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.
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.
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.
Gender, Land and Livelihoods in East Africa
Author: Ritu Verma
Publisher: IDRC
ISBN: 0889369291
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Gender, Land, and Livelihoods in East Africa: Through farmers eyes
Publisher: IDRC
ISBN: 0889369291
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Gender, Land, and Livelihoods in East Africa: Through farmers eyes
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.
Rights and Reality
Author: Marjolein Benschop
Publisher: UN-HABITAT
ISBN: 9789211316636
Category : Housing
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Publisher: UN-HABITAT
ISBN: 9789211316636
Category : Housing
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Agriculture, Women, And Land
Author: Jean Davison
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429712901
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
This book examines gender relations to land relations that are crucial to formulating policies through which African women's food producing capabilities can be advanced. It addresses the need to document historical changes in land tenure practices that have influenced women's household production.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429712901
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
This book examines gender relations to land relations that are crucial to formulating policies through which African women's food producing capabilities can be advanced. It addresses the need to document historical changes in land tenure practices that have influenced women's household production.
African Women in the Atlantic World
Author: Mariana P. Candido
Publisher: Western Africa
ISBN: 9781847012159
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
FOR SALE IN AFRICA ONLY An innovative and valuable resource for understanding women's roles in changing societies, this book brings together the history of Africa, the Atlantic and gender before the 20th century. It explores trade, slavery and migration in the context of the Euro-African encounter.
Publisher: Western Africa
ISBN: 9781847012159
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
FOR SALE IN AFRICA ONLY An innovative and valuable resource for understanding women's roles in changing societies, this book brings together the history of Africa, the Atlantic and gender before the 20th century. It explores trade, slavery and migration in the context of the Euro-African encounter.
Empowering Women
Author: Mary Hallward-Driemeier
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 0821395343
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
This book provides compelling evidence from 42 Sub-Saharan African countries that gender gaps in legal capacity and property rights need to be addressed in terms of substance, enforcement, awareness, and access if economic opportunities for women in Sub-Saharan Africa are to continue to expand.
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 0821395343
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
This book provides compelling evidence from 42 Sub-Saharan African countries that gender gaps in legal capacity and property rights need to be addressed in terms of substance, enforcement, awareness, and access if economic opportunities for women in Sub-Saharan Africa are to continue to expand.
Land Matters
Author: Tembeka Ngcukaitobi
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN: 1776095979
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Why has land reform been such a failure in South Africa? Will expropriation without compensation solve the problem? What can be done to get the land programme back on track? In Land Matters, Tembeka Ngcukaitobi tackles the past, present and future of the land question in South Africa. Going back in history, he shows how Africans’ communal systems of landownership were used by colonial rulers to deny that Africans owned the land at all. He explores the effects of the Land Acts, Bantustans and forced removals. And he evaluates the ANC’s policies on land throughout the struggle years, during the negotiations of the 1990s, and in government. Land Matters unpacks the government’s achievements and failures in land redistribution, restitution and tenure reform, and makes suggestions for what needs to be done in future. The book also explores the power of chiefs, the tension between communal landownership and the desire for private title, the failure of the willing-seller, willing-buyer approach, women and land reform, the role of banks, and the debates around amending the Constitution. Steering clear of the simplistic and polarising terms of the land debate, Ngcukaitobi argues for a return to the nuanced constitutional requirements of justice and equity in South Africa’s land policy. Thoughtful and provocative, Land Matters sheds light on one of the most topical, complex and urgent issues in South Africa today.
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN: 1776095979
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Why has land reform been such a failure in South Africa? Will expropriation without compensation solve the problem? What can be done to get the land programme back on track? In Land Matters, Tembeka Ngcukaitobi tackles the past, present and future of the land question in South Africa. Going back in history, he shows how Africans’ communal systems of landownership were used by colonial rulers to deny that Africans owned the land at all. He explores the effects of the Land Acts, Bantustans and forced removals. And he evaluates the ANC’s policies on land throughout the struggle years, during the negotiations of the 1990s, and in government. Land Matters unpacks the government’s achievements and failures in land redistribution, restitution and tenure reform, and makes suggestions for what needs to be done in future. The book also explores the power of chiefs, the tension between communal landownership and the desire for private title, the failure of the willing-seller, willing-buyer approach, women and land reform, the role of banks, and the debates around amending the Constitution. Steering clear of the simplistic and polarising terms of the land debate, Ngcukaitobi argues for a return to the nuanced constitutional requirements of justice and equity in South Africa’s land policy. Thoughtful and provocative, Land Matters sheds light on one of the most topical, complex and urgent issues in South Africa today.
Women and Land
Author: Debbie Budlender
Publisher: IDRC (International Development Research Centre)
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Women and Land: Securing Rights for Better Lives
Publisher: IDRC (International Development Research Centre)
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Women and Land: Securing Rights for Better Lives