Author: Lotsmart Fonjong
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land tenure
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
Land Tenure Practices and Women's Rights to Land in Anglophone Cameroon
Author: Lotsmart Fonjong
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land tenure
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land tenure
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
Land tenure practices and women's rights to land in Anglophone Cameroon
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
Issues in Women's Land Rights in Cameroon
Author: N. Fonjong
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9956727016
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
This book explores the customary, social, economic political and rights issues surrounding access, ownership and control over land from a gender perspective. It combines theory and practice from researchers, lawyers and judges, each with track records of working on women and rights concerns. The nexus between the reluctance to recognize and materialize womens right to land, and the increasing feminization of poverty is undeniable. The problem assumes special acuity in an essentially agrarian context like Cameroon, where the problem is not so much the law as its manner of application. That this book delves into investigating the principal sources and reasons for this prevalent injustice is particularly welcome. As some of the analyses reveal, denying women their right to land acquisition or inheritance is sometimes contrary to established judicial precedents and even in total dissonance with the countrys constitution. Traditional and cultural shibboleths associated with land acquisition and ownership that tend to stymie womens development and fulfilment, must be quickly shirked, for such retrograde excuses can no longer find comfort in the law, morality nor in modern traditional thinking. The trend, albeit timid, of appointing women to Land Consultative Boards and even as traditional authorities, can only be salutary. These are some positive practical steps that can translate the notion of equal rights into equal power over land for both sexes; otherwise equality in this context will remain an unattractive slogan.
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9956727016
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
This book explores the customary, social, economic political and rights issues surrounding access, ownership and control over land from a gender perspective. It combines theory and practice from researchers, lawyers and judges, each with track records of working on women and rights concerns. The nexus between the reluctance to recognize and materialize womens right to land, and the increasing feminization of poverty is undeniable. The problem assumes special acuity in an essentially agrarian context like Cameroon, where the problem is not so much the law as its manner of application. That this book delves into investigating the principal sources and reasons for this prevalent injustice is particularly welcome. As some of the analyses reveal, denying women their right to land acquisition or inheritance is sometimes contrary to established judicial precedents and even in total dissonance with the countrys constitution. Traditional and cultural shibboleths associated with land acquisition and ownership that tend to stymie womens development and fulfilment, must be quickly shirked, for such retrograde excuses can no longer find comfort in the law, morality nor in modern traditional thinking. The trend, albeit timid, of appointing women to Land Consultative Boards and even as traditional authorities, can only be salutary. These are some positive practical steps that can translate the notion of equal rights into equal power over land for both sexes; otherwise equality in this context will remain an unattractive slogan.
Land Tenure Practices and Women's Right to Land in Anglophone Cameroon
Author: Lotsmart Fonjong
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783330059948
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783330059948
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Land Tenure, Gender and Globalisation
Author: Dzodzi Tsikata
Publisher: IDRC
ISBN: 8189884727
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Drawing from field research in Cameroon, Ghana, Vietnam, and the Amazon forests of Brazil, Bolivia, and Peru, this book explores the relationship between gender and land, revealing the workings of global capital and of people's responses to it. A central theme is the people's resistance to global forces, frequently through an insistence on the uniqueness of their livelihoods. For instance, in the Amazon, the focus is on the social movements that have emerged in the context of struggles over land rights concerning the extraction of Brazil nuts and babacu kernels in an increasingly globalised market. In Vietnam, the process of 'de-collectivising' rights to land is examined with a view to understand how gender and other social differences are reworked in a market economy. The book addresses a gap in the literature on land tenure and gender in developing countries. It raises new questions about the process of globalisation, particularly about who the actors are (local people, the state, NGOs, multinational companies) and the shifting relations amongst them. The book also challenges the very concepts of gender, land and globalization.
Publisher: IDRC
ISBN: 8189884727
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Drawing from field research in Cameroon, Ghana, Vietnam, and the Amazon forests of Brazil, Bolivia, and Peru, this book explores the relationship between gender and land, revealing the workings of global capital and of people's responses to it. A central theme is the people's resistance to global forces, frequently through an insistence on the uniqueness of their livelihoods. For instance, in the Amazon, the focus is on the social movements that have emerged in the context of struggles over land rights concerning the extraction of Brazil nuts and babacu kernels in an increasingly globalised market. In Vietnam, the process of 'de-collectivising' rights to land is examined with a view to understand how gender and other social differences are reworked in a market economy. The book addresses a gap in the literature on land tenure and gender in developing countries. It raises new questions about the process of globalisation, particularly about who the actors are (local people, the state, NGOs, multinational companies) and the shifting relations amongst them. The book also challenges the very concepts of gender, land and globalization.
