The Big Picture: Land and Gender Issues in Matrilineal Mozambique
Full citation: Villanueva, R., “The Big Picture: Land and Gender Issues in Matrilineal Mozambique,” RESEARCH REPORT (May 2011).
The Big Picture: Land and Gender Issues in Matrilineal Mozambique
Abstract: This paper analyses using empirical data women’s reality in Northern Mozambique when it comes to land tenure. In Mozambique coexist two different kinship systems, one patrilineal system in force in Southern Mozambique and one matrilineal in parts of the centre and North. The paper argues that in the current context, the right of women