Sustainable land governance requires that all members of a community, both women and men, have equal rights and say in decisions that affect their collectively-held lands. Unfortunately, women around the world have less land ownership and weaker land rights than men – but this can change, and this report shows ways how that can be done.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchFebruary, 2021Africa, Mexico, Indonesia
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchFebruary, 2021Africa, Mexico, Indonesia
La gobernanza sostenible de la tierra requiere que todos los miembros de una comunidad, tanto mujeres como hombres, tengan los mismos derechos y voz en las decisiones que afectan a sus tierras de propiedad colectiva. Lamentablemente, las mujeres de todo el mundo tienen menos tierra en propiedad y derechos más débiles que los hombres, pero esto puede cambiar, y este informe muestra cómo hacerlo.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2018Mozambique, Tanzania
Women disproportionately bear the negative impacts of large-scale land investments (in agribusiness, extractives, logging) in the global South.
▪▪Lack of formal land rights and their subordinate role in the household and community lead to the marginalization of women in decision-making processes and the bypassing of them in the distribution of compensation and the planning and implementation of resettlement.
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Library ResourcePolicy Papers & BriefsMarch, 2018Mozambique, Tanzania
Tanzania and Mozambique — countries of vast mountain ranges and open stretches of plateaus — now face a growing land problem. As soil degradation, climate change and population growth place enormous strains on the natural resources that sustain millions of people, multinational companies are also gunning for large swaths of land across both countries. Caught between these pressures, many poor, rural communities get displaced or decide to sell their collectively held land.
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Focus on Land in Africa: Mali Lesson Brief, Women, Inheritance, and Islam
Policy Papers & BriefsJanuary, 2011AfricaThis lesson brief discusses the stratutory, customary, and religious frameworks governing women's rights to land in Mali and offers suggestions as to how these rights might be strenghtened. It is part of the Focus on Land in Africa: Land Tenure and Property Right online educational tool.
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Focus on Land in Africa: Ghana Lesson Brief, Land Administration at a Crossroads
Policy Papers & BriefsJanuary, 2011AfricaThis lesson brief discusses projects developed to reinvigorate the process of land registration formalization in peri-urban Ghana, their impacts, and the risks of unintended consequences for women, pastorlaists and the poor if their rights are explicitly taken into account.
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Focus on Land in Africa: Ghana Lesson Brief, Women's Evolving Land Rights
Policy Papers & BriefsJanuary, 2011AfricaThis lesson brief presents the situations faced by modern Ghanaian women and compare their evolving land rights across regions. It is part of the Focus on Land in Africa: Land Tenure and Property Rights online educational tool.
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Focus on Africa: Uganda Lesson Brief, Women and Customary Land Rights
Policy Papers & BriefsJanuary, 2011AfricaThis lesson brief explores the struggles women face in benefiting from their customary rights. It is part of the Uganda module on the Focus on Africa: Land Tenure and Property Rights online educational tool.
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