Women's Land Rights & Privatization in Eastern Africa
Author: Birgit Englert
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1847016111
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Are women's fragile land rights in Africa being eroded in a period of privatisation and land reforms sponsored by the World Bank? Changing global employment and trade patters and the HIV/AIDS epidemic has affected women in particular. A complexity is that women's and men's interests within households are both joint and separate, yet many land reform programmes are based on the notion of a unitary household in which resources benefit the whole family. Today new land market opportunities also tend to put women at a disadvantage, just as they were under colonialism. Women's secondary rights to land are being extinguished. The detailed, local level research in this volume not only challenges the status quo, but demonstrates that another world is possible and documents the many ways women in Eastern Africa are finding to ensure their rights to land.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1847016111
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Are women's fragile land rights in Africa being eroded in a period of privatisation and land reforms sponsored by the World Bank? Changing global employment and trade patters and the HIV/AIDS epidemic has affected women in particular. A complexity is that women's and men's interests within households are both joint and separate, yet many land reform programmes are based on the notion of a unitary household in which resources benefit the whole family. Today new land market opportunities also tend to put women at a disadvantage, just as they were under colonialism. Women's secondary rights to land are being extinguished. The detailed, local level research in this volume not only challenges the status quo, but demonstrates that another world is possible and documents the many ways women in Eastern Africa are finding to ensure their rights to land.
Women and Land in Africa
Author: L Muthoni Wanyeki
Publisher: Zed Books
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Bringing together ongoing research into rural African women and land rights, this book has case studies from Nigeria, Cameroon, Senegal, Ethiopia and Uganda.
Publisher: Zed Books
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Bringing together ongoing research into rural African women and land rights, this book has case studies from Nigeria, Cameroon, Senegal, Ethiopia and Uganda.
Issues in Women's Land Rights in Cameroon
Author: N. Fonjong
Publisher: Langaa RPCIG
ISBN: 9789956727018
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
This book explores the customary, social, economic political and rights issues surrounding access, ownership and control over land from a gender perspective. It combines theory and practice from researchers, lawyers and judges, each with track records of working on women and rights concerns. The nexus between the reluctance to recognize and materialize women s right to land, and the increasing feminization of poverty is undeniable. The problem assumes special acuity in an essentially agrarian context like Cameroon, where the problem is not so much the law as its manner of application. That this book delves into investigating the principal sources and reasons for this prevalent injustice is particularly welcome. As some of the analyses reveal, denying women their right to land acquisition or inheritance is sometimes contrary to established judicial precedents and even in total dissonance with the country s constitution. Traditional and cultural shibboleths associated with land acquisition and ownership that tend to stymie women s development and fulfilment, must be quickly shirked, for such retrograde excuses can no longer find comfort in the law, morality nor in modern traditional thinking. The trend, albeit timid, of appointing women to Land Consultative Boards and even as traditional authorities, can only be salutary. These are some positive practical steps that can translate the notion of equal rights into equal power over land for both sexes; otherwise equality in this context will remain an unattractive slogan.
Publisher: Langaa RPCIG
ISBN: 9789956727018
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
This book explores the customary, social, economic political and rights issues surrounding access, ownership and control over land from a gender perspective. It combines theory and practice from researchers, lawyers and judges, each with track records of working on women and rights concerns. The nexus between the reluctance to recognize and materialize women s right to land, and the increasing feminization of poverty is undeniable. The problem assumes special acuity in an essentially agrarian context like Cameroon, where the problem is not so much the law as its manner of application. That this book delves into investigating the principal sources and reasons for this prevalent injustice is particularly welcome. As some of the analyses reveal, denying women their right to land acquisition or inheritance is sometimes contrary to established judicial precedents and even in total dissonance with the country s constitution. Traditional and cultural shibboleths associated with land acquisition and ownership that tend to stymie women s development and fulfilment, must be quickly shirked, for such retrograde excuses can no longer find comfort in the law, morality nor in modern traditional thinking. The trend, albeit timid, of appointing women to Land Consultative Boards and even as traditional authorities, can only be salutary. These are some positive practical steps that can translate the notion of equal rights into equal power over land for both sexes; otherwise equality in this context will remain an unattractive slogan.
Women in Bamenda
Author: Adri van den Berg
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Allotment of land
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Historisch-antropologische studie naar overlevingsstrategieën van vrouwen in de stad Bamenda, Kameroen, m.b.t. de veranderende toegang tot grond voor vrouwen, gezien in het kader van de interactie tussen rurale ontwikkelingsprocessen en plaatselijke grondenrecht praktijken in Kameroen. Het onderzoek richt zich op de toenemende landschaarste en de nationale landwetgeving (1974) als belangrijkste thema's.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Allotment of land
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Historisch-antropologische studie naar overlevingsstrategieën van vrouwen in de stad Bamenda, Kameroen, m.b.t. de veranderende toegang tot grond voor vrouwen, gezien in het kader van de interactie tussen rurale ontwikkelingsprocessen en plaatselijke grondenrecht praktijken in Kameroen. Het onderzoek richt zich op de toenemende landschaarste en de nationale landwetgeving (1974) als belangrijkste thema's.
Towards Women's Equal Rights to Land in the Eastern Africa Sub-region
Author: Akinyi Nzioki
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land tenure
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land tenure
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description