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Dossier Mujeres Rurales en Colombia

Revista Controversia

Journal Articles & Books
October, 2022
Latin America and the Caribbean, Colombia
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
agriculture
women
Las mujeres del mundo rural están mucho más expuestas que las del urbano a la sobrecarga que las tradiciones de división sexual del trabajo les han impuesto. Su papel en la reproducción social es invisibilizado por la subvaloración “del trabajo reproductivo, productivo y para el autoconsumo” (Fao, 2017, p. 1) y por su baja posibilidad de participación política institucional.
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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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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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Gender, Property Rights and Responsibility for Farming in Kerala

January, 2004
India
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
women
property rights
land reform
property
agriculture
occupation
women
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Feminization of Agriculture in China? Myths Surrounding Women’s Participation in Farming

January, 2008
China
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
Land & Gender
Land & Food Security
women
agriculture
households
land
development
environment
farmers
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Gender, agriculture and rural development in Georgia

Reports & Research
December, 2018
Georgia
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
development
rural development
food security
agricultural and rural legislation
land policies
rural areas
agricultural land management
agriculture
women
FAO is committed to reducing gender inequalities through its interventions, and this gender assessment has been produced as part of its broader efforts to generate evidence and knowledge in compliance with its Policy on Gender Equality. This assessment highlights the challenges, gaps and practices in the area of gender and agriculture and rural development in Georgia that need to be considered by policy-makers and project managers in their decision-making and their implementation of development interventions. The main gender inequalities in Georgia are reiterated in this assessment.
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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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Country Partnership Strategy: Tajikistan, 2016–2020

Sector Assessment (Summary): Agriculture And Natural Resources

Policy Papers & Briefs
December, 2016
Tajikistan
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
Land, Climate Change & Environment
food security
land reform
climate change
natural disasters
arable land
agriculture
natural resources
natural resources management
water management
migration
women
Tajikistan’s population is predominantly rural and largely dependent on agriculture. Agriculture accounts for a quarter of Tajikistan’s gross domestic product and export revenues, 39% of tax revenues, and half of total employment. Given the widespread migration of male Tajik workers overseas, women constitute the majority of employees (accounting for 53% of the economically active population in agriculture). Arable land is in short supply at 0.15 hectares (ha) per capita (rising to 0.20 ha per capita for the rural population).
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Effects of Women Land Rights on Agricultural Outcomes in Rwanda

Vol 2, No 1: March 2019, Special Issue on Women&Land

Peer-reviewed publication
March, 2019
Rwanda
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
food security
farming systems
agriculture
land rights
farmers
women
This study examines the effect of land rights on agricultural outcomes in Rwanda. We characterize the effects of land rights from two perspectives. The first one is land rights indicated by the right to sell and guarantee land and the second one is land titling. The agricultural outcomes include agricultural productivity, food security and nutritional diversity. From the results, land rights are found to have a positive relationship with all the outcome variables. The effect of land rights on agricultural productivity is larger if the household head is male.