Women’s land rightsin southern africa
Consolidated baselinefindings from Malawi,Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe
© Niza & ActionAid InternationalOctober 2009
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Tinyade Kachika
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Everjoice Win (ActionAid International), Warigia Kamau (AAIRegional Office for Eastern and Southern Africa), Gerinke Fountain (NiZA)
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Academy Design Partners, London
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This report presents the consolidated findings from five national baseline studiesthat were undertaken in 2009 in Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia andZimbabwe. We thank all who contributed to producing the report: national consultantswho worked on the country baseline studies and Joke Oranje for the support providedto them; the national Project Coordinators of the Woman & Land Rights Project whoworked on the country baseline studies and shared their findings and critiques duringthe regional baseline meeting in June 2009; valuable recommendations and commentsprovided by Beata Musabyemariya, Baishali Chatterjee and Everjoice Win.This report has been produced with the financial assistance of the Dutch Ministry ofForeign Affairs through the MDG3 Fund. The views expressed herein are those of theauthor and can therefore in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the DutchMinistry of Foreign Affairs.
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Table of boxes 2 Acronyms 3Executive summary 6Introduction 8Chapter 1: the legal and policy situation relating to women’sland rights in southern africa 11
1.1 Land policies and programmes: how are theypromoting and protecting women’s rights? 111.2 Locating women’s land rights within nationallegal rameworks 131.3 Conclusion 17
Chapter 2: women farmers speak out which land rights arebeing enjoyed or not? 18
2.1 Signifcance o land to women 182.2 Signifcance o land versus under utilisation o land or income generation 202.3 The real issues aecting women’s access, controland ownership o land 222.4 Conclusion: what women want in a nutshell 31
Chapter 3: potential springboards to the realisationof women’s land rights: the current status 34
3.1 Accessibility and quality o justice 343.2 Availability o agricultural extension services andsustainable arming inputs 373.3 Availability o arming associations 393.4 Participation o women in key decision making structures 403.5 Conclusion 42
Chapter 4: baseline trends and key conclusions 44
4.1 The trends 444.2 Key conclusions 50
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