Currently Tanzania faces numerous challenges regarding Land Registration Procedure in Tanzania as reflected in land owners perceptions on the procedure, especially in rural areas. This makes the need to improve the procedure compelling. However, the current Administrative, Financial, Legal, and Institutional aspects need to be taken into the consideration in promoting and improving the process of obtaining CCROs in the country.

Por distintas causas, en América Latina existen menos probabilidades de que las mujeres sean propietarias de la tierra. Guatemala no es la excepción.

Land, and in particular agricultural land, is central to livelhoods in rural Zambia. Zambia is characterised by a dual legal system of customary and statutory law and by dual land tenure, with state land and customary land. A first wave of socialist-oriented reforms took place after independence in 1964, which abolished previously existing freehold land in favour of leasehold. Subsequent changes in government policies under the influence of structural adjustment programmes and a new government in 1991 paved the way for a market-driven land reform.

A mulher em Moçambique é a principal utilizadora da terra, geradora de renda e veículo de disseminação de valores e educação na família”. Por isso, a sua participação na gestão e administração da terra e outros recursos naturais mostra se imprescindível.

Com  o  frenesim  da  indústria  extractiva  em  Moçambique,  ficou  instalada  a  percepção  generalizada  de que,  tirando  as  empresas  extractivas,  todas  as  outras  partes  interessadas  (incluindo  o  governo) possuem  conhecimento  bastante  limitado  sobre  os  contornos  da  pesquisa,  prospecção,  exploração  e comercialização  dos  recursos  extractivos  do  país.  Assim,  o  debate  que  tem  acontecido  sobre  a indústria  extractiva  no  país  é  limitado  pela  insuficiência  de  informação  relevante e em tempo útil quechega às diferentes partes  intere

Um clima de agitação, ansiedade e incerteza, suscepơvel de levar a sérias tensões sociais, tem estado a crescer junto das comunidades do Distrito de Palma, nomeadamente da Vila-Sede e povoações circunvizinhas. Estratégias sinuosas e inconsistentes, de comunicação com as comunidades locais, entremeadas de indícios de atropelos à lei, por parte das autoridades governamentais a vários níveis, sobre o processo conducente à construção da Fábrica de Gás Natural Liquefeito, a ser explorado na Bacia do Rovuma, são a principal causa deste clima.

This paper focuses on the enforcement of proprietary rights of women by the Indian courts and their endeavor to interpretlegislation in favour of marginalized women. 

The Legal Assessment Tool (LAT) for gender-equitable land tenure was developed by FAO’s

Gender and Land Rights Database (GLRD) for the purpose of providing prompt, targeted and

effective policy advice and capacity development to FAO’s Member countries working towards

gender-equitable land tenure.

Less than 2% of the land available worldwide is owned by women. Why is the issue of land so gendered? What approaches and lessons learned can development professionals utilise to address the issue of gender and land? Data demonstrates a glaring gender gap in land holdings in all regions of the world. This is regardless of the fact that women produce 60% to 80% of food in developing countries. This working paper highlights critical issues concerning gender and land and provides an overview of the international and regional legal and policy context.

Characterized as divinely ordained, the Islamic law of inheritance defines women’s rights to property of the deceased with specific roles and responsibilities for each individual. Obviously, the Islamic law of inheritance is a major contribution to the legal system of the world, compared to the customary laws in the pre‐Islamic Arab society that denied any proprietary right by way of inheritance to female relatives including daughters.

Social equity is the fairness of treatment of all concerned stakeholders according to an agreed set of principles, particularly in procedures used to form and implement policies and in the distribution of resources and costs. In order to understand the practical implementation of various dimensions of equity in forest management, two case studies were carried out in two community forests (CF) of Nepal, namely Chisapani CF of Nawalparasi district and Bandre CF in Syangja district.

In Asia, while women play central roles in the use, management and conservation of forest resources and agricultural lands, they are often excluded from land management decision-making. Customary practices and widespread perceptions that the forest and land-related sectors are more “suitable for men” result in women’s lack of opportunities to take part in landscape decision-making, lack of access to financial services, and lack of ownership of land.