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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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Gender-responsive Restoration Opportunities Assessment Methodology (ROAM): Engendering national forest landscape restoration assessments

Policy Papers & Briefs
August, 2018
Global
Forest Landscape Restoration
environment
forest conservation
forest land
land governance
land use
legal empowerment
local communities
sustainable development
women
The forest landscape restoration (FLR) approach is a forward-looking and dynamic approach that strengthens landscape resilience while creating opportunities to optimise ecosystem goods and services to meet livelihood needs. The equitable and active involvement of all stakeholders in FLR decision making, goal setting and implementation is fundamental.
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Empowering women to achieve food security

Policy Papers & Briefs
August, 2001
Global
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
agricultural land management
capacity development
farmers
food security
rural development
sustainable development
women
Women play important roles as producers of food, managers of natural resources, income earners, and caretakers of household food and nutrition security. Giving women the same access to physical and human resources as men could increase agricultural productivity, just as increases in women’s education and improvements in women’s status over the past quarter century have contributed to more than half of the reduction in the rate of child malnutrition.
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Do discriminatory social institutions matter for food security?

Policy Papers & Briefs
February, 2012
Global
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
agricultural land management
capacity development
food security
gender equity in access to land
rural areas
rural development
women
In view of the 2012 United Nations Commission on the Status of Women’s thematic focus on rural women’s empowerment, the gender team at the Development Centre has launched an issues paper, “Do discriminatory social institutions matter for food security?”.
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Transforming the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil for greater gender equality and women’s empowerment

Policy Papers & Briefs
May, 2016
Global
Land & Gender
gender equity in access to land
land rights
legal empowerment
palm oil industries
women
Gender issues are relegated to the periphery in current debates and approaches concerning the sustainable governance of oil palm in Indonesia. However, ongoing research by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) points to the critical roles that women play as workers, smallholders and members of affected local communities. Gender inequities follow as oil palm expansion displaces local women from land on which they cultivate food crops.
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Making Rangelands Secure Bulletin No. 5

Policy Papers & Briefs
May, 2014
Global
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
common property
extractive industries
food security
Indigenous Peoples
land governance
land policies
land rights
legal empowerment
natural resources management
pastoralists
research
women
News, views and experiences of policy makers, practitioners, academics and communities on making rangelands more secure.
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SECURING WOMEN’S LAND AND PROPERTY RIGHTS

A critical step to address HIV, Violence and Food Security

Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2014
Global
women
land governance
land policies
food security
legal empowerment
advocacy
natural resources management
gender equity in access to land

In many parts of the world, women’s rights to land and property are systematically denied. Women have fewer or less secure rights than men, and discriminatory attitudes and practices undermine them. This leaves many women vulnerable, and almost entirely dependent on the men in their lives for basic economic survival.
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UNDP Land Policy Briefs call for more research to address knowledge gaps on gender relations in land practices

Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2008
Global
farmers
women
landlessness
agrarian reform
land rights
agriculture
rural development
land policies
natural resources management
gender equity in access to land
environment
research
[via UNDP, 2008] These 4 Policy Briefs from UNDP show how increasing knowledge about gender relations and empowerment has highlighted the importance of access to and control over land within intra-household gender relations, and what this implies for broader concerns about empowerment of the poor. Moreover, significant knowledge gaps are also found in discussions on the link between land policies and cultural, territorial and gender empowerment issues.
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How to engage with the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)

ILC Infonote

Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2012
Global
women
land rights
land policies
advocacy
gender equity in access to land
The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) is an intergovernmental body and functional commission of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) mandated to promote gender equality and the advancement of women. The fifty-sixth session of the CSW, which takes place at the UN Headquarters in New York from 27 February to 9 March 2012, will focus on the theme “The empowerment of rural women and their role in poverty and hunger eradication, development and current challenges”.
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Women’s Access to Legal Information - By Vivien Savath

Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2011
Global
women
legal empowerment
gender equity in access to land