Full citation: Henrysson, E. and Joireman, S. (2009). “On the Edge of the Law: Women’s Property Rights and Dispute Resolution in Kisii, Kenya.” Law Society Review 43(1), 39-60. – This study used interviews and focus groups to explore property disputes and perceptions of formal and customary systems of dispute resolution. The initial interviews were structured and conducted with various groups and individuals. In Kenya, government efforts at establishing clearly defined property rights and adjudication mechanisms have run up against alternative processes for the adjudication of disputes. This research demonstrates that customary processes may also carry a monetary cost that puts […]
Record Topic: Land & Property
Gender and sustainable forest management in East Africa and Latin America
Full citation: Mwangi, E., Meinzen-Dick, R. and Sun, Y. (2011). “Gender and sustainable forest management in East Africa and Latin America.” Ecology and Society 16(1): 17. – This paper presents a comparative study of forest management across four countries in East Africa and Latin America: Kenya, Uganda, Bolivia, and Mexico. It focuses on whether varying proportions of women (low, mixed, high) in forest user groups influence their likelihood of adopting forest resource enhancing behavior and finds that higher proportions of females in user groups, and especially user groups dominated by females, perform less well than mixed groups or male dominated […]
News Analysis: Laws for traditional leaders emulate the logic of apartheid
Reviled Land Act is being re-enacted
King’s culture call is all about land
New Form of Dispossession in SA: King’s Land Claim in KZN Signals Land Grab for Mineral Rights by Rural Elites
Tanzania: The dilemma and difficulties of land reform
Climate change has disproportional impact on women
How Can a Focus on the Rights to Land and Related Economic Resources make a Difference for Poor Women in Africa? Seven Concerns
Full citation: Hellum, A., “How Can a Focus on the Rights to Land and Related Economic Resources make a Difference for Poor Women in Africa? Seven Concerns,” (Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, December 2008).
A Case Study on the Settlement of Rural Women affected by Land Requisitioning in China
Full Citation: Peimin, L., “A Case Study on the Settlement of Rural Women affected by Land Requisitioning in China,” 16(50) JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY CHINA 133 (2007).