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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    July, 2015
    Peru

    El caso de la familia Nina Puma se constituye en un ejemplo de acceso a la tierra a través de transferencia de tierras por medio de la herencia en la comunidad de Acopía y la compra de un terreno en la ciudad de Cusco, Perú. El retorno a la comunidad de Acopía se transformó en un emprendimiento familiar vinculado a proyectos de mejoramiento de viviendas y la oferta turística vivencial.

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    November, 2015
    Brazil

    A experiência familiar de Adiva Nunes é um caso particular, onde se cruzam várias formas de acesso à terra que vigoram no país: a compra, a posse e a cessão pelo Estado através da Reforma Agrária. Inicialmente, acederam à terra através da compra de uma posse de terras. Compraram, mas legalmente eram posseiros. A nível econômico é explorada de forma familiar, com produção diversificada e manual.

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    April, 2015
    Latin America and the Caribbean, Colombia

    En vista de la desigualdad en el acceso a la tierra y a servicios sociales en Colombia que afecta a las mujeres rurales, y de la baja participación de mujeres en programas del Ministerio de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural (MADR) y del Banco Agrario, el MADR solicitó a USAID y al Programa de Tierras y Desarrollo Rural (PTDR) de Tetra Tech ARD, realizar un estudio para entender cuáles son los cuellos de botella que afectan principalmente a las mujeres para acceder a los diferentes programas del Ministerio y del Banco Agrario.

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    Reports & Research
    February, 2015
    Rwanda

    In Africa, land has an emotional and mystical value beyond the economic consideration and
    represents the social security and the continuity and independence of a family. In much of rural
    Africa, land constitutes the primary source from which millions of people derive their daily
    livelihoods (Bhandari 2001)
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    . In sub-Saharan Africa, women contribute between 60-80% of labor
    used to produce food for both household consumption and sale to agricultural production while
    women’s access to and control over land in Africa remains minimal (FAO, 1998).

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    Challenges and Constraints to Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment

    Reports & Research
    Training Resources & Tools
    December, 2015
    Bolivia, Latin America and the Caribbean

    This note aims to provide information and analysis as a basis for a better understanding of the challenges and constraints of achieving gender equality in Bolivia, with a special focus on the intersectionality between gender and ethnicity. Combining and analyzing existing evidence and new data, it seeks to document gender-specific disparities in development outcomes, highlight opportunities and constraints to women’s empowerment, and identify areas in which continuing knowledge gaps are particularly important to understand and address gender inequalities.

  6. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    January, 2015
    Bangladesh, Africa, Eastern Africa, Southern Asia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali

    Using a participatory rural appraisal approach, a series of qualitative studies were conducted in four countries facing negative impacts of climate change—Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Kenya and Mali—in order to determine men’s and women’s perceptions of climate change, adaptive approaches, and the degree to which assets and group participation play a role in adaptation strategies. Similarities were found across countries in terms of perceptions of climate change, impacts, and strategies for adaptation.

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    Reports & Research
    February, 2015
    Africa, Central African Republic

    The crisis that engulfed the Central African Republic (CAR) in the end of 2012 resulted in the perpetration of gross human rights violations, including the widespread looting and destruction of homes. As people fled the violence they left behind land which others occupied illegally. More than a year after the height of the crisis, approximately 440,000 Central Africans continue to be internally displaced. Almost half a million are refugees in neighbouring countries.


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    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2015
    Tanzania, Malawi, Uganda, Africa, Eastern Africa

    In sub-Saharan Africa women comprise a large proportion of the agricultural labor force, yet they are consistently found to be less productive than male farmers. The gender gap in agricultural productivity-measured by the value of agricultural produce per unit of cultivated land-ranges from 4-25 percent, depending on the country and the crop.1 The World Bank Africa Gender Innovation Lab, UN Women, and the UNDP-UNEP Poverty-Environment Initiative jointly produced a report to quantify the cost of the gender gap and the potential gains from closing that gap in Malawi, Tanzania, and Uganda.

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    Reports & Research
    December, 2015
    Asia

    This paper reviews the available data on men’s and women’s land rights, identifies what can and cannot be measured by these data, and uses these measures to assess the gaps in the land rights of women and men. Building on the conceptual framework developed in 2014 by Doss et al., we utilize nationally representative individual- and plot-level data from Bangladesh, Tajikistan, Vietnam, and Timor-Leste to calculate five indicators: incidence of ownership by sex; distribution of ownership by sex; and distribution of plots, mean plot size, and distribution of land area, all by sex of owner.

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