This study explores the impact of changes in land tenure institutions on women's land rights and the efficiency of tree resource management in Western Ghana. We find that customary land tenure institutions have evolved toward individualized systems to provide incentives to invest in tree planting. However, contrary to the common belief that individualization of land tenure weakens women's land rights, these have been strengthened through inter vivos gifts and the practice of the Intestate Succession Law.
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesMayo, 2013República Centroafricana, Noruega
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Library ResourceArtículos de revistas y librosDiciembre, 2019África, África septentrional, Asia central, Asia occidental, Europa
Countries of the Near East, North Africa, Europe and Central Asia (NEN) region face a myriad of social, economic and political challenges that have stalled their structural and rural transformation processes. This has had a detrimental impacton rural youth, who, as a result, face limited economic opportunities. The NEN region has the highest youth unemployment rates in the world. Weak education systems are failing to provide youth, especially in rural areas, with the cognitive and non-cognitive skills they need to compete in a global economy.
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Land Use Policy Volume 41
Publicación revisada por paresNoviembre, 2014Malawi, Noruega, Estados Unidos de AméricaBased on government statistics and interviews with villagers across Malawi this article argues that customary matrilineal and patrilineal land tenure systems serve to weaken security of land tenure for some family members as well as obstructing the creation of gender-neutral inheritance of lands. Data from the National Census of Agriculture and Livestock 2007and the 2008 Population and Housing Census are used to characterize marriage systems and landholding patterns of local communities. Marriage systems correspond to customary land-tenure patterns of matrilineal or patrilineal cultures.
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Library ResourceArtículos de revistas y librosNoviembre, 2018Serbia, Nepal, Marruecos, Guatemala, Filipinas, Uganda, Albania, Omán, Perú, Azerbaiyán, Indonesia, Zimbabwe, Colombia, Camboya, Congo, Argentina, Sierra Leona, Tanzania, China, México, Kenya
Goal 5 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) “Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls” recognizes the fundamental role of women in achieving poverty reduction, food security and nutrition.
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Library ResourceEnero, 2005Ucrania, Kirguistán, Rusia, Moldavia, Belarús, Sudáfrica, Tayikistán, Turkmenistán, Uzbekistán, Tanzania, Kazajstán, Armenia, Brasil, África subsahariana, América Latina y el Caribe
This brief explores the reform of land tenure institutions which re-emerged in the 1990s, and asks if these reforms are any more gender sensitive than those of the past?The paper highlights that a focus of the recent reforms has been on land titling, designed to promote security of tenure and stimulate land markets. The reforms have often been driven by domestic and external neoliberal coalitions, with funding from global and regional organisations which have argued that private property rights are essential for a dynamic agricultural sector.
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Library ResourcePublicación revisada por paresArtículos de revistas y librosDiciembre, 2013Asia meridional, Asia oriental, África subsahariana, América del Sur, África, América Septentrional, Brasil, China, India, Estados Unidos de América, Europa
This 2012 Global Food Policy Report is the second in an annual series that provides an in-depth look at major food policy developments and events. Initiated in response to resurgent interest in food security, the series offers a yearly overview of the food policy developments that have contributed to or hindered progress in food and nutrition security. It reviews what happened in food policy and why, examines key challenges and opportunities, shares new evidence and knowledge, and highlights emerging issues.
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Library ResourceConvenciones internacionales o TratadosEnero, 1979Egipto, Libia, Marruecos, Sudán, Túnez, Burundi, Comoras, Djibouti, Eritrea, Etiopía, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauricio, Mozambique, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Camerún, República Centroafricana, Chad, Guinea Ecuatorial, Gabón, Santo Tomé y Príncipe, Lesotho, Namibia, Sudáfrica, Esuatini, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Malí, Mauritania, Níger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leona, Togo, Cuba, Dominica, República Dominicana, Granada, Haití, Jamaica, Saint Kitts y Nevis, Santa Lucía, Trinidad y Tabago, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, México, Nicaragua, Panamá, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Perú, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela, Canadá, Estados Unidos de América, Kazajstán, Kirguistán, Tayikistán, Turkmenistán, Uzbekistán, China, Japón, Mongolia, Camboya, Indonesia, Malasia, Myanmar, Filipinas, Tailandia, Timor-Leste, Viet Nam, India, Irán, Maldivas, Nepal, Pakistán, Sri Lanka, Georgia, Iraq, Israel, Jordania, Kuwait, Líbano, Omán, Qatar, Arabia Saudita, Siria, Turquía, Emiratos Árabes Unidos, Yemen, Bulgaria, República Checa, Hungría, Moldavia, Polonia, Rumania, Rusia, Eslovaquia, Ucrania, Dinamarca, Estonia, Finlandia, Islandia, Irlanda, Letonia, Lituania, Noruega, Suecia, Reino Unido, Croacia, Grecia, Italia, Macedonia del Norte, Malta, Montenegro, Portugal, San Marino, Serbia, Eslovenia, España, Francia, Alemania, Liechtenstein, Luxemburgo, Países Bajos, Nueva Zelandia, Fiji, Papua Nueva Guinea, Islas Salomón, Kiribati, Islas Marshall, Nauru, Palau, Islas Cook, Niue, Samoa, Tonga
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) - currently ratified by 187 countries - is the only human rights treaty that deals specifically with rural women (Art. 14). Adopted in 1979 by the United Nations Generally Assembly, entered into force in 1981. The Convention defines discrimination against women as follows:
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