access to land

ACCESS TO LAND

Blog
October 7, 2016
“As a wife I will help, manage, and love”: The value of qualitative research in understanding land tenure and gender in Ghana
In this post I argue that qualitative field work aiming at understanding the local context is not a frivolous activity.
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EnGendering Data Blog
March 14, 2016
Celebrating Pi Day: What pie charts can tell us about gender gaps in control over land
In recognition of Pi Day (Greek letter π), celebrated each March 14th (03/14), here are some pie charts to illustrate
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EnGendering Data Blog
March 7, 2016
Strengthening women’s land rights: what does data have to do with it?
The call for International Women’s Day 2016 asks people to Pledge for Parity. The pledge offers five components: help women
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Blog
February 23, 2016
Making sense of land, statistics, and gender
Adapted from the original post by FAO   New infographic by FAO and PIM on the correct use of land
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Blog
December 2, 2015
Gender, headship, and the life cycle: Landownership in four Asian countries
Despite increasing evidence that households do not always function as one, policies regarding land and property rights are often formulated
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EnGendering Data Blog
November 20, 2015
How sex-disaggregated land statistics can help monitor progress of the new Sustainable Development Goals
For decades feminist economists and women’s rights advocates have made the case that the lack of data on women’s land
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Blog
April 24, 2015
Plotting to get the word out: Gender and land research
Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Agnes Quisumbing are International Food Policy Research Institute's (IFPRI) researchers closely working with PIM on various topics
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EnGendering Data Blog
October 30, 2014
Women’s land ownership and decision-making
Do women landowners manage the plots of land that they own? There has been surprisingly little research on this question, although the answer is crucial to investigating whether there are gender differences in productivity or the adoption of new technology, among other issues. 
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March 24, 2014
Killer factcheck: ‘Women own 2% of land’ = not true. What do we really know about women and land?
This blog was originally written for oxfamblogs. Cheryl Doss argues that (as with ‘70% of the world’s poor are women‘) we
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