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    A Case Study of Small-Scale Farmers in Chenena Village, Chibombo District, Central Zambia

    Peer-reviewed publication
    January, 2002
    Zambia

    The paper shows that most women in Zambia and especially in the study area suffer from insecurity in land since they do not have secure title to land under customary tenure. The results from the research which was carried out using semi structured interviews with 34 female farmers show that the majority of women farmers (62%) were not allocated land directly by headmen but got land through a male contact.

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    January, 2002
    India, Central Asia, Southern Asia

    Do women have effective land rights in practice? Research and policy have only recently begun to engage with the need for women to have independent rights to fields of their own. What needs to be done? Four areas for action are identified with associated strategies: improve women's claims on private land (e. g. through gender equal inheritance laws); improve women's access to public land (e.g. through land reform schemes); improve women's access to land via the market (e.g. through subsidised credit); and improve the viability of women's farming efforts (e.g.

  3. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 2002
    Caribbean, Central America, South America, Peru

    What is the condition of women in Peru? This gender profile by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) offers a statistical overview of the condition of urban and rural women with respect to unemployment, status in the workplace, life expectancy and working and living conditions. Poverty is an ongoing concern and half the population continues to subsist below the poverty line. Rural women suffer the most with lower rates of literacy and fewer employment opportunities than urban women and men in general.

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2001
    Slovenia, Liechtenstein, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Australia, Germany, Poland, Macao S.A.R, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Eastern Europe, Eastern Asia

    The topic of gender relations in the context of conflict covers highly sensitive terrain, not only within the war-torn society, but for intervening institutions. Like other international humanitarian agencies, Oxfam Great Britain (GB) has faced difficult questions about whether its presence has sometimes done more harm than good. External agencies also have to ask themselves whether their interventions impact negatively on women and gender relations.

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    evolution of land tenure institutions in Western Ghana and Sumatra

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2001
    Western Africa, South-Eastern Asia, Africa, Asia, Indonesia, Ghana

    This research report examines three questions that are central to IFPRI research: How do property-rights institutions affect efficiency and equity? How are resources allocated within households? Why does this matter from a policy perspective? As part of a larger multicountry study on property rights to land and trees, this study focuses on the evolution from customary land tenure with communal ownership toward individualized rights, and how this shift affects women and men differently.This study’s key contribution is its multilevel econometric analysis of efficiency and equity issues.

  6. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2001
    Mexico

    ¿Qué derechos tienen las mujeres rurales al recurso tierra? Estos derechos, ¿son definidos por el Estado o por los usos y costumbres de la comunidad? ¿Qué papel ha jugado la legislación agraria para garantizar el derecho de las mujeres a la tierra? ¿Cuáles son los factores más determinantes (legales o de otro tipo) en el acceso de las mujeres a este recurso?

  7. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2001
    Venezuela

    En los años noventa la intervención estatal en la agricultura latinoamericana se concentró en los programas de titulación de predios (TIERRA), diseñados para promover la seguridad de tenencia y fortalecer los mercados de tierras. Un examen de siete de estos programas sugiere que con frecuencia se diseñaron sin prestar atención suficiente a los códigos civiles y los regímenes matrimoniales que protegen los derechos de propiedad de las mujeres. Muchas veces ignoraron que en un hogar la tierra puede formar parte de tres tipos de propiedad: la de la esposa, del esposo y el patrimonio común.

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