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DESENVOLVIMENTO RURAL, MULHERES E TERRA

UM OLHAR SOBRE TIMOR-LESTE

Reports & Research
July, 2008
Timor-Leste
Land & Gender
collective ownership
common lands
gender equity in access to land
land access
land area
land rights
legal empowerment
natural resources management
right of access
rural areas
rural development
O caminho percorrido para que as questões do género e do desenvolvimento e em especial a sua interligação sejam assuntos importantes e alvo de atenção tanto académica como política, foi longo. Várias áreas do conhecimento, como a sociologia, a antropologia e a economia, contribuem para a construção do conhecimento neste domínio, a par de outras mais recentes como os estudos feministas e os estudos póscoloniais. Como resultado, as teorias e os conceitos sobre a relação das mulheres com o desenvolvimento e os efeitos deste sobre as mulheres têm sido vários.
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Promoting Gender Equality in Foreign Agricultural Investments: Lessons from voluntary sustainability standards

Reports & Research
January, 2017
Africa
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
gender equity in access to land
farmland
land investments
foreign investment
research
farmers
women
Contains framework for analysing the gender impacts of foreign investment in agriculture; gender analysis of the certification criteria of voluntary sustainability standards and responsible investment frameworks; do voluntary sustainability standards improve gender equality?; lessons for responsible investment frameworks and recommendations.
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Strategies to get gender onto the agenda of the “land grab” debate

Reports & Research
March, 2011
Africa
Land & Gender
Land & Investments
land grabbing
advocacy
women
gender equity in access to land
Includes context and importance of the problem; ILC global case studies; critique of policy options; policy recommendations.
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Gender and Land. Good Practices and Lessons from Four Millennium Challenge Corporation Compact-Funded Land Projects. Synthesis Report and Case Studies: Benin, Lesotho, Mali, and Namibia

Reports & Research
September, 2014
Namibia, Mali, Benin, Lesotho, Africa
Land & Gender
women
gender equity in access to land
development agencies
capacity development
Examines MCC projects in Benin, Lesotho, Mali and Namibia to understand how each project applied gender to its design and implementation and how that approach impacted on results. Aims to help practitioners understand what concrete steps might be taken towards closing the gender gap in land projects.
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Gender and Politics in Africa: an interview with Marjorie Mbilinyi

Reports & Research
August, 2017
Africa
Land & Gender
women
gender equity in access to land
advocacy
land governance
ROAPE’s Janet Bujra questions Marjorie Mbilinyi about her fifty years of campaigning against patriarchal oppression on many fronts in Tanzania. Mbilinyi traces the legitimisation of feminism as a means to understand and a way to organise for and with women. This is not a feminism lifted from Europe or the US, but one generated in response to Tanzanian and African realities.
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Gender, Assets, and Agricultural Development Programs: A Conceptual Framework

Reports & Research
November, 2011
Africa
Land & Gender
women
gender equity in access to land
capacity development
development agencies
Includes assets, inequalities and the gender-asset gap; overview of the GAAP conceptual framework; gender, assets and agricultural development interventions; summary and implications. Discusses implications of gender differences for designing agricultural development interventions to increase asset growth. Identifies additional gaps in knowledge and possible investigations to address them.
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Women's Land Tenure Framework: Inheritance

Reports & Research
January, 2016
Global
Land & Gender
capacity development
farmers
gender equity in access to land
land inheritance rights
land rights activists
land tenure systems
local communities
women
The Landesa Center for Women’s Land Rights developed the Women’s Land Tenure Framework to assist anyone who is interested in understanding the complex issues associated with women’s land rights — officials, grassroots organizations, international technical advisers, policymakers, development practitioners, women’s rights advocates, land rights advocates, people who are developing programs to assist women farmers, people who are concerned with food security, and others.
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Women’s Access to Land and Housing in Lesotho

Reports & Research
July, 2018
Lesotho
Land & Gender
Urban Tenure
capacity development
gender equity in access to land
housing rights
land inheritance rights
land law
land policies
land rights
research
women
Women need secure access to and control of land in order to realise their human rights. In order for the women to realise their land and inheritance rights it is important for the policy makers to have in place mechanisms and institutions to guide practice. This report sets out the status of women’s land and inheritance rights in Lesotho. The aim is to provide a consolidated baseline which can inform policy making, implementation and monitoring.
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Good Land Governance: Between Hope and Reality

Journal Articles & Books
February, 2016
Global
capacity development
gender equity in access to land
land access
land governance
land tenure systems
tenure security
The paper highlights the fast changes in understanding and conceptualizing the complex topic of land governance, its multi-facetted aspects and inter-linkages to other thematic sectors. Major policy developments, such as state divestiture and increasing private investment into land, and a stronger and more influential role of Civil Society Organizations are addressed in more detail. Capacity development at all levels (e. g. academic, administrative, community, private investors) is identified to be essential for good and transparent governance in the sector.
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Land Corruption in Africa in 3 Topics

Reports & Research
September, 2019
Africa, Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, Ghana
Land & Corruption
compulsory acquisitions
customary land rights
customary law
customary tenure
eviction
gender equity in access to land
land conflicts
land dispute
land dispute resolution
land inheritance rights
legal empowerment
marital property rights
women
From July 17 to August 7, 2019, the Land Portal Foundation, the African Land Policy Center, GIZ and Transparency International Chapters in Ghana, Kenya and Uganda co-facilitated the dialogue Land Corruption in Africa addressing the role of traditional leaders in customary land administration, forced evictions as a form of land corruption and its Impact on women’s land rights and an analysis of alternative dispute resolution systems in addressing land corruption.