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  1. Library Resource
    Legislation & Policies
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 2008
    Global

    [September 2008]


    Within this report, the FAO outlines its efforts to reinforce local institutions and promote policies and legislation that aim for fairer access for both women and men to natural resources (particularly land, water, fishing and forestry) and to the relevant economic and social resources.


    It goes on to approach the reasons why land tenure should be taken into account in project design, highlighting ecological issues, questions of gender, conflict and migrations, and the relationships between them.

  2. Library Resource
    Latin America and the Caribbean

    Los documentos presentados se refieren a un estudio desarrollado en el marco de una iniciativa interagencial — Organización de las Naciones Unidas para las Mujeres (ONU-Mujeres), la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricoltura (FAO) — liderada por ONU-Mujeres acerca del Enfoque Territorial para el Empoderamiento de las Mujeres Rurales en América Latina y el Caribe, la misma que fue coordinada por el Centro Latinoamericano para el Desarrollo Rural (RIMISP).

  3. Library Resource
    November, 2015

    This module provides guidance and a
    comprehensive menu of practical tools for integrating gender
    in the planning, design, implementation, and evaluation of
    projects and investments in climate-smart agriculture (CSA).
    The module emphasizes the importance and ultimate goal of
    integrating gender in CSA practices, which is to reduce
    gender inequalities and ensure that men and women can
    equally benefit from any intervention in the agricultural

  4. Library Resource
    Realizing Women's Rights to Land in the Law

    Information note on SDG Indicator 5.a.2

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    March, 2018
    Global

    Goal 5 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) "Achieve gender equality and empoer all women and girls" regonizes the fundamental role of women in achieving poverty reduction, food security and nutrition. Target 5.a aims to "undertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, financial services, inheritance and natural resources, in accordance with national laws".

  5. Library Resource
    Realizing Women's Rights to Land in the Law

    Information note on SDG Indicator 5.a.2

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    March, 2018
    Global

    Goal 5 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) "Achieve gender equality and empoer all women and girls" regonizes the fundamental role of women in achieving poverty reduction, food security and nutrition. Target 5.a aims to "undertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, financial services, inheritance and natural resources, in accordance with national laws".

  6. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    July, 2006
    Zimbabwe, Africa

    Covers analysis of the study sites in Seke, Buhera, Chimanimani and Bulawayo Districts, land and property rights of widows and other vulnerable women in those sites, livelihood strategies, obstacles and options, policy issues and recommendations. The study highlights the vulnerability of widows to property-rights violations.

  7. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    July, 2006
    Africa

    A serious study of a neglected field, drawing on research, workshops, and personal and organisational testimonies. Covers Eritrea, Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Aims to raise awareness of the heavy impact of HIV and AIDS on women’s property rights and livelihoods, and the active steps being taken by many grassroots organisations to respond to the crisis. Looks at a number of creative initiatives such as the Memory Book Project in Uganda.

  8. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    March, 2006
    Africa

    The focus of the workshop, funded by FAO, Oxfam GB, and Women Land Link Africa Project (WLLA), was on children’s property rights. The report covers presentations by children, key issues and inspiring initiatives by CBOs, messages from the UN to children, experiences from Zimbabwe, very moving testimonies by children, key recommendations. Following the launch of a UNICEF and UNAIDS global campaign, FAO has been initiating work in the neglected area of children’s property and inheritance rights.

  9. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    January, 2007
    Africa

    Includes the sources of women’s legal status; women’s rights to land and other natural resources; the rights of women agricultural workers; the rights of self-employed rural women; toward the realisation of women’s rights: legal reform and implementation.

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