Includes evolution of communal areas in Zimbabwe, research context and findings, processes leading to matongo, vulnerability of women’s land access, bargaining for land in patrimonial governance systems.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchMarch, 2011Zimbabwe, 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 & ResearchDecember, 2010Kenya, Uganda, Sub-Saharan Africa
The aim was to analyze the obstacles to, and opportunities for women’s access to land, with emphasis on the identification of more effective strategies in improving the security of women’s land rights. This report is a programme evaluation including lessons learned. Case studies drawn from the advocacy project are attached as Annexes.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJanuary, 2011Madagascar
This report is one of the 28 being published as a part of the global study. The full list of studies, and information on other initiatives by ILC relating to Commercial Pressures on Land you can find here.
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A SURVEY OF IDP RETURN AND RESETTLEMENT ISSUES AND LESSON: ACHOLI AND LANGO REGIONS
Reports & ResearchFebruary, 2008UgandaThis is the second in a series of land studies for northern Uganda, whose core objective is to inform the Plan for Recovery and Development of Northern Uganda (PRDP) and the National Land Policy. It builds on the work of the first phase conducted in Teso region to present a more quantitative analysis of trends on disputes and claims on land before displacement, during displacement and emerging trends or occurrences on return for Acholi and Lango sub-regions.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJanuary, 2011Uganda
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJanuary, 2011Kenya
Access to and control over land is crucial for family well-being and food security in Kenya. Most land in Kenya is acquired through inheritance of family ancestral land, which is mostly passed down the male line.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2010Kenya, Uganda, Sub-Saharan Africa
The aim is for participants to develop an innovation plan focused on advocacy for women’s access to and control over land, employing ideas and tools acquired during the Learning Route of the International Land Coalition (ILC - www.landcoalition.org) programme. Four proposals for innovation plans are provided as examples.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJanuary, 2011Kenya
In the experience of GROOTS Kenya, HIV-positive widows are often thrown out of their matrimonial homes, their land grabbed by in-laws as they are blamed for their husbands’ deaths and/or feared to die within a short period of time. Due to a lack of awareness on land rights, as well as the importance of retaining legal documents to lodge court cases, the ability of widows and orphans to control land and other family assets in Gatundu district is threatened.
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Library ResourcePeer-reviewed publicationOctober, 2014Ethiopia, Kenya, Mongolia, India
Large-scale land acquisitions have increased in scale and pace due to changes in commodity markets, agricultural investment strategies, land prices, and a range of other policy and market forces. The areas most affected are the global “commons” – lands that local people traditionally use collectively — including much of the world’s forests, wetlands, and rangelands. In some cases land acquisition occurs with environmental objectives in sight – including the setting aside of land as protected areas for biodiversity conservation.
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