12.7 Rural women and land ownership

Land use right for women in rural areas

In the rural economy, access to land and land usages is determined primarily by men.

In rural areas, land is the most highly valued asset.

One Working Group also addressed Rural Populations Group of the land.

The rate of access of rural women to the land is still lower in the Program Ballot of the Land.

Kindly comment on rural women's access to credit and land and savings cooperatives.

The UNDP programme for rural and economic development involved investments of some 5 million in new projects for land reclamation and integrated rural development.

Women still have less access to land in rural areas because of discriminatory inheritance rights.

Its land area is 69.61 urban, 12.8 rural and 17.57 comprising the Khan Yunis refugee camp.

The Integrated Rural Development Programme (PDRI) covers land improvement and drainage activities and provides commercial credit.

Among the reforms will be tax policies aimed at boosting rural purchasing power, measures to broaden rural land ownership, and technology led programs to raise agricultural productivity.

In theory, and in line with the new rural code, women may own, buy or alienate land.

A budget expenditure of Rs 34.15 billion was earmarked for rural development activities exclusively for irrigation (Rs 25.19 billion), land reclamation (Rs 1.77 billion) rural development (Rs 6.19 billion) and rural electrification (Rs 1 billion) during 2003 04.

Returns from land use projects, for example, could also include the potential to create more sustainable rural livelihoods, enable higher and more resilient agricultural yields, and generate rural employment.

Though farm collectives have remained the owners of rural land, households may obtain all residuals of their production, which creates the necessary incentive to use land productively.

Finally, farmers rights need to be protected, the efficiency of land use must be increased, and policies for acquisition of rural land for urban use should be overhauled.

The participants from west Africa will develop capacities to reflect more critically on land degradation and rural livelihood issues.

In many areas, rural landowners, especially farmers, have received offers to lease their land from these wind power developers.

Telephones are much more accessible in urban areas, with less than a quarter of land lines being in rural areas.

Rural women, as a rule, are poorly informed of their economic rights, particularly the right to the use of land.

Despite efforts to diversify, most households in rural areas still depend on land and natural resources for their basic subsistence.

Ms. Argaña Mateu (Paraguay) said that the Rural Welfare Institute (formerly IBR, now INDER) was working to change the agrarian structure in Paraguay and to help the rural communities gain ownership of land.

Peasants toil inefficiently on tiny plots of land, in a form of disguised unemployment similar to that seen in rural China.

For the biennium 2008 2009, it was decided that CSD sessions should focus on agriculture, rural development, land, drought and desertification.

(g) Tajikistan law does not limit the access of rural women to land or their rights to the use of property.

In Africa, rural land is generally considered to be state owned, and is treated by governments as if it were their own.

Without secure land rights, farmers have little or no access to credit, rural organizations, irrigation systems and other agricultural infrastructure and services.

Anyone who visits Mumbai or other major Indian cities sees how zoning restrictions cause misuse of urban land and limit modernization. Ambiguous property rights, especially to agricultural land, prevent industrialization in rural areas.

The purpose of the Rural Development Foundation is to help agricultural producers and other enterprises in rural areas by granting them additional securities to obtain loans from credit institutions for developing economic activities and purchasing of land.

China s entire reform process started with the adoption of the so called rural household contract system, which leases productive land to farm households.

Rural hydraulic projects, which ensure access to water for these populations over large stretches of land, can prove to be efficient conflict prevention tools.

In November 2003, still from the perspective of expanding rural women's access to land, the government presented the Second National Plan for Agrarian Reform.

Long standing issues relating to land property, land scarcity, and the lack of economic alternatives to agricultural activities are important bottlenecks in the economic reinsertion of returning refugees, the majority of whom are of rural origin.

The UNU Institute for Natural Resources in Africa will organize a pilot multidisciplinary course in Ghana, Land degradation and management in a rural livelihoods context .

The Documentation Program understands that obtaining these documents as a necessary step to integrate the rural women into policies of development and access to land.

Hu and Wen have cancelled national agricultural taxes, made rural schooling free, launched a new rural medical insurance plan, and guaranteed that, since there is still no title for holding private agricultural land, peasants are entitled to renew their long term leases.

But they cannot do so without secure access to land and water as well as to rural financial services to pay for seed, tools, and fertilizer.

On location in Phnom Pehn and the rural village of Anluk Leak, I was able to explore the cinematic beauty of this land from the sky.

Although more women than men lived in rural areas and 54 per cent of the women were engaged in agriculture, they apparently did not own land.

Thus, the process was precarious and difficult to implement, and as a result of the existence of a hierarchical system for rural land, based on a gender perspective in wherein the ownership of land was naturally a men's right.

Ownership and use of land was another problem requiring resolution, not only because land was essential to the rural population, who were mostly indigenous people, but also because it held a special place in the world view of indigenous peoples.

If rural workers have financial difficulties, which in other countries often lead to land sales, they can work harder to find other jobs or seek government help.

In 2004 the Carnegie UK Trust established a Commission of Inquiry into the future of rural community development examining such issues as land reform and climate change.

The small piece of land allocated under the rural household contract system may not make farmers rich, but it serves as a social safety net of last resort.