La presente investigación se centra en los saberes y haceres de tres mujeres desplazadas por violencia ubicadas en el sector de Altos de Cazucá, en en el municipio de Soacha. En la introducción, se presenta el rumbo general de este trabajo e igualmente la apuesta metodológica. En el primer capítulo, se describen las categorías principales.

Este artículo indaga por las dificultades en la protección de los derechos de las mujeres indígenas desplazadas, en el contexto de la pluralidad jurídica de que son sujetas y de la eficacia simbólica que comportan estos múltiples ordenamientos para ellas.

Colombia, ha sufrido las consecuencias del conflicto armado interno, durante las últimas seis décadas teniendo como blanco particularmente a la población civil no combatiente, población que en cada una de sus regiones ha visto afectado su tejido social de manera significativa.

En este artículo presentamos una reflexión analítica sobre los principales aspectos y oportunidades favorables que pueden surgir para mujeres de menores ingresos o comunidades marginales de Colombia a partir del pronunciamiento de la ONU A/64/L.63/Rev.1, del 26 de julio de 2010,1 que “declara el derecho al agua potable y el saneamiento como un derecho humano esencial para el pleno disfrute de la vida y de todos los derechos humanos”.

Gender issues are often ignored in projects that aim to improve land tenure and land administration. To support land administrators in governments and their counterparts in civil society, this guide shows where and why gender inclusion is important in projects. In order to help inform policy and implementation decisions, it identifies indicators for measuring the quality and quantity of access to land before, during and after an intervention and outlines recommended principles for gender inclusion in land administration projects.

Land capital occupies a prominent place in production activities in Africa. In forestry companies, women workers of production excellence, do not enjoy the same rights as the male agent in terms of access to land. This article attempts to question the foundations of this societal injustice while highlighting the various shadows that overwhelm women's tenure security in the forest zone. The major goal is to study in the event of looking for sustainable, inclusive solutions.

This article discusses different issues pertaining gender and land governance with focus to access and control of land by rural women and how this affects their resilience in G5-Sahel region- Chad, Niger, Burkina Faso, Mali, and Mauritania. Findings show that land remains the property of men, customary chiefs, male members of the family who have the full control of land use; women continue to serve as servants of their husbands in the farming activities.

Rwanda has implemented a land tenure regularization program since 2008 that enabled the adjudication and registration of land rights for both men and women. However, Rwandan women are vulnerable to land conflicts because some men do not recognize or respect women’s rights in land. This study investigates the extent to which government institutions in Rwanda empower women in claiming and defending their land rights. Data sources include questionnaire survey, interviews, and the review of literature on land reform in Rwanda.

The political dysfunction that had come to characterize an imploding Zimbabwean economy is beyond dispute. This paper explores how a government that had become weakened in the face of a formidable opposition in urban areas turned to use land as a reward for supporters and as a means of luring new members to join the ruling party. It argues that land patronage has been used as a means for legitimating fledgling state rule while undermining the tenure security of the poor.

This study examines the effect of land rights on agricultural outcomes in Rwanda. We characterize the effects of land rights from two perspectives. The first one is land rights indicated by the right to sell and guarantee land and the second one is land titling. The agricultural outcomes include agricultural productivity, food security and nutritional diversity. From the results, land rights are found to have a positive relationship with all the outcome variables. The effect of land rights on agricultural productivity is larger if the household head is male.

This paper assessed gender inequality in household resources, particularly land ownership, division of labour and decision making as regards climate change adaptation strategies for household food security. The results show that gender inequality exists among the pastoralists in terms of household division of labour, ownership of resources and decision-making such that women do not control important productive resources such as land and livestock which make them more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and less able to adapt to it.