Gender, Land and Livelihoods in East Africa
Author: Ritu Verma
Publisher: IDRC
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 0889369291
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Author: Ritu Verma
Publisher: IDRC
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 0889369291
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 263
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Birgit Englert
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 1847016111
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAre women's fragile land rights in Africa being eroded in a period of privatisation and land reforms sponsored by the World Bank? Changing global employment and trade patters and the HIV/AIDS epidemic has affected women in particular. A complexity is that women's and men's interests within households are both joint and separate, yet many land reform programmes are based on the notion of a unitary household in which resources benefit the whole family. Today new land market opportunities also tend to put women at a disadvantage, just as they were under colonialism. Women's secondary rights to land are being extinguished. The detailed, local level research in this volume not only challenges the status quo, but demonstrates that another world is possible and documents the many ways women in Eastern Africa are finding to ensure their rights to land.
Author: Elizabeth Francis
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-05-20
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 1134686218
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLivelihoods in rural Africa are changing in response to disappearing job prospects, falling agricultural output and collapsing infrastructure. This book explains why the responses to these challenges are so different in different parts of Africa. Making a Living uses case studies from commercial farming regions in Kenya, Tanzania and Zimbabwe and from much poorer areas within eastern and southern Africa.to give a broad comparative study of rural livelihoods. These case studies reveal how household relations, poverty and gender all play a part in the changing political economy of rural Africa.
Author: Isaiah Okeyo Onyango
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Published: 2009
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Dzodzi Tsikata
Publisher: IDRC
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 8189884727
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing from field research in Cameroon, Ghana, Vietnam, and the Amazon forests of Brazil, Bolivia, and Peru, this book explores the relationship between gender and land, revealing the workings of global capital and of people's responses to it. A central theme is the people's resistance to global forces, frequently through an insistence on the uniqueness of their livelihoods. For instance, in the Amazon, the focus is on the social movements that have emerged in the context of struggles over land rights concerning the extraction of Brazil nuts and babacu kernels in an increasingly globalised market. In Vietnam, the process of 'de-collectivising' rights to land is examined with a view to understand how gender and other social differences are reworked in a market economy. The book addresses a gap in the literature on land tenure and gender in developing countries. It raises new questions about the process of globalisation, particularly about who the actors are (local people, the state, NGOs, multinational companies) and the shifting relations amongst them. The book also challenges the very concepts of gender, land and globalization.
Author: Gita Gopal
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 252
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Nidhi Tandon
Publisher: Oxfam
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 26
ISBN-13: 1780772882
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Patience Mutopo
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2014-09-11
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 900428155X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is based on iterative multi-sited ethnography at Merrivale farm, Tavaka village, and various sites in South Africa. The author reveals how the dynamics generated by fast-track potentially offer new development opportunities – specifically for women. The findings challenge existing expert notions and opinions about women’s rural land use, livelihoods, and rural development. The book examines how negotiations and bargaining by women with family, state, and traditional actors have proved useful in accessing land in Mwenezi district, Zimbabwe. The hidden, complex, and innovative ways adopted by women to access land and shape livelihoods based on transitory mobility are examined. The role of collective action, conflicts, conflict resolution, and women’s agency in overcoming the challenges associated with trading in South Africa are examined within the ambit of the sustainable livelihoods framework, a gendered approach to land reform and social networks analysis.
Author: Justina Dugbazah
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2012-01-12
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 1465382941
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents an in-depth discussion within diverse contexts and a range of conceptual and methodological offerings, which interrogate not only issues concerning the migration discourse, but of gender theory and practice as well. It explores the gendered patterns of migration including how gender impacts on decisions to migrate in terms of who goes and why. Furthermore it examines how this affects the benefits and risks of migration for women and men, including impact on gender relations. The books empirical analysis is expertly crafted and executed, and the author shows an impressive state-of-the-art qualitative research analysis. This book provides an invaluable, up-to-date and refreshing discussion of key development issues in sub-Saharan Africa. The book will be of particular interest to those working in disciplines, and interdisciplinary fields such as development studies, agricultural studies, rural development, migration studies, gender studies, African studies, anthropology, political science, political economy, social work, economics, geography, and sociology.