Liberalisation and the debates on women's access to land

Whose property whose authority? Gendering the legal and customary practices in ownership and access to land: A case of Swat, Pakistan

“…For instance, Razavi (2007) states that in a male-headed household, women cannot necessarily claim individual rights to own land "because membership in a household provides them with a range of material and non-material benefits, and hence they are more interested in strengthening their household's access to resources, including land" (p. 1497).…”

Gender Levees: Rethinking Women's Land Rights in Northeastern Honduras

“…With increased analytical attention to national and regional context, influential feminist scholars have pointed to caveats of and conditions for policies and practices affording land rights to women under land‐titling programmes and market‐friendly reforms (Agarwal 2003; Deere and León 2001b, 2003; Razavi 2003; Walker 2003; Whitehead and Dzodzi 2003). Land markets, themselves embodying gender hierarchies present in society, evidence severe limitations as channels for women's inclusion (Razavi 2007, 1486). Recent studies have revealed the gaps between policy and practice (Walker 2003); the barriers women face accessing land markets (Deere and León 2001b; Razavi 2007); the contradictory ways that nation states and social movements can impede and/or facilitate women's access to and control of land (Agarwal 2003; Deere 2003; Deere and León 2001a; Hamilton 2002); and the unintended consequences that can accompany formalization of property rights where collective or common property had been the norm (Lastarria‐Cornhiel 1997; Meinzen‐Dick et al.…”

“…Land markets, themselves embodying gender hierarchies present in society, evidence severe limitations as channels for women's inclusion (Razavi 2007, 1486). Recent studies have revealed the gaps between policy and practice (Walker 2003); the barriers women face accessing land markets (Deere and León 2001b; Razavi 2007); the contradictory ways that nation states and social movements can impede and/or facilitate women's access to and control of land (Agarwal 2003; Deere 2003; Deere and León 2001a; Hamilton 2002); and the unintended consequences that can accompany formalization of property rights where collective or common property had been the norm (Lastarria‐Cornhiel 1997; Meinzen‐Dick et al. 1997; Nyamu Musembi 2007; Varley 2007).…”

Saying all the right things? Gendered discourse in climate-smart agriculture

“…The celebration with which gender mainstreaming was met in the 1990s has given way to skepticism about the neoliberal, technocratic approach in which it is typically delivered and the failure to challenge masculinist privilege (Parpart 2009). Similarly, efforts to promote property rights typically rely on the instrumentalist notion that defined property rights for women will promote productivity, access to credit or the creation of more 'efficient' land markets, rather than address matters of systemic gender inequality (Razavi 2007). In Chant's (2012) words, this 'instrumentalization of gender' in the pursuit of other efficiency or productivity goals suggests little real interest in meaningful change.…”