Full citation: McAuslan, P., “Personal Reflections on Drafting Laws to Improve Women’s Access to Land: Is There a Magic Wand?” 4(1) JOURNAL OF EASTERN AFRICAN STUDIES (2010).
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Securing Land Rights for Women
Full citation: Daley, E. and Englert, B., “Securing Land Rights for Women” 4(1) JOURNAL OF EASTERN AFRICAN STUDIES (2010).
The Land Governance Assessment Framework – Identifying and Monitoring Good Practices in the Land Sector
Full citation: Deininger, K., Selod, H. and Burns, A., THE LAND GOVERNANCE ASSESSMENT FRAMEWORK – IDENTIFYING AND MONITORING GOOD PRACTICES IN THE LAND SECTOR (World Bank 2011).
Who Owns the Land? Gender and Land-Titling Programmes in Latin America
Full citation: Deere, C. D. and Leon, M., “Who Owns the Land? Gender and Land-Titling Programmes in Latin America,” 1(3) JOURNAL OF AGRARIAN CHANGE 440 (July 2001). – The main focus of state intervention in Latin American agriculture in the 1990s was on land-titling programs, designed to promote security of tenure and enliven land markets. A review of seven of these projects suggests that they were often designed without sufficient attention to civil codes and marital regimes that protect women’s property rights. They often ignored that a household’s endowment of land may consist of three forms of property: the wife’s, […]
Gender-Based Violence and Property-Grabbing in Africa: A Denial of Women’s Liberty and Security
Full citation: Izumi, K., “Gender-based violence and property-grabbing in Africa: a denial of women’s liberty and security” 15(1) GENDER & DEVELOPMENT (March 2007).
Policy Discourses on Women’s Land Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Implications of the Re-turn to the Customary
Full citation: Whitehead, A. and Tsikata, D., “Policy Discourses on Women’s Land Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Implications of the Re-turn to the Customary ,” 3(1-2) JOURNAL OF AGRARIAN CHANGE (2003).
Women, Wives and Land Rights in Africa: Situating Gender Beyond the Household in the Debate Over Land Policy and Changing Tenure Systems
Full citation: Yngstrom, I. “Women, Wives and Land Rights in Africa: Situating Gender Beyond the Household in the Debate Over Land Policy and Changing Tenure Systems,” 30(1) OXFORD DEVELOPMENT STUDIES 21 (February 2002).
New Agribusiness Investments Mean Wholesale Sell-Out for Women Farmers
Full citation: Tandon, N., “New Agribusiness Investments Mean Wholesale Sell-Out for Women Farmers,” 18(3) GENDER & DEVELOPMENT 503 (November 2010).
Liberalisation and the Debates on Women’s Access to Land
Full citation: Razavi, S., “Liberalisation and the Debates on Women’s Access to Land,” 28(8) THIRD WORLD QUARTERLY 1479 (December 2007). – This article focuses on the tensions and ambiguities that may keep women from effectively accessing land. Barriers include liberalization policies that focus on “family farming,” customary land tenure systems, and decentralization of land management. Women’s rights advocates fear that these can be manipulated by groups hostile to women’s rights. [Threats to Women’s Land Tenure Security and Effectiveness of Interventions – Annotated Bibliography]
Women’s Land Rights
Full citation: ActionAid International, “Women’s Land Rights,” ACTIONAID INTERNATIONAL DISCUSSION PAPER (March 2006).
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