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Till to tiller: International migration, remittances and land rights in West Africa

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Migrants are important to development and poverty reduction in their home countries. For many countries the levels of remittances from relatives abroad exceed...

To have and to hold: Women's Property and Inheritance Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa
Does women's lack of property rights increases household poverty and their vulnerability to HIV infection? Would securing these rights mitigate the impoverishing impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic? This paper seeks to answer these questions and
Traditional chiefs and modern land tenure law in Niger
Traditional marriage practices as determinants of women’s land rights in Sub-Saharan Africa: A review of research based on research by Jean-Philippe Platteau, Anita Abraham, Frederic Gaspart, and Luc Stevens

This article looks at land tenure systems as well as changes in traditional marriage institutions and social security in Senegal and Burkina Faso and argues that it is crucial that women’s social security and bargaining power within the traditional institutions be preserved while introducing new...

US AID Sudan Property Rights Programme
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Sudan Property Rights Programme (SPRP) is working with Southern Sudan Land Commission (SSLC) to develop a land policy for the Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS). The policy will be based upon an extensive programme of public...
USAID COUNTRY PROFILE: Property Rights and Resource Governance, Niger

This summary of Land Tenure and Property Rights (LTPR) issues in Niger is part of a series of LTPR Country Profiles produced by Associates in Rural Development, World Resources Institute and Rural Development Institute for USAID. The profile includes information on property rights and tenure...

Waiting for the rural code: perspective on land tenure reform in Niger

Since 1986 serious efforts have been made in Niger to prepare for reform of land tenure in the form of a Rural Code. This paper aims to outline some of the problems facing successful implementation of the Rural code in Niger and to sketch out some of the social and instituttional trends which...

Warrior Marks: Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Building of Women

This book chronicles a unique filmmaking journey. It describes documentary efforts undertaken from California to England, Senegal, The Gambia, and Burkina Faso, characterised by interviews with people who are concerned with and affected by the practice of female genital mutilation. The text...

Women and Land in Africa: A case study from Senegal
Women and Land in Africa: Case Study of Senegal
This study analyses the important role played by women in the Senegalese economy through their contribution in agriculture, which remains the key activity and the target of development policy. Such analysis shows that although their contribution is extremely important, it is invisible and not taken...