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Women and Land
Here it is an important book on Women’s Land Rights, published by the International Development Research Centre.

Gendered Impacts of Commercial Pressures on Land
This paper contains a careful and focused analysis of the gendered impacts of commercial pressures on land (CPL), and especially their impacts on women. It is based on a review of the literature on CPL to date and an analysis from a gender perspective of International Land Coalition country case studies carried out in India, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Ethiopia, Zambia, Rwanda and Benin.

Women’s Inheritance and Property Rights: A Vehicle to Accelerate Progress Towards the Achievement of the Millennium Development Goals - Paper N. 13
Strengthening women’s inheritance and property rights can be an effective means of decreasing poverty and increasing gender equality, and thereby accelerating progress towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
LDPI Working Paper 2: The role of foreign investment in Ethiopia’s smallholder-focused agricultural development strategy
“Recent foreign agricultural investment in Africa has generated a great deal of interest and criticism, with western media warning of a neo-colonial ‘land grab’. This paper moves beyond this narrow assessment by examining the political and social dynamics of foreign agricultural investment in Ethiopia, a country which has figured prominently in recent debates.

“Without Land You Are Nobody”
This 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.

Making Rangelands Secure Bulletin Issue 1.
News, views and experiences on securing rights to rangelands from East Africa and beyond.

Natural Resources and Conflict Management: The Case of Land
The main objective of this paper is to provide a) a presentation of the diversity of land related conflicts in Africa, b) an analysis of underlying causes of conflicts and experiences in conflict resolution and, c) lessons learnt and best practices from the policy and legal responses and links with enhancement of land governance in the region.
Free articles on the Journal of Peasant Studies
“Three fresh and important articles each touching on key and controversial aspects of global land grabbing (China, gender impact, and Ethiopia, respectively) have been published recently in the Journal of Peasant Studies (JPS).






