Single women, land and livelihood vulnerability in a communal area in Zimbabwe

Makura-Paradza, Gaynor Gamuchirai

doi:10.3920/978-90-8686-700-4

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“…The way women's land tenure experiences are conceived differently from those of men usually lead to the homogenization of women's land access and tenure security, because any time boundaries are drawn between men-and-women categories, borders are erased concerning the diversity that exists within women-and-women variations in land access and tenure security. Research findings from reputable organizations like the International Land Coalition and United States Agency for International Development indicate that there are large differences between women's participation in agricultural production and their ownership of agricultural land [8,9,60]. Many researchers, policymakers, and development practitioners tend not to acknowledge these differences in their works.…”

Section: Functional Differentiation Theory As a Path To Women's Empowmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Differentiations in Women’s Land Tenure Experiences: Implications for Women’s Land Access and Tenure Security in Sub-Saharan Africa

Chigbu

Paradza²,

Dachaga

2019

Land

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Most literature on land tenure in sub-Saharan Africa has presented women as a homogenous group. This study uses evidence from Ghana, Nigeria, and Zimbabwe to show that women have differentiated problems, needs, and statuses in their quest for land access and tenure security. It illustrates how women-to-women differences influence women’s access to land. By investigating differentiations in women’s land tenure in the three countries, the study identifies multiple and somewhat interlinked ways in which differentiations exist in women’s land tenure. It achieved some key outcomes. The findings include a matrix of factors that differentiate women’s land access and tenure security, a visualisation of women’s differentiation in land tenure showing possible modes for actions, and an adaptable approach for operationalising women’s differentiation in land tenure policies (among others). Using these as evidence, it argues that women are a highly differentiated gender group, and the only thing homogenous in the three cases is that women are heterogeneous in their land tenure experiences. It concludes that an emphasis on how the differentiation among women allows for significant insight to emerge into how they experience tenure access differently is essential in improving the tenure security of women. Finally, it makes policy recommendations.

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Section: Functional Differentiation Theory As a Path To Women's Empowmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A study of women's land rights vulnerability in Zimbabwe concluded that the role of patriarchy was sometimes overemphasised in studies of women's land rights vulnerability in the developing world [9]. Another study on Nigeria showed that the land challenges women face are sometimes as a result of "actions and inactions" of women [10].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Differentiations in Women’s Land Tenure Experiences: Implications for Women’s Land Access and Tenure Security in Sub-Saharan Africa

Chigbu

Paradza²,

Dachaga

2019

Land

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“…The household responsibility system and social change in rural China, providing a longitudinal perspective by applying a cohort approach (Yuan, 2010). Single women, land and livelihood vulnerability in a communal area in Zimbabwe (Makura‐Paradza, 2010). …”

Section: A Comparative Application Of the Concept Of Householdmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Single women, land and livelihood vulnerability in a communal area in Zimbabwe (Makura‐Paradza, 2010).…”

Section: A Comparative Application Of the Concept Of Householdmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The study defines the hearth-hold as a unit consisting of the mother as the central actor and her children. The leadership role the mother assumes is the outcome of the specific circumstances in this part of Zimbabwe and the women's personal histories (Makura-Paradza, 2010). migration causes a discrepancy between official hukou headship (3.7% female heads) and actual headship of rural households (35% female heads).…”

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Conceptualizing the household as an object of study

Niehof¹

2011

Int J Consumer Studies

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The use of the term household and the theoretical and empirical meanings attached to it have undergone changes through time. When Home Economics was established as an academic field of study, the household became its primary unit of analysis. In Northern societies, the concept of family gradually began to occupy the limelight, and functions and aspects formerly attributed to the household in studies on the domestic domain began to feature in family studies. Against the backdrop of the second feminist wave and the emergence of consumer society and urban lifestyles, the household was increasingly treated as a unit of consumption only. Such a narrow conceptualization of the household not only limits its application to certain types of societies but also obstructs our view on the ways in which people provide for their food and care needs, cope with deprivation and adversity, and leaves the important role women play in these processes under‐exposed. These arguments are developed on the basis of an analysis of the results of 12 recent (2002–2010) Wageningen University PhD research projects in different Asian and African countries. The concepts of family and home emerge in the analysis as well, but are seen as partly overlapping with the concept of household and subsumed under it. On the basis of the results of the analysis and the literature, the paper formulates conclusions about the importance of the household as a unit of analysis and the relevance of a field of study that focuses on households and the domestic domain.

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