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Supporting an enabling legal environment for women’s empowerment in food and agriculture

Policy Papers & Briefs
September, 2021
Global
Land & Food Security
food security
agriculture
land rights
legal empowerment
women
Empowerment is the “expansion of people’s ability to make strategic life choices”. According to the UN, women’s empowerment has five components: women’s sense of self-worth; their right to have and to determine choices; their right to have access to opportunities and resources; their right to have the power to control their own lives, both within and outside the home; and their ability to influence the direction of social change to create a more just social and economic order, nationally and internationally.
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How UK institutional investors finance the global land grab - Document

UK pension funds and asset managers found to be investing at least £37.3bn in companies involved in, or associated with, large-scale land acquisitions, according to a new report commissioned by Friends of the Earth.

Reports & Research
January, 2014
Global
Land & Investments
agriculture
extractive industries
cadastres
common property
land conflicts
farmers
food security
Indigenous Peoples
land governance
land grabbing
land policies
land rights
legal empowerment
natural resources management
property law
research
rural development
land area
land markets
Friends of the Earth’s report, ‘What’s your pension funding? How UK institutional investors finance the global land grab’, highlights the investments of UK institutional investors, such as British Airways Pension Fund, Legal & General and Standard Life, in companies accused of grabbing land, destroying the environment, and undermining sustainable livelihoods.
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How the world is paving the way for corporate land grabs - Publication - ActionAid

Reports & Research
January, 2014
Global
Land & Investments
advocacy
agrarian reform
agriculture
extractive industries
cadastres
capacity development
climate change
common property
land conflicts
desertification
environment
farmers
fisheries
food security
forestry
gender equity in access to land
Indigenous Peoples
land governance
land grabbing
land policies
land rights
landlessness
legal empowerment
local communities
natural resources management
pastoralists
property law
research
rural development
land area
land markets
women
"For millions of people living in the world’s poorest countries, access to land is a matter not of wealth, but of survival, identity and belonging. Most of the 1.4 billion people earning less than US$1.25 a day live in rural areas and depend largely on agriculture for their livelihoods, while an estimated 2.5 billion people are involved in full- or part-time smallholder agriculture.
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Sharp rise in environmental and land killings as pressure on planet’s resources increases – report

THE DRAMATIC RISE IN KILLINGS OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND LAND DEFENDERS

Reports & Research
January, 2014
Global
Land & Investments
farmers
local communities
pastoralists
landlessness
agrarian reform
agriculture
land grabbing
property law
extractive industries
fisheries
rural development
land policies
land area
land markets
food security
climate change
legal empowerment
land conflicts
natural resources management
environment
research
desertification
Urgent action required to challenge impunity of perpetrators, protect citizens and address root causes of environmental crisis
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New ActionAid report documents the adverse effect of land grabs on rural women

'Lay of the land: Improving land governance to stop land grabs' argues that land grabbing can deprive rural women and communities of their livelihoods and land, increasing their food insecurity

Global
Land & Investments
farmers
local communities
women
landlessness
land rights
agriculture
land grabbing
rural development
land policies
extractive industries
food security
legal empowerment
natural resources management
gender equity in access to land
[adapted from ActionAid] October, 2012- The report states that the importance of land to rural women goes beyond growing food. Having secure access to, and independent control over, land can mean the difference between, on the one hand, enjoying rights such as education and freedom from violence or, on the other, continual subjugation in society. ActionAid view security of land tenure for impoverished rural communities as a fundamental component of dignified, sustainable development and a crucial step towards reducing poverty and reducing inequality.
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Toward sustainable livelihoods after war: reconstituting rural land tenure systems

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2008
Global
farmers
landlessness
agrarian reform
land rights
agriculture
common property
land policies
food security
legal empowerment
land conflicts
capacity development
Toward sustainable livelihoods after war:
Reconstituting rural land tenure systems. Jon Unruh 2008. 32 103-115