Written by Simone Adler and Beverly Bell
Published: 10 November 2015
From an Interview with Mariama Sonko
Mariama Sonko is a farmer and organizer in Casamance, Senegal. She is the National Coordinator of We Are the Solution, a campaign for food sovereignty led by rural women in West Africa.
Published today in the Mokoro newsletter online, an article from Mokoro Associate and WOLTS team member Roman Moges Asefaha.
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GRONINGEN (11 November, 2016) — Forest tenure, gender and land rights, and indigenous and community land rights are all key thematic areas related to land governance. For this
A recent World Bank study investigates the impact of land reform on the fertility outcomes of households in rural Ethiopia. In the past, public policies and customary tenure created a situation where Ethiopian households could influence their usufruct rights to land via a demographic expansion of
By: Filbert Rweyemamu
Date: August 14th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / The Citizen
Arusha — Women from marginalized communities in Africa will climb Mt. Kilimanjaro in order to raise awareness about land rights this October.
Programme manager of the Tanzania Gender Network Programme (TGNP) Grace
By: Ludovick Kazoka
Date: February 15th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / Tanzania Daily News
Human rights activists have launched a coalition, Mama Ardhi Alliance, with the aim of advocating for the amendments of the existing laws which are still infringing upon women's rights denying equal access to
By: Seth J. Bokpe
Date: August 31st 2016
Source: Graphic.com
Ghana needs to regulate and limit the size of land companies can acquire for any purposes, including real estate and agriculture.
This was the view of participants in a workshop to disseminate the findings of a research on large-
By: TNN
Date: March 8th 2016
Source: Times of India
Lucknow - On the eve of International Women's Day, while UP [Uttar Pradesh] celebrates an increased participation of women in its block and zila panchayats, higher even than the Central proposal of 50% reservation for women in local bodies,
By: Kizito Makoye Shigela
Date: September 15th 2016
Source: In Depth News
VILABWA, Tanzania (IDN) - At a small village south of Tanzania’s largest city, Dar es Salaam, women rarely talk about land issues because customary norms keep them at bay. “We don’t have the voice, its men who decide
By: Yi Ming and Lü Bingbing
Date: May 3rd 2016
Source: Women of China
Over 94 percent of rural villages or communities in east China's Shandong Province have included women's names on rural land rights certificates, to safeguard their legal rights and interests, according to a Shandong Women's
By: Lois Aduamoah – Addo, WiLDAF Ghana
Date: October 4th 2016
Source: GhanaWeb
Despite the range of legal provisions in Ghana emphasising equality of all persons before the law, there are still significant pieces of evidence to suggest that the rights of vulnerable groups including women are not
Date: 21 of June 2016
Source: IWMI
South Asian Water Studies (SAWAS), an open access journal http://www.sawasjournal.org, has issued a call for papers for a special issue on ‘Water justice, Gender and Disability.’