We Need More Women on the Frontlines of the War on Hunger
By Alia Afshar-Gandhi and Kirsten Weeks
Source: DAI
In developing countries, something is missing in the war on hunger: an equal voice for women.
FEATURE-Kenyan women step up fight for land destined for coal mine
By: Shadrack Kavilu and Justus Wanzala
Date: 17 January 2017
Source: Reuters
When the Kenyan government announced five years ago that coal deposits had been found in the Mui Basin, a land of rolling hills and pristine forests east of Nairobi, local farmers hoped the discovery would help transform their livelihoods.
Community Volunteers Help Tanzanian Widows Access Land Rights
By: Kizito Makoye Shigela
Date: 12 January 2017
Source: IDN - InDepthNews
Kiyowela village in Tanzania’s southern highlands, every widow has a story to tell about how community volunteers have helped them solve property disputes with their relatives.
KCR govt’s bugbear: A woman lawyer fighting for farmers’ rights
By: Srinivasa Rao Apparasu
Date: 7 January 2017
Source: Hindustantimes
Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao is having sleepless nights, and the reason is a young woman advocate bent on ensuring justice for farmers “wronged” by the state government.
China: Minister: Rural Collective Property Rights Reform Safeguards Women's Legal Interests
By: Women Voice, Rong Chen
Date: January 5th 2017
Source: Women of China
Two high-ranking officials from China's Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) attended a press briefing on January 3 to explain the nation's latest policies on the reform of collective rural property rights.
Women farmers in northern India battle tradition, self-doubt to own land
By: Rina Chandran
Date: 29 December 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Anjali has worked on the land nearly all her life, first with her tenant-farmer parents, and then alongside her husband in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
But she has never owned land - a right she has been denied by inconsistent inheritance laws and her community's rigid custom that led her to believe only a man should own land.
Female Parliamentarians From Across Africa Meet in Nairobi to Discuss New Policies On Property Rights
Date: December 22nd 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / African Development Bank Group
The African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Women in Parliaments Global Forum (WIP) hosting the first meeting of the WIP Council on Economic Empowerment in Kenya
Only a new law will guarantee Indian women have rights to land: scientist
By: Rina Chandran
Date: December 21st 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - India must pass a law granting women equal rights to land as men if the country is to ensure more food is grown for its more than 1 billion people and greater respect for the environment, a leading scientist said.
Kenyan widows access to land still a mirage despite favorable laws
Date: 9 December 2016
Source:Coastweek
NAKURU (Xinhua) -- Access to land as a resource for development among widows in Kenya is a distressing issue of discussion despite the laws protecting their rights to land.
The Constitution outlaws violation of an individual’s right to land or property on basis of gender while Matrimonial Property Act clearly stretches out justice to a woman denied access and enjoyment of the respective assets.