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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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    Strengthening women’s voices in the context of agricultural investments: Lessons from Kenya

    Reports & Research
    July, 2016
    Kenya, Africa
    Land & Gender
    land
    research
    customary law
    women

    Primary aim is to provide a backdrop on relevant policies and practice, and to inform practitioners, policy makers and researchers about key governance issues relevant to the strengthening of women’s empowerment in community land stewardship and accountability in agricultural investments. Conducted in April 2016 on selected communities in Tana River County, providing an in-depth case study of the application of statutory and customary laws affecting women’s access to and management of land. Concludes that implementation of gender equality provisions has been weak overall.

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    Islamic Inheritance Laws and their impact on rural women. A synthesis of studies from Asia and West Africa and emerging recommendations

    Reports & Research
    August, 2016
    Africa
    Land & Gender
    property
    customary law
    rural areas
    women

    Analyses inheritance laws and their impacts on rural women in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Senegal, Togo and Mali. Focuses on Muslim societies, but also looks at how these differed from or influenced the inheritance practices of non-Muslim groups. Shows that women continue to be systematically denied their rights to inheritance, especially in rural areas.

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    Land and Governance under Fifth Scheduled Areas-An Overview of the law

    Journal Articles & Books
    February, 2016
    India
    Forest Tenure
    Indigenous & Community Land Rights
    Land & Food Security
    customary law
    community forestry
    common lands
    community land rights
    land tenure systems
    customary tenure
    indigenous people's tenure
    common property
    Indigenous Peoples
    women

    This book made an attempt to bring together various legislative protections available to the tribals communities pertaining to the land and governance in the scheduled areas and the role of different institutions to achieve the goals enshrined in the Constitution. It examined the Fifth Schedule of the Constitution and its various provisions and special arrangements made for areas inhabited by Scheduled Tribes and the law relating to local self governance in these areas, primarily through village panchayat-an institution of local self governance.

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    ATELIER 5 : LES DIFFICULTES D’ACCES DES FEMMES À LA TERRE ET AUX RESSOURCES NATURELLES

    Synthèse d'Atelier 5- Forum Mondial Sur L'Accès à La Terre

    Conference Papers & Reports
    January, 2017
    Global
    customary law
    land ownership
    land rights
    women

     

    Partout dans le monde, l’immense majorité des femmes fait face à des conditions d’accès et de contrôle de la terre et des ressources naturelles inégales à celles des hommes.

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    WORKSHOP 5: THE DIFFICULTIES OF WOMEN’S ACCESS TO LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES

    Workshop 5 Synthesis - World Forum on Access to Land

    Conference Papers & Reports
    January, 2017
    Global
    customary law
    land ownership
    land rights
    women

     

    Throughout the world, the vast majority of women are faced with conditions of access to land and control of land and natural resources that are unequal to those of men.

    Social relations have trivialized the fact that they are entirely in charge of domestic work and the education of children, which prevents them from devoting themselves as much as men to agricultural activities. In the fields, they are the forced laborers of the family and take on the often less valued tasks, considered as part of their domestic obligations. As a result, they generally receive no income.

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    “As a husband I will love, lead, and provide:” Gendered access to land in Ghana

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2016
    Western Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa, Ghana
    Land & Gender
    women
    land rights
    customary land rights
    land tenure systems
    customary law
    farmers

    Improving women’s access to land is high on the agricultural policy agenda of both governmental and non-governmental agencies. Yet, the determinants and rationale of gendered access to land are not well understood. This paper argues that gender relations are more than the outcomes of negotiations within households. It explains the importance of social norms, perceptions, and formal and informal rules shaping access to land for male and female farmers at four levels: (1) the household/family, (2) the community, (3) the state, and (4) the market. The framework is applied to Ghana.

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