Land Tenure and Gender : Approaches and Challenges for Strengthening Rural Women's Land Rights

Land tenure security is crucial for women's empowerment and a prerequisite for building secure and resilient communities. Tenure is affected by many and often contradictory sets of rules, laws, customs, traditions, and perceptions. For most rural women, land tenure is complicated, with access and ownership often layered with barriers present in their daily realities: discriminatory social dynamics and strata, unresponsive legal systems, lack of economic opportunities, and lack of voice in decision making. Yet most policy reform, land management, and development programs disregard these realities in their interventions, which ultimately increases land tenure insecurity for rural women. This paper seeks to further develop the evidence base for access to and control over land.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Namubiru-Mwaura, Evelyn
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:	ABUSE, ACCESS TO INFORMATION, ACCESS TO JUSTICE, ACCESS TO LAND, ADVOCACY, AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, AGRARIAN REFORM, AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT, AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION, AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION SERVICES, AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY, AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH, AGRICULTURE, ATTITUDES ABOUT WOMEN, BABY, BARRIERS TO WOMEN, BLUEPRINT, BOTH SEXES, CASH CROPS, CENSUSES, CHILD HEALTH, CIVIL WAR, COURT, COURTS, CROPS, CUSTOMARY LAW, CUSTOMARY LAWS, CUSTOMARY PRACTICES, DEMOCRACY, DESCENT, DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES, DISCRIMINATION, DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN, DISCRIMINATORY PRACTICES, DISSEMINATION, DIVORCE, DIVORCED WOMAN, DIVORCES, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, ECONOMIC BENEFITS, ECONOMIC GROWTH, ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES, EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT, EMPOWERING WOMEN, EMPOWERMENT, ENVIRONMENTS, EQUAL RIGHTS, EQUALITY WITH MEN, EQUIPMENT, ETHNIC GROUP, EXTENDED FAMILIES, EXTENDED FAMILY, EXTENSION, EXTENSION SERVICES, FAMILIES, FAMILY MEMBERS, FAMILY PROPERTY, FARMERS, FARMS, FEMALE, FEMALE HEADS OF HOUSEHOLD, FEMALES, FIGHT AGAINST POVERTY, FOCUS GROUP DISCUSSIONS, FOOD PRODUCTION, FOOD SECURITY, FOREST, FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION, GENDER, GENDER DIFFERENTIALS, GENDER DISCRIMINATION, GENDER DISPARITIES, GENDER EQUALITY, GENDER EQUITY, GENDER GAPS, GENDER INEQUALITY, GENDER INEQUITIES, GENDER SENSITIVE LAWS, GLOBAL CAMPAIGN, GOVERNMENT POLICIES, HEALTH CARE, HIV, HIV INFECTION, HOME, HOMES, HOUSEHOLD INCOME, HOUSEHOLD LEVEL, HOUSEHOLD PROPERTY, HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS, HOUSING, HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, HUMAN RIGHTS, HUMAN RIGHTS OF WOMEN, HUMAN SETTLEMENTS, HUNGER, HUSBAND, HUSBANDS, INCOMES, INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS, INEQUALITIES, INHERITANCE, INHERITANCE RIGHTS, INTEGRATION, INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON WOMEN, INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY, INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INTERNATIONAL INSTRUMENTS, ISLAMIC LAW, JUSTICE, LABOR FORCE, LABOR MARKET, LAND ADMINISTRATION, LAND OWNERSHIP, LAND REFORM, LAND RIGHT, LAND RIGHTS, LAND TENURE, LAND USE, LANDS, LAWS, LEGAL ENTITY, LEGAL RIGHTS, LEGAL STATUS, LEGAL SUPPORT, LEGISLATION, LEGISLATIONS, LEVEL OF DEVELOPMENT, LIVELIHOODS, LIVING CONDITIONS, LOCAL AUTHORITIES, MALE LINEAGE, MANDATES, MARITAL PROPERTY, MARKET ECONOMY, MARRIAGES, MARRIED WOMAN, MARRIED WOMEN, MATERNAL HEALTH, MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES, MEDIATORS, MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS, MOTHER, MUSLIM WOMEN, NATIONAL LEGISLATION, NATIONAL LEVEL, NATIONAL POLICIES, NATURAL RESOURCES, NEWBORN, NGOS, NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS, NUMBER OF WOMEN, NUTRITION, OLD AGE, OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN, ORPHANS, OWNERSHIP OF LAND, OWNERSHIP RIGHTS, PARTICIPATION OF WOMEN, POLICY MAKERS, POLICY PROCESSES, POLICY RESEARCH, POLITICAL SYSTEMS, POLITICAL TURMOIL, POLYGAMOUS MARRIAGES, POLYGAMY, POSTERS, PRACTITIONERS, PRIMARY SCHOOLING, PRIVATIZATION, PROGRESS, PROMOTING GENDER EQUALITY, PROMOTING GENDER EQUITY, PROPERTY LAW, PROPERTY RIGHTS, PUBLIC AWARENESS, RANGELAND, RELIGIOUS BELIEFS, RELIGIOUS PRACTICES, RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS, RESIDENCES, RESPECT, ROLE OF WOMEN, RURAL AREAS, RURAL COMMUNITIES, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, RURAL LIVELIHOODS, RURAL WOMEN, SEX, SEX DISCRIMINATION, SEXES, SHARIA, SHARIA LAW, SINGLE WOMEN, SOCIAL COHESION, SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS, SOCIAL SCIENCES, SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS, SPOUSE, SPOUSES, STATUS OF WOMEN, SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, SYSTEMS OF LAND TENURE, TENURES, TRADITIONAL GENDER ROLES, URBAN AREAS, URBAN WOMEN, VULNERABILITY, VULNERABLE GROUPS, WEDDING, WIDOW, WIDOWS, WIFE, WILL, WILLS, WIVES, WOMAN,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/01/20432563/land-tenure-gender-approaches-challenges-strengthening-rural-womens-land-rights https://hdl.handle.net/10986/21033
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