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Desigualdades de classe e gênero no acesso à terra

uma aproximação a partir das práticas das participantes do Movimento de Mulheres Rurais do Sertão Central de Pernambuco

Reports & Research
January, 2010
South America, Brazil
Land & Gender
agricultural land management
agriculture
gender equity in access to land
land
land access
land rights
land tenure
rural areas
rural population
women
Esta dissertação aborda as imbricações de classe e gênero nos processos organizativos relacionados ao acesso à terra. A pesquisa visou compreender de que forma a participação das mulheres no Movimento de Mulheres Trabalhadoras Rurais tem contribuído para gerar mudanças em relação ao acesso e controle da terra no Sertão Central de Pernambuco, Brasil.
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Women’s Inheritance Rights to Land and Property in South Asia

A Study of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka

Reports & Research
December, 2009
Global
Land & Gender
gender equity in access to land
women
This study was undertaken by the Rural Development Institute for the World Justice Project. The study reviews the formal and customary laws and practices governing the rights of women to inherit land in six South Asian countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka). The study includes an analysis of existing laws and customs and their impact on inheritance and land rights in all six countries. It also provides recommendations for how to design interventions that can attempt to improve women’s inheritance rights.
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Women’s land rights in Southern Africa

Reports & Research
October, 2009
Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
advocacy
community land rights
gender equity in access to land
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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Patterns and trends of child and maternal nutrition inequalities in Nigeria

Reports & Research
January, 2010
Nigeria
rural population
gender equity in access to land
Despite the fact that nonincome dimensions of well-being such as nutrition and health are now placed on the global development agenda, substantial gaps remain in our knowledge about patterns and trends in nutrition inequalities in many developing countries.
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The effects of political reservations for women on local governance and rural service provision

Reports & Research
January, 2009
gender equity in access to land
land governance
women
"In 1993, India introduced quota-based political reservations for women in rural areas with the objective to promote gender equality in human development by making rural service provision and local governance inclusive and responsive to the needs of women. Recent evidence shows that reservation policies for women (1) stimulate the political participation of women in rural areas, (2) shift rural service provision to public goods that reflect gender preferences, and (3) improve the access to and the quality of public services.
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Gender responsiveness of selected projects in the GLTN land tool inventory: Identifying how women’s needs are addressed

Reports & Research
January, 2009
Global
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
capacity development
environment
extractive industries
farmers
gender equity in access to land
land grabbing
land policies
land rights
landlessness
natural resources management
rural development
women
[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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El Salvador: Technical assistance on women’s land agreements

IFAD women’s land rights project: Opportunities and challenges

Reports & Research
January, 2009
El Salvador
Land & Gender
gender equity in access to land
land rights
research
rural development
women
Poor 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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Women’s Inheritance Rights to Land and Property in South Asia

Reports & Research
January, 2009
Asia, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Land & Gender
gender equity in access to land
land inheritance rights
land rights
women
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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Women From Mining Affected Communities Speak Out: Defending Land, Life & Dignity

Reports & Research
January, 2010
Ghana
Land & Investments
gender equity in access to land
land grabbing
land rights
advocacy
Indigenous Peoples
pastoralists
women

This International Women and Mining Network - RIMM's publication is one step towards building an awareness of the challenges and struggles experienced by women in particular places where companies are extracting wealth from the depths of the earth. The perspectives of these outspoken women on mining are rarely heard in international media, court rooms, parliamentary legislatures, or international policy development forums.
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Women’s Inheritance and Property Rights: A Vehicle to Accelerate Progress Towards the Achievement of the Millennium Development Goals - Paper N. 13

Reports & Research
January, 2009
Ethiopia
women
land rights
property law
legal empowerment
gender equity in access to land
Strengthening women's inheritance and property rights can be an effective means of decreasing poverty and increasing gender equality, and thereby accelerating progress towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This paper presents two case studies from Rwanda and Ethiopia to illustrate the potential impact that advocacy, legislative reform and law enforcement in this area can have on the achievement of the MDGs in developing countries.