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WRRC Bibliography: Africa, Women's Inheritance and Property Rights

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Land Tenure and Family Farming in Africa: With Special reference to Senegal, Dakar
After analysing the challenges to agriculture in Africa, this paper shows how agricultural production is defined by farmers and by the public services, describes its main characteristics, and observes and discusses their ramifications for this sector. The significance of land tenure for farmers is...
Land Tenure Security: Shared Management of Common Property Sylvo pastoral resources in Niger
This article attempts to present a practical as well as theoretical overview of the current land tenure situation in Niger. West Africa.
Landless women, hopeless women? Gender, land and decentralisation in Niger
This paper is a summary of a regional case study on gender, land and decentralisation. The main study has two parts: three portraits of women showing different examples of access to natural resources and local leadership; and a general report based on the portraits and on interviews carried out in...
Landmines and Land Rights in Southern Sudan

This publication provides a number of distinct perspectives from which to explore the connections between humanitarian mine action, post-conflict land rights and livelihoods in Southern Sudan.

 

Law, Power and Politics in Niger: Land Struggles and the Rural Code

Lund’s study demonstrates the complex, controversial and permanently negotiable nature of land rights in rural areas.

Laws and practices relating to women’s inheritance rights in Nigeria: an overview
The Nigerian legal system can best be described as a hot-potch of Nigerian legislation, English law, customary law (including Islamic law) and judicial precedents; a system of federal and state courts, legislative power at the federal, state and local government levels,  The complex...
Les femmes et la terre

English Translation of Women and Land Tenure  (unpublished manuscript).

Levirate marriage practices among the Yoruba, Igbo and Hausa-Fulani; consequences for a man or woman who refuses to participate in the marriage; availability of state protection

This documents refers to the fact that marriage in Nigeria take place under three legal systems, but however even when couples marry under statutory law, customary law generally prevails. Levirate marriage where “ family member inherits a married woman whose husband is dead continues to be...

Liberalisation, Gender, and the Land Question in Sub-Saharan Africa
This article focuses on land reform initiatives undertaken in sub-Saharan African countries since the late 1980s. Section 1 sheds light on the changes in land tenure during the economic liberalization of the region. Section 2 briefly examines the gender-blind "mainstream" theoretical debates on...
Marriage system, access to land, and social protection for women: the case of Senegal
This paper present the findings of a field survey, which revealed that women never thought of invoking Islamic laws to advance their interests lest they should antagonise their male relatives and be compelled to forsake key social protections that they have traditionally enjoyed.