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With limited land, access to it has been a prevailing issue which leads to human rights violations to farmers, and to the disadvantaged women and indigenous peoples.
In a seminar organised in November 2015 by Mokoro, two experts who have recently returned from the field shared their insights about an agribusiness in Ghana and women’s legal claims to land in Tanzania.
A recent World Bank study investigates the impact of land reform on the fertility outcomes of households in rural Ethiopia. In the past, public policies and customary tenure created a situation where Ethiopian households could influence their usufruct rights to land via a demographic expansion of the family. The study evaluates the impact of the abolishment of these pronatal property rights on fertility outcomes.
A new book by Helen Dancer, a senior lecturer at the University of Brighton, provides evidence of how women are using legal processes to claim their land rights. Between 2009 and 2010, Dancer conducted a year’s ethnographic fieldwork researching women’s claims in the land tribunals of Arusha, northern Tanzania. She followed up with short visits in 2010, 2011 and 2014.
By: Baher Kamal
Date: February 1st 2016
Source: Inter Press Service / AllAfrica.com
Cairo — Despite the enormous challenges facing Africa now, the leaders of its 1.2 billion plus inhabitants have decided to spotlight the issue of Human Rights With a Particular Focus on the Rights of Women in their 26th summit held in Addis Ababa on 21-31 January this year. Why?
Written by Simone Adler and Beverly Bell
Published: 10 November 2015
From an Interview with Mariama Sonko
Mariama Sonko is a farmer and organizer in Casamance, Senegal. She is the National Coordinator of We Are the Solution, a campaign for food sovereignty led by rural women in West Africa.
In rural Nigeria, 80 percent of small scale farmers are women. Yet very few own land -- held back by a lack of resources and conservative male attitudes. Activists are calling for more rights for women farmers, including access to land and credit.
WOCAN in collaboration with RECOFTC- The Center for People and Forests has developed an infographic to highlight the discussions and recommendations of the Regional Dialogue on Women’s Inclusion in Landscape Management, held on 7-9 October 2014 in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
