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Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2011
Eastern Africa
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Policy Papers & BriefsJanuary, 2011Global[From the Executive Summary] Many poor communities depend on women to grow most of the food they eat, yet women farmers struggle with a severe lack of extension services, credit, inputs, and productive assets. Merely by ensuring women farmers get the same access to these resources as men, the G20 could lift 100 million people out of hunger.
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International Conventions or TreatiesJanuary, 1996GlobalThese two important documents include obligations related to women's housing and inheritance rights. Under the Habitat Agenda, States commit themselves also to:
"Provid[e] legal security of tenure and equal access to land to all people, including women and those living in poverty; and undertaking legislative and administrative reforms to give women full and equal access to economic resources, including the right to inheritance and to ownership of land and other property, credit, natural resources and appropriate technologies" (Sec. 40b)
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Critical Dimensions of Women‟s Access to Land and Relations in Tenure in East Africa
Reports & ResearchJanuary, 2007Eastern Africa, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, UgandaThis scoping study on women's access to land in East Africa sets up a conceptual framework in which to consider issues of women's land tenure and identifies key aras for future research as well as key actiors toward increased jender equity in land rights.
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Journal Articles & BooksJanuary, 2005Burkina FasoHunger and poverty are, in general, consequences of inadequate and restricted access to land and other resources, such as capital, inputs and technology; being women among those with less access to land, while accounting for a large share in small-scale food production.
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Focus on Land in Africa: Ghana Lesson Brief, Women's Evolving Land Rights
Policy Papers & BriefsJanuary, 2011AfricaThis lesson brief presents the situations faced by modern Ghanaian women and compare their evolving land rights across regions. It is part of the Focus on Land in Africa: Land Tenure and Property Rights online educational tool.
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Focus on Land in Africa: Tanzania Lesson Brief, Gender and Land Rights
January, 2011AfricaThis lesson brief examines the ways in which women's rights groups collaborated and engaged in the land law reform process in Tanzania. It is part of the Focus on Land in Africa: Land Tenure and Property Right online educational tool.
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Reports & ResearchJanuary, 2011Global[By Pamela Caro - Coordinated by Alejandra Scampini] The Feminist Perspectives Towards Transforming Economic Power series shares information, experiences from the ground, and testimonies from diverse groups of women. It provides analysis and builds knowledge on alternative visions and practices of development, with a vision of transformation.
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World Development Report
Reports & ResearchJanuary, 2011GlobalThe 2012 World Development Report on Gender Equality and Development finds that women's lives around the world have improved dramatically, but gaps remain in many areas. The authors use a conceptual framework to examine progress to date, and then recommend policy actions.
One of the key messages of the report is that:
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Reports & ResearchJanuary, 2011Global
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