Sircar, Ashok
(2016)
Women’s right to agricultural land : removing legal barriers for achieving gender equality.
Policy brief/note.
Oxfam, New Delhi.
Abstract
Women’s land rights (WLR) have been and continue to be a live agenda in social development discourse of India. The importance of WLR has been discussed in the context of agriculture; poverty reduction; reduction in gender based violence; women’s well-being and agency. There now exists a vast academic literature and experience of collective action to point that women’s land rights can significantly contribute to achieving greater gender equality. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) capture the above under three targets that are connected to the goals of ending poverty and hunger, and of achieving greater gender equality.1 This policy brief outlines the gaps that exist in the realisation of women’s land rights on agricultural land and calls for immediate collective action aimed at removing the structural barriers in inheritance, leasing, and joint ownership of privately held land in favour of women.
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Monograph
(Policy brief/note)
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| Authors: |
Sircar, Ashok |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: |
Agriculture, Land rights, Women farmers, Women’s land rights, Gender equality, Land laws, India |
| Subjects: |
Social sciences |
| Divisions: |
Azim Premji University > School of Development |
| Full Text Status: |
Public |
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This publication is copyright abut the text may be used free of charge for the purposes of advocacy, campaigning, education, and research, provided that the source is acknowledged in full. The copyright holder requests that all such use be registered with them for impact assessment purposes. For copying in any other circumstances, permission must be secured. E-mail: policy@oxfamindia.org. Oxfam India, a fully independent Indian organization, is a member of an international confederation of 17 organizations. The Oxfams are rightsbased organizations, which fight poverty and injustice by linking grassroots interventions to local, national, and global policy developments. |
| URI: |
http://publications.azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/id/eprint/170 |
| Publisher URL: |
https://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/... |
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