Women struggle to secure land rights

Kimani, Mary

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“…Women contribute significantly to food production in the subcontinent (Kimani, 2012). In Uganda, for example, 90 percent of all rural women work in agriculture.…”

Section: Women's Individual Rights To Communal Landmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…With the exception of a few matrilineal communities, lands rights were typically inherited only by men. Yet, women were ensured continued access to land also after separation, divorce or widowhood and could appeal to traditional means of arbitration if their access to land and resources was contested (Interview with Cousins as reported in Kimani, 2012).…”

Section: Women's Individual Rights To Communal Landmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Women's Individual Rights To Communal Landmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…At present, local chiefs who decide on land allocation have in most cases a particular cultural understanding of the role of women (not recognizing nor valuing their productive role) and, as custodians of community's culture, tend to perpetuate it in their decision on land allocation (Kimani, 2012;Akinola, 2018). It is also men who are in charge of local dispute-resolution systems, whereas court systems are both too expensive and "intimidating" for women to access them (Kimani, 2012). Furthermore, as has previously been recalled, the increasing commodification and individualization of land rights occurring within customary systems has triggered intra-household competition between men and women-and between generations-over productive resources, with family property being in fact "privatized" by senior male members (IIED, 2006).…”

Section: Women's Individual Rights To Communal Landmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The requirement for women's representation in land administration committees at local level (they should comprise at least one female member) has contributed in practice to the issuance of land certificates that reflect women's rights (FAO, 2011). In Rwanda, following the 1994 genocide, new legislation was passed recognizing women' inheritance rights on an equal footing with men so as to allow widows and female orphans to secure land (Kimani, 2012). The National Land Policy of 2004 and the Organic Land Law of 2005, besides recognizing equal rights to daughters and sons to inherit property belonging to their parents, also require for both women and men to provide consent in the case of sale, mortgage, or exchange of matrimonial property by any of the partners (ACET, 2016).…”

Section: Women's Individual Rights To Communal Landmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Women's Right to Land Between Collective and Individual Dimensions. Some Insights From Sub-Saharan Africa

Errico

2021

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Women represent a large part of the 2.5 billion people who depend on lands managed through customary, community-based tenure systems and are especially reliant on commons for their lives and livelihoods. They have very often limited and unsecured access to land and natural resources and tend to be excluded from decisions concerning them. Far from representing a homogenous group, they face varying challenges that are the result of multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination, whereby gender dynamics intersect with other characteristics, such as age, disability, ethnic origin, or socioeconomic status. Peasant and indigenous women, in many instances, face the compounded impact of the lack of recognition and violation of the collective rights of their communities, which is often the legacy of histories of colonization, conquest, dispossession and discrimination, and patriarchal norms, exacerbated by neoliberalism and the commodification of land and natural resources. The nexus between individual and collective rights is one of particular importance, but has received limited attention, including as regards the gendered effects of human rights violations of collective rights. In the present article, the nexus between collective and individual rights of peasant and indigenous women is illustrated by considering the experience surrounding the recognition and implementation of collective rights to land in Sub-Saharan Africa and the impact on women's right to land. The article argues that peasant and indigenous women's right to land is best protected through interventions aimed at guaranteeing both their collective and individual rights. There is a need to take into account and address simultaneously the barriers that indigenous and peasant women face with regard to their collective as well as their individual rights. These barriers include those ascribed to the discrimination and social, economic and political marginalization suffered by their peoples and communities, as well as those related to patriarchal power structures within and outside them. Addressing these barriers requires the respect, protection and fulfillment of both collective and individual human rights of women and a careful analysis of the interaction between these rights.

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“…Women contribute significantly to food production in the subcontinent (Kimani, 2012). In Uganda, for example, 90 percent of all rural women work in agriculture.…”

Section: Women's Individual Rights To Communal Landmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Women's Individual Rights To Communal Landmentioning

confidence: 99%