Global Trends in Land Tenure Reform

Caroline S. Archambault is an anthropologist and Senior Researcher in the International Development Studies Group at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Annelies Zoomers is a human geographer and Professor of International Development Studies at Utrecht University, the Netherlands.

Introduction Part 1: From Communal to Private: Family and Land Alienation? 1. "One doesn't sell to one's parents" Gendered experiences of shifting tenure regimes in the agricultural plan of the Sais in Morocco 2. Aging Ejidos in the Wake of Neo-Liberal Reform: Livelihood predicaments of Mexican Ejidatarias 3. Pastoral Land Prvaitization and Women's Well-Being among the Maasai of Southern Kenya 4. Ensuring that Poor Rural Women Benefit from Forestland Reforms in China: Fieldwork findings and policy recommendations Part 2: From Customary to Customary: Codifying Patriarchy? 5. Cameroon's Community Forests Program and Women's Income Generation from Non-Timber Forest Products: Negative impacts and potential solutions 6. Indigenous Land Struggles in Argentina: A gendered perspective 7. Joint Land Titles in Madagascar: The gendered outcome of a "gender neutral" land tenure reform 8. Land Titling and Women's Decision-Making in West Bengal Part 3: From Conflict to Peace: An Opportunity for Gender Reconstrcution? 9. Reproducing Patriarchy on Resettled Lands: A lost opportunity in reconstituting women's land rights in the fast track land reform program in Zimbabwe 10. Resigning Their Rights? Impediments to women's property ownership in Kosovo 11. Strengthening Women's Land Rights while Recognizing Customary Tenure in Northern Uganda Part 4: From Local Subsistence to Global Commercialization: The Masculinization of Rural Space? 12. We Want What the Ok Tedi Women Have! Guidance from Papua New Guina on women's engagement in mining deals 13. Gender, Land and Agricultural Invesments in Lao PDR 14. Commercial Pressures in a Gendered Perspective: Residential tourism in Costa Rica 15. Conclusion