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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).

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Women’s land rights and social movements in the Brazilian agrarian reform

Full citation: Deere, C.D. (2003). “Women’s land rights and social movements in the Brazilian agrarian reform.” Journal of Agrarian Change, 3 (1-2), pp 257-288. – This article examines the evolution of the demand for women’s land rights in the Brazilian agrarian reform. Most of the credit for raising the issue of women’s land rights rests with women within the rural unions, as a by–product of the effort to end discrimination against women in all its dimensions. The achievement of formal equality in land rights did not lead to increases in the share of female beneficiaries of the reform, which remained […]

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Towards decentralization and privatization of China’s collective forestlands: A Study of 9 villages in 3 provinces

Full Citation: Shen, Y., Zhnag, X., Xu, X., Zhu, Z., and Jiang, C., “Towards decentralization and privatization of China’s collective forestlands: A Study of 9 villages in 3 provinces,” 11(4) INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY REVIEW 28 (2009).

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