Improving women's and girls' land rights : illustrative interventions from India and Uganda
Hanstad, Tim et al.
Land is a critical asset for women and men, and especially for the rural poor. Womenns economic development and their rights to land are intrinsically linked. More than half of all women in the developing world still work in agriculture. Africaas women produce 78 percent of the continentts food, mainly through subsistence agriculture and small land holdings. In India, 86 percent of rural women work in agriculture. Property rights to landdwhether customary or formallact both as a form of economic access to key markets and a form of social access to non-market institutions such as household and community-level governance structures. Secure land rights can ensure safety, food security, status, and adequate shelter for women and their families.
Event: Annual Bank Conference on Land Policy and Administration
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