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Land Reform: Still a Goal Worth Pursuing for Rural Women?

January, 2002
Land & Food Security
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
land reform
women
agriculture
points
food security
women
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Trade Liberalization: Impacts on African Women

Reports & Research
August, 2001
Mozambique, Egypt, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, Mali, Somalia, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Sierra Leone, Western Asia, Western Africa, Global, Eastern Africa, Northern Africa, Southern Africa
Land & Gender
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Food Security
environment
land rights
food security
women
Trade liberalisation processes impact differently on men and women due to the fact that men and women have different roles in production. Despite the fact that women are actively involved in international trade, WTO agreements are gender blind and as such have adverse impacts on women. The General Agreement in Trade and Service (GATS), for instance, provides for a level playing field in service provision between big foreign owned companies and small locally owned companies.
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Farming assets in North Wälo: statistics, maps and impressions from a travel to North Wälo, October 2000

January, 2002
Ethiopia, Sub-Saharan Africa
Land & Food Security
food security
land tenure
The report is based on information collected in the aftermath of the 1999 famine. It presents some basic information on North Wälo, as well as relevant impressions from the authors journey. Statistics from the Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Commission show that all of North Wälo is exposed to famine, but the picture varies much from year to year.
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From relief to recovery: rebuilding Afghanistan

January, 2002
Land & Food Security
food security
land tenure
This issue focuses on the economic, social and instiutional restructuring required in Afghanistan to achieve food security and justice.The major areas of action required include:the revival of Afghan agricultureaffirmative actions to restore Afghan women’s rightseducation to develop human capital The articles included are:From relief to recovery: rebuilding AfghanistanTribal strengths can help manage common landHungry for learning: food for education programmes
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Healing the scars? Tracing links between environment, food and conflict in Africa

January, 2002
Mozambique, Ethiopia, Namibia, Sub-Saharan Africa
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
Land & Food Security
deforestation
food security
land
environment
A University of Leeds collaborative study has probed links between environmental change and famine – two problems perceived to lie at the heart of Africa’s current crisis – in the context of another all too often linked to the continent - warfare and civil unrest. Land hunger and environmental depletion in the aftermath of war are often cited as causes of famine that in turn will lead to further conflict. Is such a chain reaction really at work? Is there an inevitable causal link between environmental degradation and violent conflict?
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Gender and soil fertility in Uganda: a comparison of soil fertility indicators on women’s and men’s agricultural plots

January, 2002
Sub-Saharan Africa
Land & Gender
Land & Food Security
food security
land tenure
land
land management
agriculture
women
The study was conducted to determine whether the gender difference in wealth and land allocation between male and female farmers in male-headed households is manifested in soil fertility indicators. It determined chemical fertility levels (fertility indicators) in the composite topsoil samples from 5 woman-owned plots and 5 man-owned plots in Ntanzi village, Uganda, on a Rhodic Ferralsol. A similar study was conducted on 8 woman-owned and 8 man-owned plots in Buggala Island, Uganda, on a Ferralic Arenosol.
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Land tenure and rural development

January, 2002
Land & Gender
Land & Food Security
development
land
land tenure
food security
poverty
rural development
property
tenants
women
The purpose of this guide is to provide support to those who are assessing and designing appropriate responses to food insecurity and rural development situations. This guide aims to show where and why land tenure is an important issue in food security and sustainable rural livelihoods. The main objective of these guidelines is to provide detailed suggestions for consideration of land tenure issues in rural development policy.
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Challenging conventional wisdom: smallholder perceptions of land access and tenure security in the Cotton Belt of Mozambique

Reports & Research
January, 2002
Sub-Saharan Africa, Mozambique
Land & Food Security
food security
land
land access
land tenure
perception of tenure security
A new land law went into effect in January 1998 in Mozambique. The impetus behind these actions was the belief that a new legal and regulatory framework was necessary to reduce the frequency of land conflicts between largeholders and smallholders while simultaneously promoting much-needed investment in the agricultural sector.With empirical evidence presented in this report, based on smallholder survey data collected from 1994 to 1996, the authors challenge widely held beliefs about land tenure and access in the smallholder sector in Mozambique.
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Global water outlook to 2025: averting an impending crisis

January, 2002
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Food Security
environment
food security
IFPRI and IWMI's report uses computer modeling to project water demand and availability through to 2025 and predicts the likely impact of changes in water policy and investment, making specific recommendations for specific locations around the globe.The report argues that if current water policies continue, farmers will find it difficult to meet the world’s food needs. Hardest hit will be the world’s poorest people.
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Land tenure and land conflict in the South Pacific

January, 2001
Fiji, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea, Micronesia, Oceania, Sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Asia
Forest Tenure
Land & Food Security
forestry
land
food security
land tenure
The paper is a desk study prepared as a basis for discussion and further field research into land tenure and conflict in the region.The first section provides an overview of land tenure and land utilization issues. This section includes an analysis of gender and other demographic issues as they relate to land tenure and access to natural resources.