Towards Women's Equal Rights to Land in the Eastern Africa Sub-region
Title | Towards Women's Equal Rights to Land in the Eastern Africa Sub-region PDF eBook |
Author | Akinyi Nzioki |
Publisher | |
Pages | 120 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Land tenure |
ISBN |
Women's Land Rights & Privatization in Eastern Africa
Title | Women's Land Rights & Privatization in Eastern Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Birgit Englert |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Pages | 194 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1847016111 |
Are women's fragile land rights in Africa being eroded in a period of privatisation and land reforms sponsored by the World Bank? Changing global employment and trade patters and the HIV/AIDS epidemic has affected women in particular. A complexity is that women's and men's interests within households are both joint and separate, yet many land reform programmes are based on the notion of a unitary household in which resources benefit the whole family. Today new land market opportunities also tend to put women at a disadvantage, just as they were under colonialism. Women's secondary rights to land are being extinguished. The detailed, local level research in this volume not only challenges the status quo, but demonstrates that another world is possible and documents the many ways women in Eastern Africa are finding to ensure their rights to land.
Rights and Reality
Title | Rights and Reality PDF eBook |
Author | Marjolein Benschop |
Publisher | UN-HABITAT |
Pages | 202 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Housing |
ISBN | 9789211316636 |
Women and Land in Africa
Title | Women and Land in Africa PDF eBook |
Author | L Muthoni Wanyeki |
Publisher | Zed Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2003-03-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9781842770979 |
This volume is the product of original research into the changing situations which rural African women are experiencing in relation to land rights. The contributors highlight key land rights issues and make recommendations for each country. In a particularly interesting innovation, the volume examines the case of Ethiopia where an explicit attempt has been made not only to make the research findings available beyond the academic community, but to deploy this information in a rolling programme of advocacy. The authors argue that various social forces are now weakening customary and religious institutions; and innovative approaches to advocacy are seeking to assert women's human rights in this changing context.
Empowering Women
Title | Empowering Women PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Hallward-Driemeier |
Publisher | World Bank Publications |
Pages | 237 |
Release | 2012-10-04 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0821395343 |
This book provides compelling evidence from 42 Sub-Saharan African countries that gender gaps in legal capacity and property rights need to be addressed in terms of substance, enforcement, awareness, and access if economic opportunities for women in Sub-Saharan Africa are to continue to expand.
Women's Rights to Land and Privatization in Eastern Africa
Title | Women's Rights to Land and Privatization in Eastern Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Birgit Englert |
Publisher | James Currey |
Pages | 179 |
Release | 2008-11-01 |
Genre | Land reform |
ISBN | 9781847016102 |
This collection examines women's land rights in East Africa in the context of land tenure reforms and privatization.
Women, Land and Justice in Tanzania
Title | Women, Land and Justice in Tanzania PDF eBook |
Author | Helen Dancer |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Pages | 218 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1847011136 |
"Recent decades have seen a wave of land law reforms across Africa, in the context of a 'land rush' and land grabbing. But how has this been enacted on the ground and, in particular, how have women experienced this? This book seeks to re-orientate current debates on women's land rights towards a focus on the law in action. Centring on cases involving women litigants, the book considers the extent to which women are realising their interests in land through land courts and follows the progression of women's claims to land - from their social origins through processes of dispute resolution to judgment"--Unedited summary from book cover.