Women’s Land Rights and Privatization in Eastern Africa

In the context of increasing privatization and land reform these case studies reveal how reforms impact on women's rights to land and how these rights are contested or upheld.

In the context of increasing privatization and land reform these case studies reveal how reforms impact on women's rights to land and how these rights are contested or upheld.

This volume focuses on the impact on women's land rights from the contemporary drive towards the formulation and implementation of land tenure reforms which aim primarily at the private registration of land. It is solidly groundedin the findings from seven case studies, all based on in-depth qualitative research, from various regions of Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda. The detailed, local level research in this volume not only challenges the status quo, but demonstrates that another world is possible and documents the many ways women in Eastern Africa are finding to ensure their rights to land.
BIRGIT ENGLERT is Assistant Professor in the Department of African Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria; ELIZABETH DALEY is an independent land consultant.
Uganda: Fountain Publishers(PB); Kenya: EAEP(PB); Tanzania: E&D Vision Publishing(PB)

Foreword - Robin Palmer
Introduction: Women's land rights & privatization - Birgit Englert and Elizabeth Daley
Breathing life into dead theories about property rights in rural Africa: lessons from Kenya - Celestine Nyamu Musembi
'Go home & clear the conflict': human rights perspectives on gender & land in Tanzania - Ingunn Ikdahl
Genderuenyeji, wealth, confidence & land in Kinyanambo: the impact of commoditization, rural-urban change & land registration on women's land rights in Mufindi District, Tanzania - Elizabeth Daley
Changing land rights & gendered discourses: examples from the Uluguru Mountains, Tanzania - Birgit Englert
Falling between two stools: how women's rights to land are lost between state law & customary law in Apac District, Northern Uganda - Judy Adoko
Falling between two stools: how women's rights to land are lost between state law & customary law in Apac District, Northern Uganda - Simon Levine
Struggling with in-laws & corruption in Kombewa Division, Kenya: the impact of HIV/AIDS on widows' & orphans' land rights - Samwel Ong'wen Okuro
Women & land arrangements in Rwanda: a gender-based analysis of access to natural resources - An Ansoms
Women & land arrangements in Rwanda: a gender-based analysis of access to natural resources - Nathalie Holvoet
Afterword: securing women's land rights