Global Trends in Land Tenure Reform - Gender Impacts (Hardcover)

This volume explores the gendered dimensions of recent land governance transformations across the globe, shedding important light on how the intersection of these complex contemporary forces are reconfiguring livelihoods and impacting women s positions, their tenure security and their well-being. It brings together empirical community case studies from around the world that describe, historicize, and situate land (or land-based resource) governance transformation processes as a product of contemporary forces and country/regional specificities.

Each contribution carefully analyzes the gendered dimensions of these transformations exploring how women are impacted by and respond to these processes of change. It is structured around five major contemporary processes of land governance transformations: land registration and distribution initiatives; post-conflict reconstruction and resettlement; large-scale land acquisitions; reforms to common property regimes; and joint titling interventions. Each part includes chapters covering different countries and regions of the world that have undertaken these processes.

This book offers a comprehensive and nuanced understanding of how gender is differentially impacted by tenure transformations and how this is importantly driven by complex and multi-faceted contemporary forces and local specificities. This is an important academic contribution for sociology, anthropology, political science, economy, agronomy, geography, and many other natural and social sciences. It is also a valuable resource for applied fields and development policy as it includes very careful analyses of state of the art tenure programs and experiments being implemented and championed throughout the world.

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