Gender equity in the World Bank's land administration projects : why is it important to provide women with rights pertaining to land? (Anglais)

One of the most serious impediments to increasing the agricultural productivity and income of rural women is their lack of security of land tenure. Land tenure refers to a set of rights that a person or entity holds in land. The rights can also exist ... Voir la suite One of the most serious impediments to increasing the agricultural productivity and income of rural women is their lack of security of land tenure. Land tenure refers to a set of rights that a person or entity holds in land. The rights can also exist in a variety of forms such as leases on public land or user rights to communal property. An important caveat in this context is that formal systems of property rights, which simply do not exist in many developing countries, are taken for granted in advanced nations. If tenure is secure, the holder can reasonably expect to use the land to its best advantage, and make management decisions on how land-based resources will be used for immediate household needs and as a long-term sustainable investment. Lack of title, often the problem of women farmers typically implies lower productivity levels and yields because of weak incentives for sustainable land management and soil conservation, little interest in investing in permanent crops, and lack of collateral for credit for farm inputs. Although the number of female-headed households has increased to almost a third in developing countries, women have clear ownership of only about 5 percent of all land. For women farmers, responsible for 60 to 80 percent of food production in developing countries, access to land, management and control of land-based resources, and economic incentives that security of tenure provides, are essential for their exit from poverty to sustainable livelihoods.  Réduire