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Abstract: In Zimbabwe, as in many other parts of Africa, agriculture is the principal source of livelihood for widows and orphans. Within this reality, a groundbreaking study was commissioned to investigate the land and property rights of women and orphans in Zimbabwe in the context of HIV/AIDS. It also examines the coping strategies, in terms of land-related livelihoods, adopted by widows and other vulnerable women affected by the pandemic. Providing revealing empirical evidence and new insights based on interviews with key informants, focus group discussions and a semi-structured interview questionnaire, the study is framed around four Zimbabwean sites located in […]

An example from the Chiweshe communal area, Zimbabwe.

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 to access and administer land is being limited not so much by traditional and customary social rules and law, but rather by the adverse socioeconomic context which characterizes the whole peasant sector. On the other, data confirm that in spite of the appearance of several […]