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  1. Library Resource
    Country Partnership Strategy: Tajikistan, 2016–2020

    Sector Assessment (Summary): Agriculture And Natural Resources

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2016
    Tajikistan

    Tajikistan’s population is predominantly rural and largely dependent on agriculture. Agriculture accounts for a quarter of Tajikistan’s gross domestic product and export revenues, 39% of tax revenues, and half of total employment. Given the widespread migration of male Tajik workers overseas, women constitute the majority of employees (accounting for 53% of the economically active population in agriculture). Arable land is in short supply at 0.15 hectares (ha) per capita (rising to 0.20 ha per capita for the rural population).

  2. Library Resource
    Food Security and Governance Factsheet: Afghanistan
    Reports & Research
    December, 2016
    Afghanistan

    In Afghanistan, insecurity over land and water rights hampers investments in food production and irrigation. In rural areas, customary tenure systems, partly based on religious law, are the most relevant but suffer from weak recognition and offer little protection to rights holders. The land policy reform is on-going but remains slow. Moreover, land administration capacity is weak and improvements mostly take place in urban areas. In this context, land disputes are common and often violent.

  3. Library Resource
    Regulations
    November, 2016
    United Kingdom

    These Regulations amend the Organic Aid (Scotland) Regulations 1994 so as to provide with respect to succession of rights of occupation of an agricultural holding and provide certain exemptions to this amendment.

    Implements: Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2016 (2016 asp 18). (2016-04-22)
    Amends: Organic Aid (Scotland) Regulations 1994 (S.I. No. 1701 of 1994, S. 75). (1994-06-27)

  4. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2016
    South Africa

    Land reform in South Africa intends to redress racial imbalances with regard to ownership and access to land. On the surface, the various strategy documents also talk to transferring land to black women, the youth and the disabled. This article examines interesting patterns that are emerging with respect to gender relations and land ownership driven by land reform including mounting evidence of exclusive female ownership and co-ownership of land among land reform recipient households.

  5. Library Resource

    Is the participation, and benets of affected local communities meaningful, and equitable?

    Journal Articles & Books
    Reports & Research
    December, 2016
    Kenya

    Land acquisitions, either driven by foreign investments or domestic investment needs have continued to polarize opinions. When this research was proposed, it was premised on arguments by scholars Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Helen Markelova, who had analysed agricultural land deals, and argued that there were potentially two schools of thought about foreign acquisitions over agricultural land.

  6. Library Resource
    Cover photo
    Reports & Research
    December, 2016
    Tanzania

    Despite progressive provisions on gender equality in Tanzania’s land laws, women have little representation in land allocation decisions, including meetings of village councils and village assemblies. Mainstreaming gender in local regulations can help to address this problem.


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    Cover photo

    Lessons from Tanzania

    Reports & Research
    December, 2016
    Tanzania

    This report constitutes one of four countrywide assessments produced under the International Institute for Environment and Development’s (IIED) ‘Gender, land and accountability in the context of agricultural and other natural resource investments’ initiative. The goal of the initiative is to strengthen rural women’s livelihood opportunities by empowering them in relation to community land stewardship and increasing their ability to hold agricultural investors in East and West Africa to account. The main aim of this report is to provide a backdrop of relevant policies and practice.

  8. Library Resource
    Institutional & promotional materials
    December, 2016
    Bolivia

    Un alto porcentaje de la población femenina trabaja en el sector agrícola y asume la responsabilidad de la producción y la economía de la familia y la comunidad dedicando mayor tiempo a las actividades agrícolas, cuidado del ganado, tejido, labores del hogar y trabajo colectivo en sus comunidades, debido a la fuerte migración de los hombres a las urbes y centros poblados, las mujeres cumplen una importantísima función para la seguridad alimentaria, ya que trabajan en casi la totalidad de las etapas de la agricultura.

  9. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2016
    Peru

    Según el Tercer Censo Nacional Agropecuario (CENAGRO) 1993, un 4,7% del total de mujeres pequeñas productoras cuenta con un título de propiedad debidamente registrado frente a un 14,7% de varones.

  10. Library Resource
    Front cover
    Reports & Research
    December, 2016
    Tanzania

    Training volunteers to help their communities defend their land rights has proved an effective approach for promoting land justice in Tanzania. This report documents how Hakiardhi, a Dar-es-Salaam based research institute working on land governance issues, has established and trained a 600-strong network of male and female ‘Land Rights Monitors’ (LRMs) operating in 300 villages on various aspects of the land law, so they can help people and local governments to exercise and ensure respect for their legal rights in land disputes.

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