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La fabrique de la coutume au Maroc : le droit des femmes aux terres collectives

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2017
Morocco
Land & Gender
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
customary law
communal territory
customary land rights
women
Cet article situe les débats actuels autour de l’accès genré aux terres collectives au Maroc par rapport à une discussion plus large sur l’héritage colonial et la fabrique du droit coutumier. La construction coloniale de la ‘collectivité ethnique’ et l’institutionnalisation du ‘droit coutumier’ ont préservé la coutume comme catégorie juridique mais elles ont rigidifié son application en l’inscrivant dans le cadre plus général du droit positif.
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Broken Home: Women's housing, land and property rights in post-conflict Iraq

Reports & Research
May, 2020
Iraq
Land & Gender
land rights
displacement
land dispute
housing rights
women
Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi women displaced by war remain unable to return to their homes because of systemic injustices that prevent them from proving or claiming ownership of their property.

New research by the Norwegian Refugee Council reveals that displaced women in Iraq are much worse off than men: they are 11 per cent more likely to face barriers impeding them from going back home after years of suffering in displacement camps since the end of the war against Islamic State group in their areas of origin.
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Targeted Study on the Role of Customary Land Formalization in Women’s Economic Empowerment

Reports & Research
May, 2022
Tanzania, Global
Land & Gender
land documentation
land rights
customary land rights
customary tenure
women
This report presents the results of a mixed-methods study on the role of customary land documentation in strengthening Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE). The overarching purpose was to help fill critical knowledge gaps on if and how strengthening women’s land rights via formalized customary land documentation affects their empowerment and economic growth, with a specific focus on women’s access to credit and other financial services, land investments and income opportunities.
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2013 Agricultural Census Whole Kingdom

Reports & Research
December, 2014
Thailand
Land & Gender
farmland
agricultural land management
farming systems
agriculture
land ownership
farmers
women
The National Statistical Office has conducted the Agricultural Census every 10 years in accordance with the recommendation of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and this census round was the sixth of its series. The census aims to provide basic information of the structure of agriculture and that information provides as a guideline for developing agricultural policies and plans as well as for monitoring agricultural development for both national and local levels.
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La foresterie communautaire

Opportunité ou chimère pour les femmes du Bassin du Congo ?

Reports & Research
February, 2019
Middle Africa
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
Land, Climate Change & Environment
community forestry
community land rights
women

Cette note thématique rédigée à l’initiative de Fern, a été élaborée dans le cadre de l’initiative CoNGOs (Collaboration d’ONG en faveur de moyens de subsistance durables et équitables dans les forêts du bassin du Congo) qui plaide pour une « foresterie communautaire »1 à travers laquelle les communautés ont le droit de gérer les ressources forestières dont elles dépendent, en vue d’améliorer leurs conditions de vie et en particulier celles des femmes.
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Targeted Study on the Role of Customary Land Formalization in Women's Economic Empowerment

Reports & Research
May, 2022
Tanzania
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
land documentation
land rights
land tenure
customary land rights
women
This report presents the results of a mixed-methods study on the role of customary land documentation in strengthening Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE). The overarching purpose was to help fill critical knowledge gaps on if and how strengthening women’s land rights via formalized customary land documentation affects their empowerment and economic growth, with a specific focus on women’s access to credit and other financial services, land investments and income opportunities.
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Acceso de las mujeres a la tierra y la propiedad en Panamá

Reports & Research
September, 2022
Panama
Land & Gender
gender equity in access to land
land tenure
women
Esta publicación busca paliar la situación del acceso de las mujeres a la tierra y a la propiedad analizando la situación de la historia de la propiedad de la tierra en Panamá considerando la normativa existente, el tipo de producción agropecuaria, y la condición e intereses de las mujeres con respecto a la propiedad y titularidad de la tierra.
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Land and labour

Agricultural workers’ tenure rights

Manuals & Guidelines
August, 2021
Global
VGGT
land governance
land policies
land rights
land tenure
women
Land and labour rights can intersect in multiple ways. Investments in large-scale plantations often entail trade-offs between job creation and compressions of land rights. Also, labour relations can involve tenure dimensions, for example where estate managers sublet plots for workers to complement wages with food production for their family or local markets.
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Barreras de acceso de la mujer rural a crédito, programas asociativos y a la formalización de la tierra en el Norte del Cauca y el Sur del Tolima

Reports & Research
April, 2015
Latin America and the Caribbean, Colombia
Land & Gender
land access
right of access
formal tenure
women
En vista de la desigualdad en el acceso a la tierra y a servicios sociales en Colombia que afecta a las mujeres rurales, y de la baja participación de mujeres en programas del Ministerio de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural (MADR) y del Banco Agrario, el MADR solicitó a USAID y al Programa de Tierras y Desarrollo Rural (PTDR) de Tetra Tech ARD, realizar un estudio para entender cuáles son los cuellos de botella que afectan principalmente a las mujeres para acceder a los diferentes programas del Ministerio y del Banco Agrario.
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How can women and people from vulnerable groups be encouraged to take a more active part in the SLLC process?

Reports & Research
July, 2017
Ethiopia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Forest Tenure
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
women
land
tenure security
This summary of LIFTs Strategy to Effectively Engage Women and Vulnerable Groups During SLLC assesses the engagement of women and vulnerable groups (VGs) during the second level land certification (SLLC) PROCESS and how best to involve women and VGs to ensure their involvement and tenure security..This resource was published in the frame of the Land Investment for Transformation (LIFT) Programme.