Quan, Julian ORCID: 0000-0003-2388-5684, Forsythe, Lora ORCID: 0000-0001-9931-4453 and Po, June ORCID: 0000-0001-6124-8235 (2022) Advancing women's position by recognizing and strengthening customary land rights: lessons from community-based land interventions in Mozambique. In: Chigbu, Uchendu Eugene, (ed.) Land governance and gender: the tenure-gender nexus in land management and land policy. CABI, Wallingford Oxfordshire; Boston USA, pp. 65-79. ISBN 978-1789247664 ; 978-1789247671 ; 978-1789247688 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1079/9781789247664.0006)

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Abstract

This chapter argues that gender-sensitive lessons from recent land programmes and projects are critical to the planning, design and modification of new and continuing efforts of land programmes, to achieve transformative development outcomes, for both women and men. The researchers propose three important considerations for understanding the opportunities and constraints for gender-senstivity in land programmes: (i) the context of gendered land tenure and livelihood systems; (ii) the increase in private- sector agricultural investments for economic growth and national development in Africa, and (iii) the actors and methods involved in delivering land and development programmes to rural communities. Using three recent cases from Mozambique, this chapter explores how these factors shape the interaction between development organizations and local communities creates tension between land programmes and private investors, and women's empowerment in the context of their households and communities. The chapter draws on two locally specific tenure projects and one wider national programme, all of which received financial and technical support from the UK's former development agency, the Department for International Development (DfID). Each intervention aimed to secure customary land rights as an important condition for achieving transformative outcomes in agricultural and natural resource-based development.

Item Type:	Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords:	tenure systems; land rights; land governance; gender; equity
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman S Agriculture > S Agriculture (General)
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Engineering & Science Faculty of Engineering & Science > Natural Resources Institute Faculty of Engineering & Science > Natural Resources Institute > Development Studies Research Group Faculty of Engineering & Science > Natural Resources Institute > Livelihoods & Institutions Department
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Last Modified:	10 May 2022 13:28
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/35990

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