Women’s land rights: Customary rules and formal laws in the pastoral areas of Ethiopia – complementary or in conflict? | Land Portal

Información del recurso

Date of publication: 
Julio 2021
Resource Language: 
ISBN / Resource ID: 
MOKORO-110

Secure land tenure is key to eradicating poverty;increasing agricultural investment and ensuring food security;and is an essential element of climate action and climate resilience. Yet women have far weaker rights to land than men. These disadvantages exist broadly and with few exceptions globally and are especially limiting to the well-being of women and their families in rural areas;where land is the basis for livelihood;identity;social standing and social security. In USAID agricultural programming;this question becomes particularly relevant for fulfilling commitments to gender equality and for the success of programmes overall. This post provides an overview of the challenges to women’s secure land rights;why those challenges matter in the context of agriculture;and approaches USAID and its partners can employ to overcome them.

Autores y editores

Author(s), editor(s), contributor(s): 

Abebaw Abebe Belay and Fiona Flintan

Publisher(s): 

CGIAR (CGIAR)

CGIAR is the only worldwide partnership addressing agricultural research for development, whose work contributes to the global effort to tackle poverty, hunger and major nutrition imbalances, and environmental degradation.


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Mokoro is pleased to host the ’Land Rights in Africa’ site as a contribution to the land rights dialogue and related debates. This website was created in January 2000 by Robin Palmer, and was originally housed by Oxfam GB, where Robin worked as a Land Rights Adviser. A library of resources on land rights in Africa – with a particular focus on women’s land rights and on the impact of land grabbing in Africa – the portal has been well received by practitioners, researchers and policy makers, and has grown considerably over the years.

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