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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2011
    Eastern 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.

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2011
    South 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.

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    September, 2017
    Nigeria, 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.

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 1999
  5. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    December, 2014
    India, 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.

  6. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2011
    Pakistan

    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.

  7. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2006
    India

    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.

  8. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2011
    Sub-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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