Women's land rights & privatization in eastern Africa / edited by Birgit Englert & Elizabeth Daley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Englert, Birgit.

Daley, Elizabeth.

Series:

Eastern African studies (London, England)

Eastern Africa series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Land reform--Africa, East.

Land reform.

Women's rights--Africa, East.

Women's rights.

Land tenure--Government policy--Africa, East.

Land tenure.

Privatization--Social aspects--Africa, East.

Privatization.

Privatization--Social aspects.

Land tenure--Government policy.

Africa, East.

Physical Description:

xii, 179 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Women's land rights and privatization in eastern Africa

Place of Publication:

Woodbridge, UK ; Rochester, NY : James Currey ; Kampala [Uganda] : Fountain Publishers ; Nairobi [Kenya] : EAEP ; Dar es Salaam [Tanzania] : E&D Vision, 2008.

Summary:

This volume focuses on the impact on women’s land rights from the contemporary drive towards the formulation and implementation of land tenure reforms which aim primarily at the private registration of land. It is solidly grounded in the findings from seven case studies, all based on in-depth qualitative research from various regions of Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda.

Contents:

1 Breathing Life into Dead Theories about Property Rights in Rural Africa Lessons from Kenya / Celestine Nyamu-Musembi 18

2 ‘Go Home & Clear the Conflict’ Human rights perspective on gender & land in Tanzania / Ingunn Ikdahl 40

3 Gender, Uenyeji, Wealth, Confidence & Land in Kinyanambo The impact of commoditization, rural-urban change & land registration in Mufindi District Tanzania / Elizabeth Daley 61

4 Changing Land Rights & Gendered Discourses Examples from the Uluguru Mountains, Tanzania / Birgit Englert 83

5 Falling Between Two Stools How women’s land right are lost between state & customary law in Apac District, Northern Uganda / Judy Adoko, Simon Levine 101

6 Struggling with In-Laws & Corruption in Kombewa Division, Kenya The impact of HIV / AIDS on widows’ and orphans’ land right / Samwel Ong’wen Okuro 121

7 Women & Land Arrangements in Rwanda A gender-based analysis of access to natural resources / An Ansoms, Nathalie Holvoet 138

Afterword Securing women’s land rights / Elizabeth Daley, Birgit Englert, Judy Adoko, An Ansoms, Nathalie Holvoet, Ingunn Ikdahl, Simon Levine, Celestine Nyamu-Musembi, Samwel Ong’wen Okuro.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781847016119

1847016111

OCLC:

244314909