Empowering Women Through Equal Land Rights

Empowering Women Through Equal Land Rights

Traditional customary land tenure systems often limit women’s land rights in Sub-Saharan Africa.In an ongoing experiment in rural Uganda, we offered households fully-subsidized land titles and basic information about the benefits of land titling.Providing additional gender information and making the offer conditional on female co-tilting raised the take up of joint titles to about 76 percent and 89 percent, respectively, without dampening overall demand for titling.

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Main Authors: Cherchi, Ludovica, Goldstein, Markus, Habyarimana, James, Montalvao, Joao, O'Sullivan, Michael, Udry, Chris, Gruver, Ariel
Format: Brief biblioteca
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2019-04
Subjects:LAND RIGHTS, GENDER, PROPERTY RIGHTS, RURAL POVERTY, LAND TITLE, AFRICA GENDER POLICY, GENDER INNOVATION LAB, WOMEN AND PROPERTY RIGHTS,
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/472041554472618017/Empowering-Women-Through-Equal-Land-Rights-Experimental-Evidence-From-Rural-Uganda
https://hdl.handle.net/10986/31513
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Summary:Traditional customary land tenure systems often limit women’s land rights in Sub-Saharan Africa.In an ongoing experiment in rural Uganda, we offered households fully-subsidized land titles and basic information about the benefits of land titling.Providing additional gender information and making the offer conditional on female co-tilting raised the take up of joint titles to about 76 percent and 89 percent, respectively, without dampening overall demand for titling.

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