Includes context and importance of the problem; ILC global case studies; critique of policy options; policy recommendations.
Contains review of women’s access to land, research overview of women’s land tenure status in East Africa, harnessing women’s agency to secure women’s access to land, the role of intermediary institutions in increasing women’s land tenure security.
Includes evolution of communal areas in Zimbabwe, research context and findings, processes leading to matongo, vulnerability of women’s land access, bargaining for land in patrimonial governance systems.
Includes sources of differentiation among women – type of land, age, life course, marital status, termination of marriage, economic status, AIDS; policy implications.
Includes background; conceptual framework; methodology; research findings – security of tenure, cultural practices, gender inequalities, land utilisation, constraints to production, a passion for farming, gender bias against women farmers in access to and utilization of land; lessons learnt, recommendations.
Includes introduction; vulnerabilities shared among all women; different categories of women have different vulnerabilities – widows, unmarried girls, divorced women, separated women, cohabiting women, married women; proposed solutions. Argues that rather than working against custom, policymakers and activists should be creative in identifying a range of culturally-appropriate solutions within custom that can successfully strengthen, defend and protect women’s land rights.
Analysis of women’s access to land in West Africa shows that they are central to agricultural development as land users, but rarely have the same access as men. They mainly have limited and temporary rights, although situations do vary. Increasing efforts are being made to remedy this through legislative texts and various bodies and NGOs, but it is particularly difficult in a context of social change and when other social categories, including men, may be in precarious land situations. How can we hope to secure women’s rights if those of men are not secure?
Experiences of Women in Asserting their Land Rights: The Case of Bugesera District, Rwanda
This paper explores, conceptually and empirically, the question of how much food is produced by women. Data for labour inputs and agricultural output are used to assess women’s contribution to food and agricultural production. The study also assesses gender differences in productivity. The paper finds that a precise measure of women’s contribution to food production is impossible to establish. In general women do not produce food separately from men and it is impossible to disaggregate men and women’s contributions either in terms of labor supplied or in terms of output produced.
A viabilidade e sustentabilidade dos sistemas modernos de protecção social, em países subdesenvolvidos como Moçambique, são geralmente avaliadas em torno dos mecanismos financeiros, como se a segurança humana da maioria da população dependesse principalmente da robustez, eficácia e eficiência dos sistemas económico-financeiros.
El SMFV en el Ejército de Chile, es parte de la Política de participación de mujeres en las Fuerzas Armadas (PPM) y de la persecución de la voluntariedad total en la realización del Servicio Militar Obligatorio. Es un caso de política dirigida para las mujeres, basada en un modelo de igualdad e implementada en un sector tradicionalmente masculino.
El siguiente trabajo de investigación analiza de manera comparativa las estrategias familiares campesinas de producción y reproducción social en el contexto de la agroindustria florícola en el cantón Cayambe. Se hace una revisión sobre la estructuración de los sistemas productivos, las formas en que las familias se adaptan, resisten y cambian frente a los contextos socioeconómicos con respuestas como la migración o la pluriactividad y cómo estos elementos se articulan con la soberanía alimentaria.