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Comunidad 24 de mayo: Mujeres Kichwas defendiendo la tierra

Reports & Research
Febrero, 2017
Ecuador

 

"Desde la antigüedad las mujeres soñamos defender la tierra para un futuro próspero, donde todos tengamos los mismos derechos sea hombre o mujer"(Antonia Grefa, Comunidad Veinticuatro De Mayo)

En la actualidad en la comunidad Veinticuatro de Mayo existe un porcentaje muy similar entre dirigentes hombres y mujeres, esto ha ayudado a que se equiparen los derechos y obligaciones dentro de esta comunidad.

USAID Report on Land Tenure & Cocoa Production in Ghana

Reports & Research
Marzo, 2017
Ghana

The Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana (CRIG), with support from the World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), performed the Ghana Land Tenure Baseline Survey, the first of its kind survey of tenure rights among cocoa farmers in Ghana. CRIG surveyed almost 1,800 cocoa farmers operating 3,900 cocoa plots regarding various land tenure issues within customary sharecropping arrangements and on owner-managed land. This report describes the findings from the Survey.

Desafios para Moçambique 2016

Journal Articles & Books
Noviembre, 2016
Mozambique

Esta é a sétima edição da série “Desafios para Moçambique” do IESE, iniciada em 2010, com o objectivo de contribuir para a análise e debate público de desafios económicos, sociais e polí- ticos considerados relevantes. O livro contém 14 artigos, organizados em quatro partes: Política, Economia, Sociedade e Moçambique no Mundo. À semelhança da terceira edição (2012), na preparação da presente edição os coordenadores consideraram pertinente convidar os autores a relacionarem os seus artigos com uma temática principal.

Building Evidence on Rural Women Struggles for Land Rights in Tanzania

Conference Papers & Reports
Febrero, 2017
Tanzania

Land is one of the terrains of struggle for most rural women in Africa because of its importance in sustaining rural livelihoods, and social-cultural and geopolitical factors that hinder women from enjoying land rights. Even when there are progressive land laws, as it is for Tanzania, women have not really enjoyed their rights. However, this has not stopped women to keep fighting for their land rights.  They have sought their own approaches by leveraging opportunities within traditional, religious, and formal systems standing for their rights. 


Challenges Facing Land Ownership in Rural Tanzania: What needs to be done?

Policy Papers & Briefs
Noviembre, 2013
Tanzania

Currently, Tanzania faces numerous challenges related to land ownership, especially in rural areas. The challenges include farmers-pastoralists conflicts, tenure disputes, and alienation of peasants. To address the challenges, the current policies and approaches used in the country need to be changed on the grounds that their inherent shortcomings make the policies unable to meet rampant land problems that the country has faced in recent years and continue to experience.

Critical Analysis of the Land Laws- A study

Reports & Research
Agosto, 2004
Tanzania

The task at hand entails the critical review of the Land Laws of Tanzania, chiefly Act No.4 and Act No.5, 1999 and their subsequent revisions. This could not be done out of context, or by confining oneself solely to the statutes. It was pertinent to review the factors and processes that informed the legislation. Towards this end, an extensive literature review on various aspects related to land reforms in Tanzania was done.


The Report of the National Land Forum 2005

Reports & Research
Abril, 2005
Tanzania

The Land Rights Research and Resources Institute held its second National level Public Forum on land on 12-13 May 2005. The two day forum was partly one of the planned activities in the Institute’s three year Strategic plan and a special event to commemorate the Institute’s tenth Anniversary. It thus took place along with other activities such as Training of Trainers (TOT) workshop, preparation and running of a documentary on land rights advocacy, special media programmes, Special theatre performance by Dhahabu theatre arts Group and moving into a more specious office premise.

La migración es reversible con procesos agroecológicos y de empoderamiento para las mujeres

Reports & Research
Diciembre, 2016
Nicaragua

La Fundación Entre Mujeres (FEM), es una organización feminista de mujeres rurales que durante 20 años ha impulsado procesos de empoderamiento de las mujeres rurales en el norte de Nicaragua y ha validado estrategias articuladas para lograrlo viendo a las mujeres como un sujeto multidimensional capaz de desafiar los límites que le impone la desigualdad estructural y la exclusión de género.

La mujer y los recursos de agua

Journal Articles & Books
Noviembre, 2016
México

La demanda de agua registra un rápido aumento en todo el mundo y el costo de desarrollar nuevos suministros resulta prohibitivo en muchos países. Paralelamente, la creciente contaminación del agua agrava el ya existente desequilibrio entre demanda y suministro. De ahí la vital importancia de desarrollar los recursos agua y riego en el marco de los esfuerzos por mejorar la seguridad alimentaria y la producción agrícola sostenible.

El acceso de las mujeres a la tierra: el caso de El Salvador

Reports & Research
Diciembre, 2012
El Salvador

La tierra no es solo un recurso económico, sino también un factor importante en la creación de la identidad individual y colectiva, un elemento clave para la organización de la vida social, religiosa y cultural así como un medio político. El acceso a la tierra aumenta el poder de las mujeres en sus hogares y organizaciones, a la vez que aumenta su bienestar y reduce su vulnerabilidad.