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A Woman's Field Is Made At Night: Gendered Land Rights And Norms In Burkina Faso
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Gendered social norms and institutions are important determinants of agricultural activities in southwestern Burkina Faso. This paper argues that gendered land tenure, in particular, has effects on equity and efficiency. The usual view of women as holders of secondary, or indirect, rights to land must be supplemented by a more nuanced understanding of tenure. Women's rights are in fact considerably more complex than the simple right to fields from their husbands. First, women's rights to property obtained from men may be coupled with other rights and obligations. In many ethnic groups, women have share rights to the harvest of their husbands. Second, despite land scarcity and rises in land value certain types of rights are strengthening. Specifically, women are more and more able to obtain land through the market. Finally, government intervention in the gendering of tenure seems to have eroded women's individual rights to land even when government projects explicitly try to incorporate women as "partners" in land-use programs.
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“They also suggest that women's claims to land are not justified solely through the recognition of their obligations in food production, but that local-level land-management fora make moral and material evaluations of inputs and behaviour between male and female household members over a very wide spectrum when adjudicating land claims”
From Policy Discourses on Women's Land Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Implications of the Re-turn to the Customary (2003) · cites this paper as Kevane and Gray 1999
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“The content and direction of the arguments that women make are also highly context-specific, although one recurring powerful set of arguments seems to be that the performance of their social obligations, including those to their husbands, but also to other relatives, builds up claims.”
From Policy Discourses on Women's Land Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Implications of the Re-turn to the Customary (2003) · cites this paper as Kevane and Gray (1999)
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- Kevane, M., & Gray, L. C.
- Venue
- Feminist Economics
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 1999-01
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 1-26
- ISSN
- 1354-5701
- 1466-4372
- Cited by
- 110
- References
- 84
- Language
- en
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