Vietnam’s 1993 Land Law created a land market by granting households land-use rights which could be exchanged, leased, inherited, sold or mortgaged. This study uses quantitative and qualitative methods to analyze whether increased land titling led to discernible improvements in the economic security of households, and whether land titles in women’s names had markedly different effects as compared to titles held by men.

ABSTRACTED FROM THE GENERAL COMMENTS SECTION: The RGC in its combined 2010 Fourth and Fifth National Report (the ―RGC Report‖) on the Implementation of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women in Cambodia, makes specific reference to provisions in the Constitution and the Penal Code 1, claiming that the existence of these provisions in and of themselves, alongside plans to pass additional laws, guarantees full equality of women with men in the protection and enjoyment of human rights, as well as protection from all forms of discrimination.

ABSTRACTED FROM THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: This Report analyses Cambodia’s development dynamism over the last two decades and identifies emerging development priorities for the next two. It examines Cambodia’s past performance, emerging priorities and future challenges in economic, social, environmental and political spheres. One of the distinguishing features of this Report is that it examines Cambodia’s past performance and emerging development priorities within a multi-country comparative perspective.

ABSTRACTED FROM THE INTRODUCTION: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) plays a leading role in the achievement of Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 1 – the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger. The majority of the world’s poor live in rural areas and have labour and land as their only or main productive assets. Therefore, promoting secure access to and control and use of land as well as secure and productive employment and decent work for women and men in rural areas is vital to achieving MDG1.

ABSTRACTED FROM THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Following such collection and compilation of relevant information on issues of women’s land rights, this report begins by introducing the centrality of the issue of women’s land rights, the developments in this context, and the remaining challenges with respect to complying on Articles 14, 15 and 16 of the CEDAW on the particular issue of women’s access to land and related resources. This is followed by recommendations for various key actors who are involved in ensuring the related compliance.

The issue of women’s access to land is often framed in the context of oppression, emancipation, or Vietnamese uniqueness. This study report examines contemporary women’s access to land across ten provinces outside of these traditional narratives. Ten selected research sites reflected a diveristy of rural-urban locations, lineage patterns, and ethnic diversity.

Por invitación del Gobierno de Brasil, la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO), en colaboración con la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), impulsó una reflexión regional sobre cómo avanzar en el mejoramiento de las condiciones de las mujeres rurales de América Latina y El Caribe y cómo progresar en el reconocimiento de sus derechos, a través del diseño e institucionalización de políticas públicas con enfoque de género; todo ello con el fin de proponer una agenda futura común para la región, así como crear un ambiente de diál

Somos mujeres con historias y luchas comunes por la vida, la tierra, los territorios, la Soberanía Alimentaria, la justicia, la dignidad; mujeres que compartimos saberes y experiencias, convencidas que las ideas como las semillas cuando se intercambian crecen y se multiplican.

Centroamericanas por el derecho a la tierra y la igualdad de género.

Tras dos años de trayectoria, el proyecto Apoderándola para adelantar el desarrollo económico, cuyo objetivo principal es proveerle herramientas a mujeres agricultoras para que puedan iniciar o manejar su agroempresa de manera exitosa, ha impactado aproximadamente a 100 féminas. Se trata de una iniciativa educativa del Servicio de Extensión Agrícola (SEA) del Colegio de Ciencias Agrícolas (CCA) del Recinto Universitario de Mayagüez (RUM). Video repotaje producido por la Oficina de Prensa del RUM.

En Ecuador, el Programa Mundial de Alimentos y los gobiernos locales compran los alimentos producidos por mujeres agricultoras con dos propósitos: apoyar la producción local para empoderar a las pequeñas agricultoras y diversificar las dietas, con alimentos sanos y nutritivos. Con esta modalidad, el PMA provee asistencia alimentaria a refugiados colombianos y población ecuatoriana vulnerable de las comunidades de acogida, complementa la alimentación en escuelas de frontera y apoya a familias de escasos recursos que tienen niños pequeños.

Tres mujeres campesinas de diferentes edades (80, 45 y 18 años) de Boaco, Nicaragua, cuentan las contradicciones y experiencias de ser mujer y trabajar la tierra en los diferentes épocas y contextos.