The Women’s Land Rights in Southern Africa Project (WOLAR) is aimed at enhancing women’s access to, ownership of, control over land and other productive resources and services in order to meet their basic livelihood needs and become more economically independent and secure.
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesOctubre, 2009Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Sudáfrica
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesDocumentos de política y resúmenesDiciembre, 2015Tanzania, Malawi, Uganda, África, África oriental
In sub-Saharan Africa women comprise a large proportion of the agricultural labor force, yet they are consistently found to be less productive than male farmers. The gender gap in agricultural productivity-measured by the value of agricultural produce per unit of cultivated land-ranges from 4-25 percent, depending on the country and the crop.1 The World Bank Africa Gender Innovation Lab, UN Women, and the UNDP-UNEP Poverty-Environment Initiative jointly produced a report to quantify the cost of the gender gap and the potential gains from closing that gap in Malawi, Tanzania, and Uganda.
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesOctubre, 2009Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, África
Includes the legal and policy situation relating to women’s land rights in Southern Africa; women farmers speak out on which land rights are being enjoyed, or not; potential springboards to the realisation of women’s land rights; baseline trends and key conclusions; recommended action points.
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesMarzo, 2007Malawi, África
Malawi, like other countries in Africa, has a new land policy designed to clarify and formalise customary tenure. The country is poor with a high population density, highly dependent on agriculture, and the research sites are matrilineal-matrilocal, and near urban centres. But the case raises issues relevant to land tenure reform elsewhere: the role of ‘traditional authorities’ or chiefs vis-a-vis the state and ‘community’; variability in types of ‘customary’ tenure; and deepening inequality within rural populations.
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesEnero, 2004Kenya, Zambia, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, África oriental, África austral
What are the links between HIV/AIDS and women's property rights in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)? This paper asks if women's lack of rights increases household poverty and their own vulnerability to infection, and if securing these rights can reduce the impacts of the epidemic on poverty. The paper notes that gender inequality in land ownership is common in SSA, due to male preference in inheritance, male bias in state programmes of land distribution, and gender inequality in the land market.
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesEnero, 2006Malawi, África austral, África oriental
Malawi is facing increasing land scarcity and food insecurity for its large rural population and is in the midst of an on-going land policy reform process. This report asks how these reforms may affect women's land rights in a situation of increasing scarcity and competition for land. Reforms include the formalisation of customary land rights as private land rights as a way to ensure tenure security and equitable access to land. It warns that through this approach, women's rights may become increasingly marginalised.
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Library ResourceArtículos de revistas y librosDiciembre, 2017Malawi, Uzbekistán
This paper provides a brief synthesis of research conducted on gender in irrigation, and the tools and frameworks used in the past to promote improvement for women in on-farm agricultural water management. It then presents results from the pilot of the Gender in Irrigation Learning and Improvement Tool (GILIT) in locations in Malawi and Uzbekistan in 2015.
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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 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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Library ResourcePolíticas NacionalesMalawi, África, África oriental
The Food Security Policy is a national instrument with a multi-sectoral approach, whose long-term goal is to significantly improve food security of the population. The goal implies increasing agricultural productivity as well as diversity and sustainable agricultural growth and development.The policy aims to help eliminate hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition.
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