regional Overview... Land Watch Asia Campaign Declaration.....Country Papers:- Bangladesh: The Backpedalling Stops... Cambodia: Overcoming a Failure of Law and Political Will ... India Riding the Crest of People?s Movements ...1 Indonesia The Persistence of Popular Will ... Nepal Asserting Freedom from Central Control ... Pakistan Fighting the Pyramid of Power ... Philippines Defending the Gains of Tenurial Reform ... Sri Lanka Land Ownership and the Journey to Self-Determination ..... Keywords: Asia Land Tenure Security Land Management Overview