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National gender profile of agriculture and rural livelihoods: The Republic of Azerbaijan

Reports & Research
September, 2022
Azerbaijan
Land & Gender
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
rural development
rural areas
agricultural land management
agriculture
rural population
women
This country gender assessment (CGA) for the Republic of Azerbaijan was undertaken as part of FAO and national commitments to promote gender equality while integrating a gender perspective into its operations. The resulting CGA report focuses on the intersections of gender, agriculture and rural development, and presents a snapshot of critical gender-based inequalities and their consequences for agricultural production and rural livelihoods in Azerbaijan.
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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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Gender, Agriculture and Rural Development in Uzbekistan

Reports & Research
December, 2019
Uzbekistan
Land & Gender
Land, Climate Change & Environment
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
rural development
climate change
farmland
farming systems
agriculture
women
Gender equality is a key to eliminating poverty and hunger, as it has been demonstrated by the FAO throughout its research worldwide. As part of the FAO efforts on generating evidence and knowledge, and in compliance with the FAO Policy on Gender Equality, the purpose of the Country Gender Assessment for Uzbekistan is to contribute to the production of knowledge for better informed, targeted and gender sensitive actions in agriculture and rural development.
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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.
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Technology for Land Governance: Ensuring that Women Benefit from the Revolution

Vol 3, No 1: March 2020, Special Issue 2 on Land Policy in Africa

Peer-reviewed publication
March, 2020
Africa
Land & Gender
land administration
land governance
women
Innovative technologies for land governance can promote clear land tenure and effective land administration, reduce corruption, and support economic growth. Mobile technologies offer real-time access to information and open communication between people and government services. These technologies are revolutionizing land governance around the world; however, without additional steps to ensure that women and men equitably benefit from the technology revolution, the application of these technologies may amplify the preexisting inequalities that women face.
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GENDER-BASED LAND ACCES AND WELLBEING IN CAMEROON

Vol 2, No 2: May 2019

Peer-reviewed publication
May, 2019
Cameroon
Land & Gender
poverty
land
women
The aim of this paper is to highlight the determinants of women land access in Cameron and appreciate its effects on wellbeing trough income and consumption. We use the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to capture land access determinants and a Simultaneous Equations Model (SEM) to put on evidence the implications on wellbeing in Cameroon.
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Slow, stealthy and steady – capacity development to address land tenure issues in development programmes: experiences of the IFAD/GLTN TSLI-ESA Project

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

Peer-reviewed publication
March, 2019
Africa
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
development
rural areas
land tenure
tenure security
youth
women
Land and natural resource tenure security is a central yet often neglected area for economic development and poverty reduction in the developing world. Land is fundamental to the lives of poor rural people. It is a source of food, shelter, income and social identity. Secure access to land reduces vulnerability to hunger and poverty. There are some 1.3 billion extremely poor people in the world, struggling to survive on less than US$1.25 a day, and close to a billion continue to suffer from chronic under-nourishment.
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The Influences of Gendered Customary Land Tenure System on Food Security in Nandom District, Ghana

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

Peer-reviewed publication
March, 2019
Ghana
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
food security
land tenure
customary tenure
households
women
Food insecurity has been a major global development concern. Hence, SDG Two seeks to achieve Zero Hunger by 2030. The situation is severe in sub-Saharan Africa, where customary practices deprive women of land ownership and limit their access rights. This paper explores the influences of a gendered land tenure system on food security in Nandom District, adapting conditional assessment modules defined by USDA and FAO. With a list of households categorized under headship, 30 respondents were proportionally selected from each of the four study communities.
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Assessing the challanges of women's land rights in Tanznia

Vol 3, No 1: March 2020, Special Issue 2 on Land Policy in Africa

Peer-reviewed publication
March, 2020
Africa
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
land governance
land policies
land rights
land tenure
women
The purpose of this study is to explore the challenges of women on land rights, in Tanzania customary practices often required woman to access land through their fathers, brothers, husbands or other men who control the land, so this makes women vulnerable and decreases agricultural productivity. When women loses their connection to this male relative, either through death, divorce or migration, they can lose their land, home and means of supporting themselves and their families.
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CULTIVATING GENDER INSENSITIVE LAND TENURE REFORMS AND HARVESTING FOOD INSECURITY IN CAMEROON, SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

Vol 3, No 1: January 2020, Special Issue 1 on Land Policy in Africa

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2020
Africa
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
food security
land access
land tenure
tenure security
women
Effective reform pathways for addressing women’s access to land and tenure security in Africa are yet to be found despite their role in feeding the population. With the adoption of the AU Declaration on Land Issues and Challenges in Africa (2009) and the launch of the African Land Policy Centre (2017), hopes were high that existing precarious women’s access to land, tenure and food security might be transformed to opportunities. Prevailing discourses, however, still advocate for land reforms attuned to gender equality with a neo-classical chord.