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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 1983Philippines
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2011Eastern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa
In Uganda, Tanzania, and Kenya, a decentralized approach to land administration promises more accessible dispute resolution and a better deal for women. Among the challenges however, are old social attitudes that pre-empt discussion about women’s right to control land. In Lira district, for example, in-laws and land-grabbers routinely chase widows off land. A “viciously vibrant land market” often means that women are swindled in Bugunda district.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2011South Africa, Southern Africa
The objective is to record current living customary law and ways in which it is moving in progressive directions so that this information can be used towards justice, as evidence in court cases, and in policy development and political engagement from local to national levels.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchSeptember, 2017Nigeria, Sub-Saharan Africa
The study focuses on impacts of PZ Wilmar’s acquisition of nearly 30,000 hectares of land. Wilmar is a multinational company involved in land grabbing cases related to oil palm plantations in Cross River State, Nigeria. The study shows the extent of Wilmar’s infringement on communal land rights, examining cases of eviction and destruction of livelihoods. Findings show that the four communities studied suffered from increasing food prices, deficits of local staple foods, evictions and displacement of poor farmers.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2001China
Summary of EEPSEA research report: Econometric analysis of the causes of forest land use changes in Hainan, China
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 1999
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Library ResourcePeer-reviewed publicationDecember, 2014India, Southern Asia
Rural women in India are rarely consulted in development projects that may increase men’s production and income, but add to their own workloads. Women’s on-farm household and productive labor is significant but underrecognized and under-valued. Women farmers have no rights to farmlands, though most farm production is carried out by them. This paper addresses women’s decision making regarding mango production.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2011Pakistan
For decades, efforts to distribute agricultural land more equitably consistently excluded women. Then, a groundbreaking research project made women part of the discussion. It set the stage for a provincial campaign that for the first time in Pakistan’s history transferred land to poor women.
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Library ResourcePolicy Papers & BriefsDecember, 2006India
Across South Asia, many rural people use common land to harvest naturally-growing plants, grow crops and feed their livestock. Increasingly this activity is being commercialized as farmers move to sell the produce they obtain. Despite the importance of this development to village people, its overall effect is uncertain and there are fears that it will damage the environment.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2011Sub-Saharan Africa
Women in many African countries have a legal right to
own land, but this often means little in areas where
“customary law” prevails. As a result, researchers in two
countries have come to believe that women’s security
of tenure depends as much on addressing social
assumptions as on enacting legal reforms.
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