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   Grassroots Women Forge Deeper Relationships with Researchers at IDRC Conference "Gendered Terrain: Women's Access to Land in Africa"

   September, 2010

   Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda

   land

   property

   women

   In a groundbreaking symposium on women's access to land in Africa, with mostly researchers and institutional officials as attendees, the Huairou Commission delegation provided a unique community-based perspective. The Huairou Commission delegation of 12 grassroots women leaders from Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, and South Africa participated in two important panels, "Promoting Security of Tenure and Land Rights for Women in Urban Areas" and "Grassroots Women's Practices on Land Access and Control".
   

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   USAID Report on Land Tenure & Cocoa Production in Ghana

   A CRIG/WCF Collaborative Survey, February 2017

   Reports & Research

   April, 2017

   Ghana

   boundaries

   gender equity in access to land

   land inheritance rights

   customary law

   land use

   agricultural land management

   agriculture

   land

   alienation (land)

   encroachment

   collateral (land)

   land access

   control rights

   land conflicts

   farm tenancy

   community land rights

   customary land rights

   customary tenure

   farmers

   rural population

   women

   The Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana (CRIG), with support from the World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), performed the Ghana Land Tenure Baseline Survey, the first of its kind survey of tenure rights among cocoa farmers in Ghana. CRIG surveyed almost 1,800 cocoa farmers operating 3,900 cocoa plots regarding various land tenure issues within customary sharecropping arrangements and on owner-managed land. This report describes the findings from the Survey.

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   Women's Land Rights in Liberia in Law, Practice, and Future Reforms

   LGSA Women's Land Rights Study

   Reports & Research

   March, 2018

   Liberia

   Land & Gender

   gender equity in access to land

   inheritance tax

   land governance

   land inheritance rights

   land law

   land policies

   land reform

   land rights

   local communities

   research

   women

   Land is the most important asset for many rural Liberian women and men, and is often a family’s primary source of cash income, food and nutritional security, health care, and education. Though women play a central role in agricultural production in Liberia, women’s rights and access to land are often not equal to those of men due to biases in the formal legal framework and customary law.