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Large-scale land deals in Sierra Leone at the intersection of gender and lineage

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2018
Sierra Leone, Africa
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
dispossession
land deals
women
There is wide engagement with large-scale land deals in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly from the perspectives of development and international political economy. Recently, scholars have increasingly pointed to a gendered lacuna in this literature. Engagement with gender tends to focus on potential differential impacts for men and women, and it also flags the need for more detailed empirical research of specific land deals.
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Negotiating and implementing large scale land deals in Sierra Leone

Improving transparency and consent

Policy Papers & Briefs
July, 2019
Sierra Leone
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
land deals
land dispute resolution
land grabbing
land investments
land tenure
leases
research
women
Investment into large-scale agribusiness projects in African post-conflict states is framed within broader economic reforms. On their surface, these projects boast of attracting much-needed infrastructure development, providing employment and shifts from subsistence agriculture to formal wage labor, and raising GDP.
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The dark underbelly of land struggles: the instrumentalization of female activism and emotional resistance in Cambodia

Journal Articles & Books
November, 2018
Asia, Cambodia
Land in post-conflict settings
eviction
land deals
land rights
land rights activists
property
women
Facing land grabs and eviction in the name of development, women worldwide increasingly join land rights struggles despite often deeply engrained images of female domesticity and conventional gender norms. Yet, the literature on female agency in the context of land struggles has remained largely underexplored. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, my findings suggest that land rights activism in Cambodia has undergone a gendered re-framing process.
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Land Grabbing in Africa. A Review of the Impacts and the Possible Policy Responses

Reports & Research
October, 2010
Africa
Land & Investments
Land & Gender
land
farmers
land deals
land grabbing
land rights
scale
women
Includes the rise of land deals in sub-Saharan Africa; land grabbing and risks for small scale farmers; land grabs: another yoke over women’s land rights?; is land grabbing threatening pastoralism?; opportunity for groups at risk: the African Union’s continental standards on the land question.
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Pan African Land Grab Hearing, Final Declaration of the Panel

Reports & Research
August, 2013
Africa
Land & Investments
Land & Gender
land deals
land
women
Having listened to the presentations, encourage communities to continue to assert their rights. Noted a failure of governance and lack of good democratic practice. Consultation processes have been abused, promises not fulfilled, women not involved in decision making, there is a critical need for greater openness and transparency in all land deals. Make a number of recommendations to African governments and calls on investors to ensure that women’s voices and interests are heard and heeded in all decision making.
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The dynamics of Land Deals in Africa

Reports & Research
February, 2017
Africa
Land & Investments
Land & Gender
land
farmers
land deals
youth
scale
women
Looking at several large-scale land deals in Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia, this documentary film highlights the nuanced impacts of these investments. Small-scale farmers and producers, national government officials, and African policy-makers unpack the deals, showing that there are winners and losers when providing investors access to large tracts of land in Africa. For example, land deals impact differently on women and youth, and altering land regimes also impacts on access to other natural resources such as water, fish, and local indigenous vegetables.
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Promises, Power, and Poverty. Corporate land deals and rural women in Africa

Reports & Research
April, 2013
Africa
Land & Investments
Land & Gender
land deals
land
poverty
women
Includes the predicaments, concerns and challenges faced by rural women – commercialization of natural resources, how rural women value land, from ‘women’s crops’ to ‘men’s crops’, plantation economies and rural women, the water factor, women are not parties to the deal. Towards solutions for rural women, invest in local food systems, women’s rights to land, build toward collective action. Conclusions and recommendations.
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Gendered impacts of commercial pressures on land

Reports & Research
January, 2011
Africa
Land & Investments
Land & Gender
land deals
land
scale
women
An analysis of the gendered impacts of commercial pressures on land, based on a review of the literature and ILC’s country case studies, including Ethiopia, Zambia, Rwanda and Benin. In the present global context of increasing pressures, women are both likely to be affected differently to men by large-scale land deals and disproportionately more likely to be negatively affected than men because they are generally vulnerable as a group.
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Gender, insecurity and large-scale land acquisitions in Northern Sierra Leone

Reports & Research
October, 2016
Africa
Land & Investments
Land & Gender
land deals
women
scale
research
land
This policy brief is based on research that examines women’s security in the context of large-scale land deals in West Africa. It focuses on Northern Sierra Leone and the impact of biofuels investment projects in Port Loko district, recommending three key changes.
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The Gender and Equity Implications of Land-Related Investments on Land access, Labour and Income-Generating Opportunities

A Case Study of Selected Agricultural Investments in Zambia

Reports & Research
December, 2013
Africa, Zambia
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
agricultural and rural legislation
agricultural land management
land deals
women
In recent years, Zambia has witnessed increased interest from private investors in acquiring land for

agriculture. As elsewhere, large-scale land acquisitions are often accompanied with promises of capital

investments to build infrastructure, bring new technologies and know-how, create employment, and

improve market access, among other benefits. But agricultural investments create risks as well as

opportunities, for instance in relation to loss of land for family farmers. While much debate on ‘land