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   Gender and the commons: Pastoral women’s land rights and village land use planning in Tanzania: Experiences from the sustainable rangeland management project

   Conference Papers & Reports

   July, 2017

   Tanzania, Africa, Eastern Africa, Southern Africa

   Land & Gender

   Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism

   Land Stakeholders & Institutions

   pastoral lands

   rangelands

   pastoralists

   land use planning

   women

   In pastoral societies women face many challenges. Some describe these as a ‘double burden’ –
   that is, as pastoralists and as women. However, pastoral women may obtain a significant degree
   of protection from customary law even if customary institutions are male-dominated. In periods
   of change (economic, social, political), this protection may be lost, and without protection from
   statutory laws, women are in danger of “falling between two stools” (Adoko and Levine 2009). A
   

2. Library Resource

   

   Pastoral women’s land rights and village land use planning in Tanzania: Experiences from the sustainable rangeland management project

   Conference Papers & Reports

   March, 2017

   Eastern Africa, Tanzania, Southern Africa

   Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism

   land reform

   land use planning

   pastoral lands

   pastoralists

   rangelands

   women

   In pastoral societies women face many challenges. Some describe these as a ‘double burden’ – that is, as pastoralists and as women. However, pastoral women may obtain a significant degree of protection from customary law even if customary institutions are male-dominated. In periods of change (economic, social, political), this protection may be lost, and without protection from statutory laws, women are in danger of “falling between two stools” (Adoko and Levine 2009).

3. Library Resource

   

   Women’s Rights and Leadership Forums

   Advancing the Land Rights of Pastoralist Women in Northern Tanzania

   Policy Papers & Briefs

   December, 2013

   Tanzania

   Indigenous & Community Land Rights

   Land & Gender

   Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism

   advocacy

   agrarian reform

   agrarian structure

   agricultural and rural legislation

   agropastoral systems

   land access

   land allocation

   land use

   land use planning

   natural resources management

   pastoral land rights

   pastoral lands

   pastoralists

   sustainable land management

   women

   In northern Tanzania, new grassroots groups called Women’s Rights and Leadership Forums (WRLFs) are mobilizing women and men in pastoralist communities to promote and defend local land rights. This briefing highlights some of the WRLFs’ achievements and strategies; asks how these forums, which appear to be a part of an emerging grassroots social movement for land rights, can be further supported; and explores whether such forums could be replicated elsewhere in the region