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Problema de acesso à terra no Sul Global: Efeitos do uso consuetudinário e da lei da terra na redução de acesso das mulheres às terras cultiváveis na Guiné-bissau

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2023
Africa, Guinea-Bissau
Land & Gender
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
customary law
agriculture
customary land rights
customary tenure
women
Este tem como objetivo analisar os efeitos de uso consuetudinário e inaplicabilidade da Lei 5/98, e se tais fatores contribuem para a redução de acessoàs terras cultiváveispelas mulheres inseridas na agricultura de subsistência na Guiné-Bissau. O problema fundiário é uma preocupação global, tendo início na transição do sistema econômico feudal, quando um grupo minoritário detentor do poder controlava os meios de produção.
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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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Women’s land rights: Customary rules and formal laws in the pastoral areas of Ethiopia – complementary or in conflict?

July, 2021
Ethiopia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Forest Tenure
Land & Investments
land tenure
poverty
food security
resilience
women
land
families
rural areas
agriculture
Secure land tenure is key to eradicating poverty;increasing agricultural investment and ensuring food security;and is an essential element of climate action and climate resilience. Yet women have far weaker rights to land than men. These disadvantages exist broadly and with few exceptions globally and are especially limiting to the well-being of women and their families in rural areas;where land is the basis for livelihood;identity;social standing and social security.
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BRIEF: GENDER AND LAND RIGHTS

Reports & Research
December, 2021
Global
Land & Gender
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
poverty
agriculture
land rights
land tenure
land tenure systems
landowners
women
Gender and land rights are closely intertwined with each other. Globally, more than 400 million women work in agriculture. Women comprise 43 percent of the agricultural labor force in developing countries, yet they account for less than 20 percent of landholders (FAO 2011). These disparities are even higher in some regions. In Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, 60 to 70 percent of employed women work in agriculture, with similar rates of land ownership (that is, less than 20 percent).
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Can group farms outperform individual family farms? Empirical insights from India

Journal Articles & Books
August, 2018
Southern Asia, India
agriculture
leases
group tenure arrangements
smallholders
women
Is there an alternative model to small family farming that could provide sustainable livelihoods to millions of resource-constrained and often non-viable smallholders in developing countries? Could group farming constitute such an alternative, wherein smallholders voluntarily pool land, labour and capital to create larger farms that they manage collectively?
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Nepal: Land for Landless Peasants

Comments and Recommendations on Amendment to the Lands Act 1964

Reports & Research
October, 2019
Nepal
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
development
land law
land reform
land distribution
agriculture
land rights
landlessness
indigenous peoples' land rights
women
ABSTRACTED FROM OVERVIEW:

The Lands Act 1964 was the first comprehensive piece of legislation which came into existence to pave the way for land reform. Key objectives of the Act were a) enhancing the standard of living of people dependent on land including through ensuring “equitable distribution of agricultural land”; and b) securing rapid economic development and wellbeing of the general population through attaining optimum agricultural growth.
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Investing in rural youth in the Near East, North Africa, Europe and Central Asia

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2019
Africa, Northern Africa, Central Asia, Western Asia, Europe
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
agriculture
food security
land access
land tenure
land tenure
land tenure systems
rural population
women
youth
Countries of the Near East, North Africa, Europe and Central Asia (NEN) region face a myriad of social, economic and political challenges that have stalled their structural and rural transformation processes. This has had a detrimental impacton rural youth, who, as a result, face limited economic opportunities. The NEN region has the highest youth unemployment rates in the world. Weak education systems are failing to provide youth, especially in rural areas, with the cognitive and non-cognitive skills they need to compete in a global economy.
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The rural youth situation in Latin America and the Caribbean

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2019
Latin America and the Caribbean
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
agriculture
food security
land access
land tenure
land tenure
land tenure systems
migration
rural population
women
youth
This article offers a general picture of the situation of rural youth in Latin America and the Caribbean(LAC). The population is described through its demographic dynamics, its socio-economiccharacteristics, the situation of priority groups (women and indigenous peoples) and subjects ofinterest for these particular population groups (use of IT, sexual and reproductive health, violence andsocial participation).
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Governing Tenure Rights to Commons: A guide to support the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2016
Global
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
Land, Climate Change & Environment
agriculture
Indigenous Peoples
land access
land governance
land rights
land tenure
land use
women
The Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (FAO, 2012 – referred to in this guide as ‘the Guidelines’) were unanimously adopted by the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) in 2012, with subsequent broad international recognition and support. Their strength rests on the unique inclusive and participatory process through which they were developed.
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Women and Land in Pakistan

Reports & Research
December, 2017
Pakistan
Land & Gender
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
land law
agriculture
land rights
control rights
land ownership
women
Women have largely been excluded from the ownership and control of land in Pakistan, which is the single most important source of income and status in the agricultural economy. This systematic exclusion stems from multiple factors at both the policy and societal level, which include multiple and contradictory sources of law that fail to resolve the issue of women’s right to property as well as cultural bias and discriminatory practices that arise from the prevalent male-dominant mindset in rural areas.