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    Rural women’s access to land in Latin America

    January, 1999
    Latin America and the Caribbean
    Land & Gender
    Land & Food Security
    land
    land tenure
    food security
    land access
    women

    Paper addresses the following concerns:rural women have limited access to and control of landmost agrarian reforms and legislation that directly or indirectly regulate access to land discriminate against womenthe establishment of legal frameworks with a gender perspective and the elimination of cultural and institutional factors that prevent the recognition of women as producers are essential to safeguard rural women’s access to land.Merely introducing principles of equality into constitutions and in certain norms is not sufficient.

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    Access to Land in Rural India

    January, 1999
    India, Europe, Southern Asia
    Land & Gender
    Land & Food Security
    food security
    land reform
    land registration
    land
    poverty
    land law
    land tenure
    land ownership
    women

    Access to land is deeply important in rural India, where the incidence of poverty is highly correlated with lack of access to land. Mearns provides a framework for assessing alternative approaches to improving access to land by India's rural poor.

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