"Taking off from previous initiatives of the Land Watch Asia Campaign, this book discusses key issues in access to land and tenurial security for small farmers, rural women, indigenous peoples and other rural sectors in eight Asian countries. It also analyses the mechanisms needed for responsible land governance and the resolution of growing land conflicts."
Record Jurisdiction: None
Intimate Partner Violence and Land Toolkit
This toolkit from USAID "addresses activities and projects that USAID staff may design to strengthen and secure land tenure, property rights and land governance in rural, peri-urban and urban areas. The Toolkit is one of several gender-based violence (GBV) Toolkits that USAID has developed to address concerns related to GBV in other sectors including, but not limited to, Economic Growth, Energy and Infrastructure, Monitoring and Evaluation and the Rule of Law."
Gender, land rights, and the household economy in rural Nicaragua and Honduras
Full citation: Katz, E., & Chamorro, J. (2002). Gender, land rights, and the household economy in rural Nicaragua and Honduras. Madison, WI: USAID/BASIS CRSP.
Empowering Women through Equal Land Rights: Experimental Evidence from Rural Uganda
Gender Innovation Lab Policy Brief Issue 33, The World Bank
Mutual Effects of Land Distribution and Economic Development: Evidence from Asia, Africa, and Latin America
"The general objective of this paper is to explore the nexus between land distribution and economic development. The specific objectives are to: (i) identify which land distribution programs/activities contribute to economic development; (ii) investigate the role of stakeholders in land distribution programs that affect the growth of productivity; and (iii) assess the deficiencies of current land distribution policies in Asia, Africa, and Latin America to explore how economic development theories contribute to decreasing income inequality. "
The role of property rights in shaping the effectiveness of protected areas and resisting forest loss in the Yucatan Peninsula
This research paper investigates how a common conservation intervention (protected areas), has varying impacts depending on the underlying property rights and the profitability of forests.
OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement in the Extractive Sector
OECD provides practical guidance to mining, oil and gas enterprises in addressing the challenges related to stakeholder engagement.
The role of women in agriculture
ESA Working Paper No. 11-02
Gender and Agriculture: Inefficiencies, Segregation, and Low Productivity Traps
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 6370
Strengthening Economic Rights and Women’s Occupational Choice: The Impact of Reforming Ethiopia’s Family Law
Full citation: Hallward-Driemeier, M. & Gajigo, O., Strengthening Economic Rights and Women’s Occupational Choice: The Impact of Reforming Ethiopia’s Family Law, World Development, Volume 70, 2015, Pages 260-273.