Record Item Year: 2008
Strengthening Women’s Control of Assets for Better Development Outcomes
Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Rules
Central government rules for recognizing and vesting the forest rights and occupation in forest land in forest dwelling Scheduled Tribes and other traditional forest dwellers residing in such forests.
Women’s Property Rights, HIV and AIDS & Domestic Violence: Research Findings from Two Districts in South Africa and Uganda
Constitution of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar
The source for this link is the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
Constitution of the Republic of Maldives
The source for this link is the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
China’s Classification-Based Forest Management: Procedures, Problems, and Prospects
China’s new Classification-Based Forest Management (CFM) is a two-class system, including Commodity Forest (CoF) and Ecological Welfare Forest (EWF) lands, so named according to differences in their distinct functions and services. The purposes of CFM are to improve forestry economic systems, strengthen resource management in a market economy, ease the conflicts between wood demands and public welfare, and meet the diversified needs for forest services in China. The formative process of China’s CFM has involved a series of trials and revisions. China’s central government accelerated the reform of CFM in the year 2000 and completed the final version in 2003. […]
Feminization of Agriculture in China? Myths Surrounding Women’s Participation in Farming
ABSTRACT: The goals of this article are to help build a clear picture of the role of women in China’s agriculture, to assess whether or not agricultural feminization has been occurring, and if so, to measure its impact on labour use, productivity and welfare. The article uses two high quality data sets to explore who is working on China’s farms and the effects of the labour allocation decisions of rural households on labour use, productivity and welfare. It makes three main contributions. First, we establish a conceptual framework within which to define the different dimensions of agricultural feminization and its […]
Women’s Property, Women’s Agency in China’s ‘New Enclosure Movement’: Evidence from Zhejiang
Who gets what, why and how, when Chinese villagers’ land is enclosed? Focusing specifically on changes in women’s property rights and drawing on data from Zhejiang province, this article shows that state, village and household institutions interact to produce significant gender disparities in both the compensation paid to expropriated villagers and the registration of ownership of household assets. Yet it would be incorrect to conclude that, dispossessed,women thereby lack agency.Analysis of women’s responses to expropriation suggests that by selectively deploying laws, rules and norms in different settings,women are influencing not only compensation distribution, but also the terms under which the […]
Increasing Women’s Participation in Village Government in China: Is It Worth It?
ABSTRACT: In the last three decades in China, few and declining numbers of women have participated in the main grassroots institutions of rural government, the village committee and the village branch of the Chinese Communist Party. This article examines a project aimed at addressing this problem, initiated in 2003 in Heyang county, Shaanxi, by one of China’s largest and most influential women’s nongovernmental organizations, WestWomen, together with the state-affiliated Women’s Federation. The article discusses the goals, strategies, and short-term results of the Heyang Project. It then discusses the longer-term potential of the Heyang model for achieving greater gender equity and […]