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   Women, property rights and HIV in India

   Policy Papers & Briefs

   January, 2006

   India

   women

   land rights

   In 2006, UNAIDS reported that almost half of the adults living with HIV and AIDS today were women. According to estimates, 38% of HIV-positive adults in India are women, and the number of young women, aged 15-24, living with HIV and AIDS is twice that of young men. HIV/AIDS has exposed the social inequities that predispose girls and women to HIV infection, but women need more than rights in order to protect themselves. In India, the AIDS epidemic magnifies the devastation of women’s property violations.

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   Decentralization and environmental conservation

   gender effects from participation in joint forest management

   Policy Papers & Briefs

   December, 2006

   Southern Asia, Asia, India

   Forest Tenure

   Land & Gender

   Land, Climate Change & Environment

   forestry

   natural resources management

   women

   gender equity in access to land

   community forestry

   forest management plans

   land management

   sustainable land management

   This paper analyzes how women’s participation affects institutional outcomes related to the decentralized governance of community forests in Madhya Pradesh, India. The analysis is based on data from a representative sample of 641 cases of joint forest management, India’s flagship program to involve communities in forest governance. We focus on two outcomes relevant for local livelihoods: control of illicit grazing and control of illicit felling in the forest.

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   WTO Kills Farmers: Beyond the Hong Kong Ministerial

   Policy Papers & Briefs

   February, 2006

   Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Benin, Botswana, China, Congo, Cuba, Côte d'Ivoire, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Kenya, Mauritius, Mongolia, Montserrat, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Republic of Korea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Senegal, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe

   agricultural land management

   agriculture

   farmers

   farmers associations

   farming systems

   land economics

   The World Trade Organization (WTO) hailed the recent Hong Kong Sixth Ministerial Meeting last December 2005 as a positive movement towards the conclusion of the Doha Development Round. The round was supposedly geared towards ensuring that trade contributes to the development objectives of least developed and developing countries.