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.
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesJunio, 2010Kenya, África
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Library ResourceEnero, 2011Zimbabwe
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Library ResourceArtículos de revistas y librosEnero, 2011Mozambique
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
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesDiciembre, 2010Zambia
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.
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesDiciembre, 2010Mozambique
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.
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Library ResourceEnero, 2011Uganda
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Library ResourceEnero, 2010Marruecos, Filipinas, Sudáfrica, Turquía, Chile, India, México, Brasil
How has citizen action resulted in national policy change in different parts of the world?
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesEnero, 2010Sudáfrica, 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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Library Resource
A Training Toolkit-Land Law & Gender
Recursos y herramientas de capacitaciónEnero, 2010UgandaProperty 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.
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesDiciembre, 2010Zimbabwe, África subsahariana
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