This is a 2009 study undertaken by the Rural Development Institute, now Landesa, and authored by Elisa Scalise. It focuses on six South Asian countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka) and addresses both formal and customary laws and pratices governing women's inheritance rights.
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesEnero, 2009Asia, Afganistán, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistán, Sri Lanka
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IFAD women’s land rights project: Opportunities and challenges
Informes e investigacionesEnero, 2009El SalvadorPoor rural women are among the most vulnerable people in El Salvador, where the Reconstruction and Rural Modernization Programme was launched in 2003 to aid areas stricken by earthquakes two years earlier. Women’s land tenure was not initially a central theme of the programme. The issue had to be addressed, however, when women – a large segment of the target population – were unable to benefit from an investment fund for rural economic development because they had no access to land.
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesEnero, 2009Global
[via UN-HABITAT] GLTN considers gender as a critical cross-cutting theme in the work on promoting pro-poor, large-scale land tools (for more information on GLTN see www.gltn.net). This short report summarises an analysis undertaken by the GLTN Secretariat to assess how women’s rights, and specific needs, are being addressed by selected projects in the GLTN land tool inventory—a database consisting of numerous international development projects in the land sector is available on the website.
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Library ResourceEnero, 2009Global
This publication, from the Global Land Tool Network, presents a mechanism for effective inclusion of women and men in land tool development and outlines methodologies and strategies for systematically developing land tools that are responsive to both women and men’s needs. Equal property rights for women and men are fundamental to social and economic gender equality. However, women often face discrimination in formal, informal and customary systems of land tenure.
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Library ResourceArtículos de revistas y librosSeptiembre, 2009Rwanda
Female-headed households often experience inequalities in access to resources and income-generating opportunities. Conflicts may make women poorer. But it is important to realise that conflicts also offer an opportunity for change in which gender stereotypes shift and gender roles and identities can be renegotiated. Did genocide and civil war in Rwanda lead to new opportunities for rural women?
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Exploring cases from East Africa and Latin America
Documentos de política y resúmenesDiciembre, 2009 -
Library ResourceArtículos de revistas y librosDiciembre, 2009Perú
1. Tropical rainforests are a global conservation priority. Robust arguments supporting rainforest conservation can attract funding and shape land-use management. However, some popular assertions regarding the value of tropical forests remain largely untested. 2. This study tests the validity of two arguments in support of mature tropical rainforest conservation: first, that these forests should be conserved based on their value as potential sources of medicine.
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesOctubre, 2009Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Sudáfrica
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 ResourceMateriales institucionales y promocionalesOctubre, 2009Sudáfrica
AFRA Newsletter No.65
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesOctubre, 2009Mozambique
Land is critical to the economic, social and cultural development of many countries.
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