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  1. Library Resource
    Customary land reform
    Informes e investigaciones
    Diciembre, 2010
    Zambia

    In the name of development, governments in southern Africa are reformulating land policies to facilitate privatisation of customary land rights. It is argued that this can stimulate land markets, (foreign) private investment, access to formal credit, and enhance security of tenure (by way of holding title), thereby leading to economic growth and poverty alleviation.

  2. Library Resource
    Artículos de revistas y libros
    Enero, 2011
    Mozambique

    Private investment is critical to Mozambique’s development strategy.
    Investment can stimulate the rural economy by helping to modernize the
    agriculture sector, provide rural employment, and establish new markets
    and market linkages. Private investment can fund the development of

  3. Library Resource
    Informes e investigaciones
    Diciembre, 2010
    Mozambique

    The complex relationship between law, land rights and customary practices is increasingly recognized as foundational to formulating successful development policies. Similarly, the essential role of women’s economic participation to development and the current trend of gender discriminatory land and inheritance customary practices have prompted domestic civil society organizations in developing countries to use statutory provisions guaranteeing gender equality to improve women’s land tenure security.

  4. Library Resource

    A Training Toolkit-Land Law & Gender

    Recursos y herramientas de capacitación
    Enero, 2010
    Uganda

    Property rights economically empower women by creating opportunities for earning income, securing their place in the community and ensuring their livelihoods. When women are economically empowered, it spurs development for their families and communities. Property Rights and Gender in Uganda: A Training Toolkit seeks to strengthen understanding of property rights for women and men as equal citizens.

  5. Library Resource
    Informes e investigaciones
    Enero, 2010
    Kenya, África

    Includes inheritance: a key way women access land; local mechanisms: ‘custom’, power dynamics and lack of engagement; formal justice system: community pariah status and systemic barriers. The lack of access to land cannot be framed as a failing of formal or informal systems, but rather as issues with both. The key to increasing access to justice at both formal and informal levels is to address power dynamics and understand how they operate to the detriment of women.

  6. Library Resource
    Informes e investigaciones
    Junio, 2010
    Kenya, África

    Includes official land rights in Kenya; refusing inheritance – widows and daughters in the patrilineage, dispute trajectories; institutionalizing women’s exclusion – local control boards, local dispute tribunals, formal courts; shifting the debate; working with constructive values in this context. The problem needs to be tackled using the avenues that currently promote the marginalization of women; the socio-cultural value systems that determine which behaviour, arguments, and actions are legitimate in a community.

  7. Library Resource
    Informes e investigaciones
    Noviembre, 2010
    Zambia, África

    Includes background to women’s land rights in Zambia; policy and legal reforms of the1990s; key findings – gender insensitivity on land laws and policies, the high cost of legal fees to handle land disputes, the limited benefits of title deeds for women, lack of awareness on land policy process, land grabbing and disinheritance, lack of security of tenure, lack of access to justice; conclusions and recommendations.

  8. Library Resource
    Informes e investigaciones
    Octubre, 2010
    Uganda, África

    Includes background to women’s land rights in Uganda; lack of information; prevailing cultural attitudes that discriminate against women; lack of formal land ownership by women; lack of participation of women in land policy formulation; exclusion of women in matters of land inheritance; lack of access to justice; gaps in the ongoing land reform process; conclusions and recommendations.

  9. Library Resource
    Informes e investigaciones
    Enero, 2010
    Sudáfrica, África

    Contains a critique of food and land reform policies in South Africa, findings, analysis and recommendations. Findings focus on women and farming: significance, roles and responsibilities, accessing and cultivating land, support from the private and public sector, reflections of emerging women farmers

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