Gender and the commons: Pastoral women’s land rights and village land use planning in Tanzania: Experiences from the sustainable rangeland management project

cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country instituteen
cg.authorship.typesNot CGIAR international instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationTanzania Women's Lawyer's Associationen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Livestock Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Land Coalitionen
cg.contributor.crpPolicies, Institutions, and Markets
cg.coverage.countryTanzania
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2TZ
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Africa
cg.creator.identifierFiona Flintan: 0000-0002-9732-097X
cg.howPublishedGrey Literatureen
cg.subject.ilriGENDERen
cg.subject.ilriNRMen
cg.subject.ilriPASTORALISMen
cg.subject.ilriRANGELANDSen
cg.subject.ilriWOMENen
dc.contributor.authorKisambu, N.en
dc.contributor.authorFlintan, Fiona E.en
dc.contributor.authorDaley, E.en
dc.contributor.authorPallas, S.en
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-05T11:36:58Zen
dc.date.available2018-01-05T11:36:58Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/89929
dc.titleGender and the commons: Pastoral women’s land rights and village land use planning in Tanzania: Experiences from the sustainable rangeland management projecten
dcterms.abstractIn pastoral societies women face many challenges. Some describe these as a ‘double burden’ – that is, as pastoralists and as women. However, pastoral women may obtain a significant degree of protection from customary law even if customary institutions are male-dominated. In periods of change (economic, social, political), this protection may be lost, and without protection from statutory laws, women are in danger of “falling between two stools” (Adoko and Levine 2009). A study carried out in four villages in Tanzania, supported by the International Land Coalition, sought to understand the challenges and opportunities facing pastoral women with respect to accessing land and resources, in the context of village land use planning. This research presents empirical data on pastoral women’s land rights, shedding light on some of the details of these and their manifestation considering the differing contexts, land use patterns, and nature of rights to land. There are some common themes – particularly around the challenges facing women in pastoral communities including lack of space to make their views heard, lack of awareness of their rights, coupled with broader governance challenges. New processes underway such as a government-led review of Tanzania’s land policy and the accompanied implementation strategy ,the new land policy provide opportunities to overcome these challenges.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceScientistsen
dcterms.bibliographicCitationKisambu, N., Flintan, F., Daley, E. and Pallas, S. 2017. Gender and the commons: Pastoral women’s land rights and village land use planning in Tanzania: Experiences from the sustainable rangeland management project. Paper presented at the Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 10-14 July 2017.en
dcterms.issued2017-07-14
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY
dcterms.subjectpastoralismen
dcterms.subjectrangelandsen
dcterms.subjectwomenen
dcterms.subjectland use planningen
dcterms.subjectgenderen
dcterms.typeConference Paper

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