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Women's perceptions of tenure security

Evidence from 33 Countries

Reports & Research
March, 2019
Morocco, Tunisia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Cameroon, Namibia, Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Cambodia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Jordan, United Kingdom
gender equity in access to land
land tenure
land tenure systems
property rights
tenure security
women
This report uses household-level data from 33, mostly developing, countries to analyse perceptions of tenure insecurity among women. We test two hypotheses: (1) that women feel more insecure than men; and (2) that increasing statutory protections for women, for instance by issuing joint named titles or making inheritance law more gender equal, increases de facto tenure security.
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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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National Youth Policy.

National Policies
Malawi, Africa, Eastern Africa
Land & Gender
youth
rural population
farmland
gender equity in access to land
This document lays down the National Youth Policy, a document with a multi-sectoral approach whose overall goal is to create an enabling environment for all young people to develop their full potential in order to contribute significantly to personal and sustainable national development.
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Food Security Policy.

National Policies
Malawi, Africa, Eastern Africa
Land & Gender
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Food Security
sustainable land use
agricultural land management
farmland
farmers
natural resources management
land governance
fisheries
natural disasters
land management
gender equity in access to land
farming systems
food security
land rights
land ownership
The Food Security Policy is a national instrument with a multi-sectoral approach, whose long-term goal is to significantly improve food security of the population. The goal implies increasing agricultural productivity as well as diversity and sustainable agricultural growth and development.The policy aims to help eliminate hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition.
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Malawi

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2013
Malawi
water management
agriculture
gender equity in access to land
women
Book chapter
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Southern african agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2013
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Eswatini, Zambia, Zimbabwe
water management
agriculture
gender equity in access to land
women
Southern African Agriculture and Climate Change: A Comprehensive Analysis examines the food security threats facing eight of the countries that make up southern Africa — Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe — and explores how climate change will increase the efforts needed to achieve sustainable food security throughout the region. Southern Africa’s population is expected to grow at least through mid-century. The region will also see income growth.
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Overview [in Southern African Agriculture and Climate Change]

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2013
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Eswatini, Zambia, Zimbabwe
water management
agriculture
gender equity in access to land
women
Book chapter
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Women’s individual and joint property ownership: Effects on household decisionmaking

Reports & Research
January, 2014
India, Africa, Eastern Africa, Tanzania, Malawi, Mali
gender equity in access to land
women
In this paper, the relationship of women’s individual and joint property ownership and the level of women’s input into household decisionmaking is explored with data from India, Mali, Malawi, and Tanzania. In the three African countries, women with individual landownership have greater input into household decisionmaking than women whose landownership is joint; both have more input than women who are not landowners.
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Women and Land

Securing Rights for Better Lives

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2011
Eastern Africa, Global, Tanzania, Cameroon, Colombia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Senegal, Uganda
women
land rights
gender equity in access to land
research
Here it is an important book on Women's Land Rights, published by the International Development Research Centre.
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Women’s access to land and household bargaining power: a comparative action-research project in patrilineal and matrilineal societies in Malawi

Reports & Research
January, 2011
Malawi
women
land rights
gender equity in access to land
WOLREC undertook this action research in order to enhance women’s bargaining power through improved access and control over land in the patrilineal and matrilineal communities in Southern and Northern Malawi. For WOLREC, as an action-orientated NGO, the exact nature of the relationship between women’s bargaining power in the household and their access to, and control over land is key to deciding which interventions improve poor rural women’s access to economic justice.