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Land Rights Monitors and the Struggle for Land Rights in Agricultural Investment Areas

Experience from Tanzania

Conference Papers & Reports
March, 2014
Tanzania
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
advocacy
agrarian reform
capacity development
communal ownership
community land rights
compulsory acquisitions
gender equity in access to land
land
land access
land investments
To ensure that there is sustainability at the community level in its land rights and governance training programme, Land Rights Research and Resources Institute (HAKIARDHI), a Tanzanian national level organization that spearheads land rights of small-scale producers, uses land rights monitors (LRMs) in its program areas. In each of the selected villages of the program districts, two LRMs (a man and a woman) who have received land rights training from HAKIARDHI are democratically elected by villagers.
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Impacts of Climate Change on Land Use Patterns and Livelihoods of Pastoralists and Hunter Gathers

A Case of Mbulu, Hanang, Kiteto and Simanjiro Districts

Reports & Research
December, 2013
Tanzania
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
advocacy
agrarian reform
climate change
customary tenure
gender equity in access to land
grazing
grazing land rights
land access
land administration
land use
land use mapping
land-use planning
Over the years, PINGOs Forum has been concerned with the future of Pastoral and HunterGatherer communities with regard to changing patterns of traditional land use and livelihoods options. The information gathered from the past studies have risen much concern on the side of PINGOs Forum that perhaps climate change may have a serious bearing in the land use patterns and livelihoods of Pastoralists and Hunter-gatherers. As a result of this concern, PINGOs Forum decided to embark on a study to observe changes that have occurred in land use patterns in recent years.
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A Snapshot of Inequality

What the latest agricultural census reveals about land distribution in Colombia

Reports & Research
May, 2017
Colombia
Land & Gender
gender equity in access to land
land distribution
land grabbing
land policies
land reform
land use
research
women
This report first reviews how inequality in land distribution has reached extreme levels in Colombia. Then it analyzes the problem of concentration of land from different perspectives and indicators based on the agricultural census data from 2016, focusing on the major differences between the extremes.
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Radiografía de la desigualdad

Lo que nos dice el último censo agropecuario sobre la distribución de tierra en Colombia

Reports & Research
May, 2017
Colombia
Land & Gender
agrarian reform
gender equity in access to land
land distribution
land grabbing
land use
research
women
Luego de 45 años, en Colombia se realizó un nuevo Censo Agropecuario en 2014, cuyos resultados fueron publicados en varias entregas parciales. A finales de 2016, el Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística (DANE) entregó los microdatos completos del censo.
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Women, Land and Corruption

Resources for Practitioners and Policy-Makers

Reports & Research
March, 2018
Africa
Land & Corruption
advocacy
corruption
customary land rights
gender equity in access to land
indigenous peoples' land rights
land grabbing
land rights
usufruct
women
Women, Land and Corruption is a collection of unique articles and research findings that describe and analyse the prevalence of land corruption in Africa — and its disproportionate effect on women
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Do discriminatory social institutions matter for food security?

Policy Papers & Briefs
February, 2012
Global
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
agricultural land management
capacity development
food security
gender equity in access to land
rural areas
rural development
women
In view of the 2012 United Nations Commission on the Status of Women’s thematic focus on rural women’s empowerment, the gender team at the Development Centre has launched an issues paper, “Do discriminatory social institutions matter for food security?”.
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Women’s empowerment and nutrition: An evidence review

Reports & Research
October, 2013
Global
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
food security
gender equity in access to land
research
women
This paper starts by reflecting on the concept and measurement of women’s empowerment and then reviews some of the structural interventions that aim to influence underlying gender norms in society and eradicate gender discrimination. It then proceeds to review the evidence of the impact of three types of interventions—cash transfer programs, agricultural interventions, and microfinance programs—on women’s empowerment, nutrition, or both.
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What Dimensions of Women’s Empowerment Matter Most for Child Nutrition?

Evidence Using Nationally Representative Data from Bangladesh

Reports & Research
June, 2012
Bangladesh
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
agricultural land management
food security
gender equity in access to land
research
rural development
sustainable development
women
We use data from the 2007 Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey to examine the relationship between women’s status and nutrition in Bangladesh using indicators of empowerment such as mobility, decisionmaking power, and attitudes toward verbal and physical abuse. We also examine the role of variables reflecting maternal education and height, in relation to child nutrition. All models control for age and sex of the child, household wealth, and region.
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Women’s land rights and gender justice in land governance: pillars in the promotion and protection of women’s human rights in rural areas

Reports & Research
January, 2013
Global, Africa
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
adjudication
agrarian reform
common property
gender equity in access to land
land administration
land tenure
legal empowerment
Across the developing world, rural women suffer widespread gender-based discrimination in laws, customs and practices cause severe inequalities in their ability to access, control, own and use land and limit their participation in decision-making at all levels of land governance.
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Mind the Gap

Bridging the Divide between Land Policy and Practice. Securing women’s land rights through engendering the formalization process of customary land tenure in Uganda: Uganda Community Based Association for Women and Children’s welfare

Conference Papers & Reports
March, 2016
Africa, Uganda
Land & Gender
advocacy
customary land rights
customary tenure
gender equity in access to land
land access
land law
The 1995 Constitution of the Republic of Uganda is one of the most gender sensitive constitutions in the world, with clear provisions for promoting and protecting the rights of women. This is also the case in relation to women’s land rights – the Constitution clearly vests land in the people of Uganda, including the rights of women to own and inherit land. Other land laws, including the Land Act, recognize and uphold women’s rights to land as individuals, and as part of a family or community.