Africa

“Women, land ownership and development in the Sudan”

Few Sudanese women are land owners despite their role in food production and new discriminatory legislation relating to land registration and tenancy distribution is making ti even more difficult for women agriuc,tural workers to improve their situation. Aksi discusses three case studies which illustrate the following points – when women do not own land, there contribution is meager, when women own land.

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.

FAO Sudan: Full Country Report, Gender and Land Rights database

This country report provides information on the national legal framework including rights entrenched in the Constitution, women's property and use rights in Civil Code, Labour Code,and Family Code, inheritance legal mechanisms , land law and policies/Institutional mechanisms enforcing or preventing women’s land rights, customary law and land tenure and related institutions.

Displaced women, Land rights and violence in the context of the armed conflict: field testimonies of Nuba women in Sudan

The publication presents perspectives from a number of countries including Sudan reflecting the idea that women’s land, property and housing rights require treatment within a broad human rights framework and that women’s status and condition, as well as their experience of violence, is intimately connected with their ability to exercise fundamental socio-economic and cultural rights. The contribution from Sudan documents the interplay between rights to land and property (or lack thereof) and violence against women.

Sudan: The Question of Land

This is the tenth in a series of articles concerning the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA), explaining how different parts were negotiated, what the paragraphs mean, and how they should be implemented. This article focuses on the question of land tenure. Conflict over land is one of the major reasons for the war in Darfur.

“Fundamentalisms, globalisation and women’s human rights in Senegal”

This paper mentions how women’s land rights are affected by fundamentalist movements, which do not respect women’s rights and status as autonomous citizens.

Les femmes et la terre

English Translation of Women and Land Tenure (unpublished manuscript).

“Land law and the transition to capitalism: natural history of a Senegalese case study”

Snyder’s three papers above examine how land legislation in Senegal institutionalises the transition to capitalism.

“Land law and economic change in rural Senegal : Diola pledge transactions and disputes”

“Land reform and public land ownership in Senegal”