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gender equity

Fairness of treatment for women and men according to their respective needs. A gender equity goal often requires measures to rectify the imbalances between the sexes, in particular to compensate for the historical and social disadvantages of women. Equity can be understood as the means, where equality is the end. Equity leads to equality.

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Reports & Research
March 2023
Global

El informe Situación de la mujer en los sistemas agroalimentarios proporciona los datos más recientes, las lecciones aprendidas y las recomendaciones para los encargados de formular políticas y tomar decisiones sobre el género en los sistemas agroalimentarios.

Rice-planting season in Gourdoho, India by Anindya Phani.
Journal Articles & Books
March 2023
India

One of the earliest demands of Indian women’s organisations in the pre-Independence period was the right to be elected to legislative bodies. Yet, almost a century later, a vast gender gap persists in terms of women’s presence at all levels of governance. Why is it important to include women in political and policy decision-making bodies, beyond the issue of equality?

Arab women land rights
Reports & Research
February 2023
Jordan
Lebanon
Saudi Arabia
Syrian Arab Republic
United Arab Emirates

There is a correlation between socio-economic development, human rights and the empowerment of men and women to participate at all levels of decision making. Secure land rights are an important precondition for the achievement of these goals, including and the realisation of a broad spectrum of human rights: adequate housing, equality, food, health, work and education.

Landesa 2022 Annual Report
Reports & Research
January 2023
Africa
Ethiopia
Tanzania
Uganda
Senegal
Colombia
Asia
Cambodia
Indonesia
Bangladesh
India
Global

Land rights are ascendant across the development sector. Movements addressing women’s empowerment, poverty, social justice, food security and climate change are all increasingly turning to land rights to strengthen their cause. In 2022, renowned philanthropist MacKenzie Scott joined these efforts by making an unprecedented $20 million investment in our work. Ms.

Gender, tenure and customary practices in forest landscapes
Reports & Research
December 2022
Cambodia
Indonesia
Laos
Myanmar
Thailand
Vietnam
Nepal

This report is based on 10 research projects carried out in 18 sites in seven countries: Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand and Viet Nam. The studies formed the basis of ten informational briefs from the research sites published together with the report (available here: https://www.recoftc.org/publications/0000432).

Woman watering plants India. Photographer Hamish John Appleby (IWMI)
Journal Articles & Books
December 2022
Asia

Land ownership has long been argued to enhance farm productivity by improving tenure security. But would this hold for female and male owners alike? The relationship between land ownership and productivity has been investigated relatively little from a gender perspective in most regions, with work on Asia being especially sparse.

Pathways for the recognition of customary forest tenure in the Mekong region
Reports & Research
November 2022
Cambodia
Laos
Myanmar
Thailand
Vietnam

Globally, about 2 billion people claim ownership of their homes and lands through a customary tenure system. Customary tenure has long been insecure and is under growing pressure in many places. But it is also increasingly recognized through a variety of mechanisms, formal and informal.

Responsible land-based investments
Manuals & Guidelines
November 2022
Global

This manual aims to provide practical guidance for investors in incorporating responsible land-based investment principles into investor policies and practices and is meant to be used along with the Introductory Guide for Communities, Governments and Investors. It has been written for all three RGIL countries, hoping that it will also be useful for other countries.

revista controversia mujeres rurales
Journal Articles & Books
October 2022
Latin America and the Caribbean
Colombia

Las mujeres del mundo rural están mucho más expuestas que las del urbano a la sobrecarga que las tradiciones de división sexual del trabajo les han impuesto. Su papel en la reproducción social es invisibilizado por la subvaloración “del trabajo reproductivo, productivo y para el autoconsumo” (Fao, 2017, p. 1) y por su baja posibilidad de participación política institucional.

Reports & Research
September 2022
Panama

Es un hecho innegable que las mujeres en Panamá, al igual que en otros países del mundo, han contado con poca participación histórica en la tenencia de tierras. La cultura patriarcal predominante generó relaciones entre hombres y mujeres jerarquizadas, desiguales, inequitativas y discriminantes.