Full Citation: Li, Y. and Yin-Sheng, X., “Married Women’s Rights to Land in China’s Traditional Farming Areas,” 15(49) JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY CHINA 621 (2006). – This paper focuses on women’s land rights in their maiden village in traditional farming areas, and shows, based on an analysis of a case study combined with a questionnaire survey, that married women’s land rights tend to be retained in their parent’s village with the implementation of new policy and land contract laws, but that they have almost no rights in their maiden families after marriage, due to the influence of traditional marriage notions and […]
Record Topic: Customary Practices
Securing Women’s Interests within Land Tenure Reforms: Recent Debates in Tanzania
Full citation: Tsikata, D., “Securing Women’s Interests within Land Tenure Reforms: Recent Debates in Tanzania” 3(1-2) JOURNAL OF AGRARIAN CHANGE (2003).
Policy Discourses on Women’s Land Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Implications of the Re-turn to the Customary
Full citation: Whitehead, A. and Tsikata, D., “Policy Discourses on Women’s Land Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Implications of the Re-turn to the Customary ,” 3(1-2) JOURNAL OF AGRARIAN CHANGE (2003).
Women’s Land Access in Post-Conflict Rwanda: Bridging the Gap between Customary Land Law and Pending Land Legislation
Full citation: Rose, L., “Women’s Land Access in Post-Conflict Rwanda: Bridging the Gap Between Customary Land Law and Pending Land Legislation ” 13(197) TEXAS JOURNAL OF WOMEN AND THE LAW 197 (2004).
Liberalisation and the Debates on Women’s Access to Land
Full citation: Razavi, S., “Liberalisation and the Debates on Women’s Access to Land,” 28(8) THIRD WORLD QUARTERLY 1479 (December 2007). – This article focuses on the tensions and ambiguities that may keep women from effectively accessing land. Barriers include liberalization policies that focus on “family farming,” customary land tenure systems, and decentralization of land management. Women’s rights advocates fear that these can be manipulated by groups hostile to women’s rights. [Threats to Women’s Land Tenure Security and Effectiveness of Interventions – Annotated Bibliography]
Women’s Land Rights
Full citation: ActionAid International, “Women’s Land Rights,” ACTIONAID INTERNATIONAL DISCUSSION PAPER (March 2006).
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Cultivating Women’s Rights for Access to Land
Full citation: Hatcher, J., Meggiolaro, L. and Ferrer, C.S., “Cultivating Women’s Rights for Access to Land,” ACTIONAID AND INTERNATIONAL FOOD SECURITY NETWORK COUNTRY ANALYSIS REPORT (October 2005).
Making Progress, Slowly: New Attention to Women’s Rights in Natural Resource Law Reform in Africa
Full citation: Wily,L.A., “Making Progress, Slowly: New Attention to Women’s Rights in Natural Resource Law Reform in Africa,” CTA/GOU REGIONAL CONFERENCE PRESENTATION (Kampala, February 2001).
The National Land Policy for Kenya: Critical Gender Issues and Policy Statements
Full citation: Kenya Land Alliance, “The National Land Policy in Kenya: Critical Gender Issues and Policy Statements,” 1 KLA ISSUES PAPER (August 2004).
Gender Aspects of Land Reform: Constitutional Principles
Full citation: Kenya Land Alliance, “Gender Aspects of Land Reform: Constitutional Principles,” KLA BOOKLET (November 2002).