A predominantly rural territory with few urban centers historically, the Gambia holds little in the way of well-known luxury resources commonly discussed in studies of western Africa. People of the region, in particular women, have exploited both riverine and oceanic food and material resources. The limited scholarship available on Gambian women reveals they have been essential to those endeavors contributing to economy, politics, society, and family institutions.
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Library ResourceArtículos de revistas y librosAgosto, 2019Gambia
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Library ResourceEnero, 2010Etiopía
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Library ResourceEnero, 2011Mozambique
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Library ResourceEnero, 2012Uganda
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Library ResourceEnero, 2013Camerún
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Library ResourceEnero, 2014Uganda
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Library ResourceEnero, 2020Sierra Leona
This case study reviews available literature on the land tenure situation of women in Sierra Leone and analyses the impact of an FAO project in two rural villages in ensuring that women are better able to claim their customary rights to land.
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Library ResourceEnero, 2019Zambia
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Library ResourceSeptiembre, 2021Uganda
Describes how community-level dialogues uprooted harmful gender norms that hinder women’s rights to land. Showed that shifting harmful gender norms at the community level is crucial in supporting women to access land rights. Customary leaders like indunas and village headpersons are a key entry point for that shift. Change can be slow. But spaces for dialogue;critical reflection and support for action-planning enabled the indunas to not only change their own beliefs;but also begin to see their role and their communities in a different light.
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Library ResourceOctubre, 2021Uganda
Gives details of how villagers in Chilonga in Zimbabwe’s Masvingo province are being kicked off their land;paving the way for growing lucerne grass as stockfeed. Cites some individual case histories;government support to the giant dairy company Dendairy and attempts to resist the evictions.
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