Land & Gender

Nosotras la Articulación de Mujeres de La Vía Campesina Honduras, integrada por representantes de las organizaciones campesinas (ANACH, CNTC, CODIMCA, UCIH-Choluteca y ADROH-La Paz), reunidas en Tegucigalpa, Honduras, hicimos un análisis de la grave situación que están viviendo las mujeres campesina, indígenas y garífunas ante la ola represiva de criminalización por la lucha por la tierra y el

La siguiente base de datos permite conocer los diferentes factores que generan desigualdades en el derecho a la tierra a través de perfiles de país, estadísticas de tierra desglosadas por sexo y a través de la herramienta de evaluación jurídica.

The role of land registration in reducing rural poverty has been debated for several decades. This article analyses the impacts of land registration on land rentals, security of land tenure, disputes over land, use of credit facilities from formal financial institutions and gender access and control over land.

Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) and Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) are considered effective market-based conservation approaches. Surprisingly, limited evidence is conceptualized from a gendered perspective despite widespread knowledge of men's and women's roles as resource users.

Development projects bring tremendous changes in patterns of use of land, water, and other natural resources which leads to a range of resettlement effects. This process of economic and social dislocation most often exacerbates existing gender disparities and inequalities in affected areas.

Seeks to answer the question, where collective tenure arrangements are either being formalized or supported for the sake of securing the community’s rights to land, what steps are required to strengthen women’s land rights in the process?

Numerosos estudios han documentado la importancia de la propiedad de la tierra para la seguridad económica de las mujeres rurales y el mejoramiento de la posición de ellas dentro de sus hogares. Esta expectativa se basa en el supuesto de que la propiedad de la tierra incrementa la capacidad de negociación de las mujeres.

ABSTRACTED FROM EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Land rights systems in Southeast Asia are in constant flux; they respond to various socioeconomic and political pressures and to changes in statutory and customary law. Over the last decade, Southeast Asia has become one of the hotspots of the global land grab phenomenon, accounting for about 30 percent of transnational land grabs globally.

There has been progress in terms of legislation of land ownership and women rights on the same subject in Kenya and a number of Non-Governmental Organizations and Civil Society Organizations are in the fore front promoting women land ownership.