Monitoramento do impacto transformador de gênero nos programas fundiários
Para que as intervenções de governança da terra sejam equitativas e sustentáveis, o papel da mulher deve ser ativamente trazido para o primeiro plano. Mas, como se faz isso? E, como você mede isso? Estas são questões colocadas dentro do programa LAND-at-scale.
Matrilineal Ownership, Patrilineal Access And Control: The Zambian Land Story.
Just like many African countries, a majority of Zambian tribes follow a matrilineal system, that is, an affinity system in which descent is derived through maternal instead of paternal lines which essentially means children are recognised by the names or family of their mothers. This does not only affect decent but also involves the inheritance of titles and property including land through the female line. One might ask why women have less access and control of land in Zambia when land and property is inherited through maternal lines.
Why Women Farmers Deserve the Right to Identity
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.