Women's Land Rights and Privatization in Eastern Africa (Eastern Africa Series)

Are women's fragile land rights in Africa being eroded in a period of privatisation and land reforms sponsored by the World Bank? Changing global employment and trade patters and the HIV/AIDS epidemic has affected women in particular. A complexity is that women's and men's interests within households are both joint and separate, yet many land reform programmes are based on the notion of a unitary household in which resources benefit the whole family. Today new land market opportunities also tend to put women at a disadvantage, just as they were under colonialism. Women's secondary rights to land are being extinguished. The detailed, local level research in this volume not only challenges the status quo, but demonstrates that another world is possible and documents the many ways women in Eastern Africa are finding to ensure their rights to land. This Collection Examines Women's Land Rights In East Africa In The Context Of Land Tenure Reforms And Privatization. Introduction : Women's Land Rights & Privatization / Birgit Englert & Elizabeth Daley -- Breathing Life Into Dead Theories About Property Rights In Rural Africa : Lessons From Kenya / Celestine Nyamu-musembi -- 'go Home & Clear The Conflict' : Human Rights Perspectives On Gender & Land In Tanzania / Ingunn Ikdahl -- Gender, Uenyeji, Wealth, Confidence & Land In Kinyanambo : The Impact Of Commoditization, Rural-urban Change & Land Registration In Mufindi District, Tanzania / Elizabeth Daley -- Changing Land Rights & Gendered Discourses : Examples From The Uluguru Mountains, Tanzania / Birgit Englert -- Falling Between Two Stools : How Women's Land Rights Are Lost Between State & Customary Law In Apac District, Northern Uganda / Judy Adoko & Simon Levine -- Struggling With In-laws & Corruption In Kombewa Division, Kenya : The Impact Of Hiv/aids On Widows' And Orphans' Land Rights / Samwel Ong'wen Okuro -- Women & Land Arrangements In Rwanda : A Gender-based Analysis Of Access To Natural Resources / An Ansoms & Nathalie Holvoet -- Afterword : Securing Women's Land Rights / Elizabeth Daley & Birgit Englert. Edited By Birgit Englert & Elizabeth Daley. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. In the context of increasing privatization and land reform these case studies reveal how reforms impact on women's rights to land and how these rights are contested or upheld.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 groundedin the findings from seven case studies, all based on in-depth qualitative research, from various regions of Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda. The detailed, local level research in this volume not only challenges the status quo, but demonstrates that another world is possible and documents the many ways women in Eastern Africa are finding to ensure their rights to land. BIRGIT ENGLERT is Assistant Professor in the Department of African Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria; ELIZABETH DALEY is an independent land consultant. Uganda: Fountain Publishers(PB); Kenya: EAEP(PB); Tanzania: E&D Vision Publishing(PB) CONTENTS NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS FOREWORD Introduction: Women’s land rights & privatization 1 Breathing Life into Dead Theories about Property Rights in Rural Africa: Lessons from Kenya 2 ‘Go Home & Clear the Conflict’: Human rights perspectives on gender & land in Tanzania 3 Gender, Uenyeji, Wealth, Confidence & Land in Kinyanambo: The impact of commoditization, rural-urban change & land registration in Mufindi District, Tanzania 4 Changing Land Rights & Gendered Discourses: Examples from the Uluguru Mountains, Tanzania 5 Falling Between Two Stools: How women’s land rights are lost between state & customary law in Apac District, Northern Uganda 6 Struggling with In-Laws & Corruption in Kombewa Division, Kenya: The impact of HIV/AIDS on widows’ and orphans’ land rights 7 Women & Land Arrangements in Rwanda: A gender-based analysis of access to natural resources AFTERWORD: Securing women’s land rights INDEX 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. The detailed, local level research in this volume not only challenges the status quo, but demonstrates that another world is possible and documents the many ways women in Eastern Africa are finding to ensure their rights to land. BIRGIT ENGLERT is Assistant Professor in the Department of African Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria; ELIZABETH DALEY is an independent land consultant. Uganda: Fountain Publishers(PB); Kenya: EAEP(PB); Tanzania: E&D Vision Publishing(PB)