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Sustainable land governance requires that all members of a community, both women and men, have equal rights and say in decisions that affect their collectively-held lands.
La gobernanza sostenible de la tierra requiere que todos los miembros de una comunidad, tanto mujeres como hombres, tengan los mismos derechos y voz en las decisiones que afectan a sus tierras de propiedad colectiva.
Community land, crucial to rural livelihood around the world, is increasingly targeted by commercial interests. Its loss can lead to environmental degradation, increased rural poverty and land disputes that last for years.
This paper explores ways in which global actions to tackle climate change can potentially undermine women’s land tenure security.
Tanzania and Mozambique — countries of vast mountain ranges and open stretches of plateaus — now face a growing land problem.
Tanzania and Mozambique — countries of vast mountain ranges and open stretches of plateaus — now face a growing land problem.
Women disproportionately bear the negative impacts of large-scale land investments (in agribusiness, extractives, logging) in the global South.
Introduces a new IIED blog series looking at principles to strengthen women’s land rights. Over the past 15 years pressures on land across sub-Saharan Africa have increased and these have tended to affect women more severely as they have little control over the land they traditionally use.
This lesson brief explores the struggles women face in benefiting from their customary rights.
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