This study was commissioned to review the current land tenure systems in selected countries in southern Africa, to identify constraints and opportunities relating to tenure security and improvements in women’s land rights and to recommend strategies to alleviate problems.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJanuary, 2003Southern Africa
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJanuary, 2011Southern Africa, Zimbabwe
Dominant arguments about women’s land access stress the vulnerability of single women’s land rights in customary tenure areas. The vulnerability is based on long-held assumptions about customary tenure land governance, land use and gender relations. The paper seeks to contribute to the debate on customary tenure area land access, landlessness and understanding customary tenure evolution. Although single women have increasingly insecure tenure on customary tenure lands, in those systems spaces exist for single women to negotiate access to land.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJanuary, 2011Southern Africa, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Zimbabwe
Poor women in developing countries rely on land as source of livelihood. Increasing pressure on land — brought on by globalisation pressures, increased population and privatisation — undermines women’s land tenure security. The comparison of women’s land access is predominantly measured against that of men, and this has been the basis for formulating policy aimed at increasing women’s land tenure security. However, this dichotomy reduces women to a homogenous group which experiences tenure security in an identical manner, so the dichotomy masks several differences which exist among women.
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Case studies from Namibia, Uganda and Zambia
Reports & ResearchJanuary, 2003NamibiaThis publication discusses the linkages between agriculture and HIV/AIDS through three case studies (Uganda, Namibia and Zambia). It emphasises vulnerability of women and orphans with insecure property rights.
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Gender Differences in Asset Rights in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJanuary, 2002South Africa
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJanuary, 2008Namibia
This document describes the consultation of traditional authorities in Namibia on how communal land is managed and on the registration of customary land rights.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJanuary, 2013Southern Africa
Urban LandMark visited DFID London from 12 to 13 November 2012 to present the organisation' s recent work on and approach to improving access to urban land and property rights.The main objective of the visit was to showcase Urban LandMark's work, impact and lessons learnt over the last seven years to a broader, more global audience, as well as to a larger audience within DFID, Urban LandMark's main funder over the past six years.
Read more at http://www.urbanlandmark.org.za/newsletter/issue/0801/04.php
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Land access and labor and income-generating opportunities
Reports & ResearchJanuary, 2013Southern AfricaIn recent years, Zambia has witnessed increased interest from private investors in acquiring land for agriculture. As elsewhere, large-scale land acquisitions are often accompanied with promises of capital investments to build infrastructure, bring new technologies and know-how, create employment, and improve market access, among other benefits
A Case Study of Selected Agricultural Investments in Zambia (2013)
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsJanuary, 2002Lesotho
This paper addresses the amelioration of the impact of AIDS on land tenure and livelihoods. The author argues that, in Lesotho, land policy development should be informed by the status of community support and welfare for those infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. He offers three main policy recommendations as follows: Land administrators should be fully informed about the epidemic and various legislations that govern the rights of the affected households. This will help to ensure uniform implementation of measures to support affected households.
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