Full Citation: Jacobs, S., “Land reform: still a goal worth pursuing for rural women?” 14 JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT 887 (2002).
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Land Reform: Still a Goal Worth Pursuing for Rural Women?
Abstract: Land reform has recently become a topic of interest to the media. Given historical experience and current changes, are land reform policies still worthwhile objects of struggle for rural women? The article discusses arguments ‘against’: for instance, women have been excluded from most past land reforms, and many rural people have had to diversify their livelihood bases, so that agriculture has diminished in importance. Despite these and other points, the article argues that land reform which includes women would be of great benefit: it would increase food security, would allow wives to keep better control over their own incomes,
Language: English
Year: 2002