Full citation: Bomuhangi, A., Doss, C. and Meinzen-Dick, R., “Who Owns the Land? Perspectives from Rural Ugandans and Implications for Land Acquisitions,” 1136 IFPRI DISCUSSION PAPER (November 2011).
Record Author: Meinzen-Dick, R
Gender, Assets, and Agricultural Development Programs: A Conceptual Framework
Full citation: Meinzen-Dick, R. et al, “Gender, Assets, and Agricultural Development Programs: A Conceptual Framework ,” 99 CAPRI WORKING PAPER (November 2011).
Who Owns the Land? Perspectives from Rural Ugandans and Implications for Large-Scale Land Acquisitions
Full citation: Doss, C., Meinzen-Dick, R., and Bomuhangi, A. (2014). “Who Owns the Land? Perspectives from Rural Ugandans and Implications for Large-Scale Land Acquisitions.” Feminist Economics, 20(1), 76-100. – This article is based on a 2008–09 study of land tenure in Uganda. It analyzes how different definitions of land ownership – including household reports, existence of ownership documents, and rights over the land – provide very different indications of the gendered patterns of land ownership and rights. While many households report husbands and wives as joint owners of the land, women are less likely to be listed on ownership documents, […]
Gender and sustainable forest management in East Africa and Latin America
Full citation: Mwangi, E., Meinzen-Dick, R. and Sun, Y. (2011). “Gender and sustainable forest management in East Africa and Latin America.” Ecology and Society 16(1): 17. – This paper presents a comparative study of forest management across four countries in East Africa and Latin America: Kenya, Uganda, Bolivia, and Mexico. It focuses on whether varying proportions of women (low, mixed, high) in forest user groups influence their likelihood of adopting forest resource enhancing behavior and finds that higher proportions of females in user groups, and especially user groups dominated by females, perform less well than mixed groups or male dominated […]