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Gender equality and food security

Women's empowerment as a tool agains hunger

Reports & Research
January, 2013
Asia, China, Cambodia, Philippines, Bangladesh, India
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
Land, Climate Change & Environment
food security
hunger
climate change
local communities
women
Fonte: FAO
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Gender, Presence and Representation: Can Presence Alone Make for Effective Representation?

Journal Articles & Books
March, 2023
India
Land & Gender
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
One of the earliest demands of Indian women’s organisations in the pre-Independence period was the right to be elected to legislative bodies. Yet, almost a century later, a vast gender gap persists in terms of women’s presence at all levels of governance. Why is it important to include women in political and policy decision-making bodies, beyond the issue of equality? Do women representatives necessarily represent women’s interests? Indeed, how do we define women’s interests and how can they be represented best? And how much presence makes for effective representation?
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Property rights, intersectionality, and women’s empowerment in Nepal

Reports & Research
December, 2018
Nepal
Land & Gender
gender equity in access to land
environment
property rights
women
In this paper, we explore how different norms around property rights affect the empowerment of women of different social positions over the life cycle. We first review the conceptual foundations of property, empowerment, and intersectionality, and then present the methodology and empirical findings from ethnographic field work in Nepal. Going beyond formal ownership of property, we look at changes in property rights over personal and joint property at different stages of women’s lives.
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The Voluntary Guidelines: Securing our rights - Mongolia

Reports & Research
January, 2019
Africa, Mongolia
VGGT
land governance
development
food security
fisheries
agriculture
natural resources
land tenure
FAO’s Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGGT) were endorsed by the Committee on World Food Security in May 2012. These Voluntary Guidelines have been described as a catalyst leading to improvements in the conditions under which land is held or occupied in the agriculture sectors. The Guidelines address problems of weak governance of tenure and the growing pressure on natural resources, thereby assisting countries to achieve food security for all.
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Webinar Report: Land in Post-Conflict Settings

Reports & Research
June, 2019
Uganda, Myanmar, Global
Land in post-conflict settings
land administration
cadastral administration
land governance
post-conflict settings
customary law
environment
natural resources management
land acquisitions
compulsory acquisitions
land grabbing
displacement
dispossession
land conflicts
land dispute
customary land rights
customary tenure
Post-war societies not only have to deal with continuing unpeaceful relations but also land-related conflict legacies, farmland and forest degradation, heavily exploited natural resources, land mines, a destroyed infrastructure, as well as returning refugees and ex-combatants. In the aftermath of war, access to and control of land often remains a sensitive issue which may precipitate tensions and lead to a renewed destabilization of volatile post-conflict situations.