Record Item Year: 2003
Regulations on Returning Cultivated Land to Forest%3$s>
Shanghai City Government Opinions About Implementing the PRC Rural Land Contracting Law%3$s>
Rural Land Contracting Law of the People’s Republic of China [English]%3$s>
Effective March 1, 2003. This law addresses farmers’ land use rights.
Orissa Forest Development Act, 2003%3$s>
The Civil Law in Spain and Spanish America%3$s>
Gender and Land Rights Revisited: Exploring New Prospectus via the State, Family and Market%3$s>
Abstract: The question of women’s land rights has a relatively young history in India. This paper briefly traces that history before examining why gendering the land question remains critical, and what the new possibilities are for enhancing women’s land access. Potentially, women can obtain land through the State, the family and the market. The paper explores the prospects and constraints linked to each, arguing that access through the family and the market deserve particular attention, since most arable land in India is privatized. On market access, the paper makes several departures from existing discussions by focusing on the advantages, especially […]
Securing Women’s Interests within Land Tenure Reforms: Recent Debates in Tanzania%3$s>
Abstract: This article is an account of the debates around the recent land tenure reforms in Tanzania. It focuses on the discourses of Government officials, academic researchers and NGO activists on the implications of the reforms for women’s interests in land and the most fruitful approaches to the issues of discriminatory customary law rules and male–dominated land management and adjudication institutions at national and village levels. The article argues that from being marginal to the debates, women’s interests became one of the most contentious issues, showing up divisions within NGO ranks and generating accusations of State co–optation and class bias. […]