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Statement by Her Excellency Ambassador Josefa L.C. Sacko, Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, African Union Commission

26 Novembre 2019

I bring you warm greetings from H.E. Mousa Faki Mahamat, the Chairperson of African Union Commission. It is my honour and pleasure to deliver this statement at the opening of the Conference on Land Policy in Africa. I salute the African Development Bank (AfDB), the Government of Côte D’Ivoire and all partners for hosting and successfully organizing the 2019 Conference on Land Policy in Africa.

Les Béninoises toujours exclues de l’héritage par le droit coutumier

28 Octobre 2019

Date: 23 octobre 2019


Source: RFI 


Par: Delphine Bousquet


Au Bénin, la loi garantit l’accès de tous à la terre et le code foncier, révisé en 2017, a des dispositions en faveur des femmes. Mais en milieu rural, comme dans le département de l’Atlantique, au sud du pays, le droit coutumier est toujours pratiqué et elles n’y ont pas facilement accès…


Why Women Farmers Deserve the Right to Identity

18 Octobre 2019
Shipra Deo

On the 2019 International Day of Rural Women, Landesa’s Shipra Deo explores how land rights are an essential element for overturning misperceptions about the role of women in society and on the farm.


In a workshop with a group of agronomists who work in agriculture extension in India, I ask the participants to draw the picture of a farmer with whom they work. All but one of them draw male figures.


Women leaders protecting their land for the next generation

03 Mai 2019

By Chris Hufstader


 


After an audacious land grab by a foreign company, indigenous women in a remote Cambodian village struggle to regain their farms and sacred sites.



Sol Preng remembers vividly the day in 2012 when bulldozers unexpectedly arrived on her family farm.


“The company came and cleared away our cashew trees right before the harvest,” she says. “I lost four hectares of land and all my cashew trees.”


USAID’s MAST mobile tech programs promote women’s empowerment in Tanzania and Zambia

21 Mars 2019

By Deborah Espinosa and Patrick Gallagher, USAID’s Land Technology Solutions Program


 


Persistent and pervasive gender inequality is a global development challenge that constrains economic growth, educational opportunities, and health outcomes. It jeopardizes food security and undermines poverty reduction strategies. The world over, some formal and many informal laws and customs operate to hinder women’s empowerment and thus their full potential as agents of economic and social change.


Learnings on gender from the Congo Basin

08 Mars 2019
Anouska Perram

Improving how we work for – and with – indigenous and local women in their communities

 

As a human rights organisation, gender justice is a fundamental principle of our work, and we have long been conscious of, and sought to address, the barriers to effective participation in decision-making by women, as well as the other human rights violations they may face on account of their gender.