Land rights, gender equality and household food security: Exploring the conceptual links in the case of India

An Assessment of the Evolution of Land Tenure System in Cameroon and its Effects on Women’s Land Rights and Food Security

“…Until the 1980s, the issue of food security was exclusively linked with food production. Starvation can result from a fall in endowments (such as land alienation) amongst other factors (Rao 2006).…”

“…Rugadya (2000) holds that in Uganda, for example, household output could be increased by 10 to 20% by reallocating currently-used agricultural inputs, of which land is core, more evenly between men and women (p. 2). In Burkina Faso, an analysis of household panel data suggests that farm output could be increased 6-20% through a more equitable allocation of productive resources between male and female farmers (Rao 2006, quoting from World Bank 2001.…”

“…Women may gain autonomy, but rarely does this increase their food security (Pottier 1994;Rao 2002). What it means is that granting land rights to women, especially in a context of the declining importance of agriculture to household incomes, may lead to greater gender equity in inheritance patterns, but may not necessarily achieve household food security or gender equality (Chowdhry 1993, in Rao 2006. With increasing land scarcity, combined with diversifi ed livelihood systems, as well as the broader understanding of food security, land alone cannot give women work and income, or improve their status.…”

Sustainable Livelihoods Approaches for Exploring Smallholder Agricultural Programs Targeted at Women: Examples from South Africa

“…The cooperative enabled these women access to various resources, such as income, land, farming implements, and training; this would not have been in reach if they had tried to approach this individually. The ability to follow new livelihood strategies depends on and is affected by different combinations and components of resources that people possess (Scoones, 1998), and these resources, in turn, are widely reported as crucial for women's empowerment (Hashemi, Schuler, & Riley, 1996;Kabeer, 1999;Malhotra, Schuler, & Boender, 2002;Rao, 2006). Considering that almost two decades after the end of apartheid a significant part of the South African population is still caught in a structural poverty trap, our findings suggest that the cooperatives may leverage transformation and social change that can lead to reducing the poverty status of participating women.…”

Labour Migration and Gendered Agricultural Relations: The Feminization of Agriculture in the Ejidal Sector of Calakmul, Mexico

“…2008). This research is largely driven by concerns related to both global agricultural production and local food security (Davison 1988; Rao 2006; Gawaya 2008). A second, overlapping set of research has explored resource constraints faced by women farmers, with an examination of access to credit, land (Deere and León 2001; Razavi 2003; Jacobs 2009; Fonjong et al.…”