Pillars of the community: How trained volunteers defend land rights in Tanzania
Training volunteers to help their communities defend their land rights has proved an effective approach for promoting land justice in Tanzania.
Training volunteers to help their communities defend their land rights has proved an effective approach for promoting land justice in Tanzania.
Las mujeres son una fuerza fundamental para el cambio, tanto en lo que se refiere a su subordinación respecto a los hombres como en las luchas sociales por la democracia y la justicia económica.
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.
Un alto porcentaje de la población femenina trabaja en el sector agrícola y asume la responsabilidad de la producción y la economía de la familia y la comunidad dedicando mayor tiempo a las actividades agrícolas, cuidado del ganado, tejido, labores del hogar y trabajo colectivo en sus comunidades, debido a la fuerte migración de los hombres a las urbes y centros poblados, las mujeres cumplen un
Según el Tercer Censo Nacional Agropecuario (CENAGRO) 1993, un 4,7% del total de mujeres pequeñas productoras cuenta con un título de propiedad debidamente registrado frente a un 14,7% de varones.
Despite progressive provisions on gender equality in Tanzania’s land laws, women have little representation in land allocation decisions, including meetings of village councils and village assemblies. Mainstreaming gender in local regulations can help to address this problem.
Land acquisitions, either driven by foreign investments or domestic investment needs have continued to polarize opinions. When this research was proposed, it was premised on arguments by scholars Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Helen Markelova, who had analysed agricultural land deals, and argued that there were potentially two schools of thought about foreign acquisitions over agricultural land.
Land reform in South Africa intends to redress racial imbalances with regard to ownership and access to land.
In April 2006, six international donor agencies established a program to help Mozambique’s government register community land rights and improve tenure security for rural residents. Under Mozambique’s constitution, the state owned all land.
O Centro Terra Viva – Estudos e Advocacia Ambiental (CTV) é uma instituição não governamental moçambicana, de investigação e intervenção ambiental, que congrega profissionais de diferentes áreas fundamentais para a gestão do ambiente e dos recursos naturais, com destaque para o Direito Ambiental, Conservação e Gestão Ambiental, Informação e Educação Ambiental, Economia Rural
A Geografia é uma ciência que estuda o espaço (re)produzido a partir das relações sociais - dentre as quais as de gênero - estabelecidas no âmbito do trabalho social e conduzidas pelas demandas hegemônicas do capital.