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    Land and Water Access for Women of the Locality of Velingara – Senegal

    Gaye, Docteur Awa, Papa Gallo Sow, Ousseynow KA, Abdoul Aziz Ndiaye, Martial Coly Bop, Fatou Omar Sy Ndiaye, Alioune Badara Tall, et al. 2014. “Land and Water Access for Women of the Locality of Velingara – Senegal.” Science Journal of Sociology and Anthropology 2014: 1-8.

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    Topics: Economies, Environment, Gender, Women, Infrastructure, Water & Sanitation, Rights, Land Rights, Property Rights, Women's Rights Regions: Africa, West Africa Countries: Senegal Keywords: water access, land access, economic growth, women's poverty

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    Nigeria: Illegal Logging & Forest Women’s Resistance

    Johnson, Christiana O. 2003. “Nigeria: Illegal Logging & Forest Women’s Resistance.” Review of African Political Economy 30 (95): 156–62.
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    Topics: Economies, Poverty, Extractive Industries, Gender, Women, International Organizations, Rights, Land Rights, Property Rights, Women's Rights Regions: Africa, West Africa Countries: Nigeria

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    Interrogating Large Scale Land Acquisition and Its Implication on Women in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Case Study of Ghana

    Darkwah, Akosua K., Peace A. Medie, and Maame Gyekye-Jandoh. 2017. “Interrogating Large Scale Land Acquisition and Its Implication on Women in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Case Study of Ghana.” Working Paper No. 401/August 2017. The Consortium on Gender, Security and Human Rights, Boston, MA.

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    Topics: Economies, Economic Inequality, Environment, Gender, Women, Gendered Power Relations, Gender Equity, Land Grabbing, Livelihoods, Rights, Land Rights, Property Rights, Women's Rights Regions: Africa, West Africa Countries: Ghana

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    Property Rights and the Gender Distribution of Wealth in Ecuador, Ghana and India

    Deere, Carmen Diana, Abena D. Oduro, Hema Swaminathan, and Cheryl Doss. 2013. “Property Rights and the Gender Distribution of Wealth in Ecuador, Ghana and India.” Journal of Economic Inequality 11 (2): 249–65.

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    Topics: Economies, Economic Inequality, Gender, Gendered Power Relations, Gender Equality/Inequality, Rights, Human Rights, Land Rights, Property Rights, Women's Rights Regions: Africa, West Africa, Americas, South America, Asia, South Asia Countries: Ecuador, Ghana, India Keywords: inheritance regimes, marital regimes, women's property rights, asset ownership, wealth in developing countries

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    Land Grabbing, Social Differentiation, Intensified Migration and Food Security in Northern Ghana

    Nyantakyi-Frimpong, Hanson, and Rachel Bezner Kerr. 2017. “Land Grabbing, Social Differentiation, Intensified Migration and Food Security in Northern Ghana.” The Journal of Peasant Studies 44 (2): 421-44.

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    Topics: Agriculture, Gender, Households, Livelihoods, Rights, Land Rights, Property Rights, Women's Rights, Security, Food Security Regions: Africa, West Africa Countries: Ghana Keywords: land grabbing, gender relations, peasant class differentiation, food security, Ghana

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    Women’s Land Rights in Africa: Does Implementation Match Policy?

    Sulle, Emmanuel, Sue Mbaya, Barbara Codispoti, Josephine Atananga, Bernard Moseti, and Leah Mugehera. 2019. “Women’s Land Rights in Africa: Does Implementation Match Policy?” Paper presented at Conference on Land Policy in Africa, 2019: Winning the fight against Corruption in the Land Sector: Sustainable Pathway for Africa’s Transformation, Abidjan, November 25-29.

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    Topics: Corruption, Gender, Gendered Power Relations, Patriarchy, Gender Hierarchies, Land Tenure, Governance, Constitutions, NGOs, Rights, Land Rights, Property Rights Regions: Africa, Central Africa, East Africa, Southern Africa, West Africa Countries: Cameroon, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Togo

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    Can Integrated Agriculture-Nutrition Programmes Change Gender Norms on Land and Asset Ownership? Evidence from Burkina Faso

    Van den Bold, Mara, Andrew Dillon, Deanna Olney, Marcellin Ouedraogo, Abdoulaye Pedehombga, and Agnes Quisumbing. 2015. “Can Integrated Agriculture-Nutrition Programmes Change Gender Norms on Land and Asset Ownership? Evidence from Burkina Faso.” The Journal of Development Studies 51 (9): 1155–74.

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    Topics: Agriculture, Gender, Gender Roles, Gendered Power Relations, Rights, Land Rights, Property Rights Regions: Africa, West Africa Countries: Burkina Faso

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    Revisiting the World Bank’s Land Law Reform Agenda in Africa: The Promise and Perils of Customary Practices

    Collins, Andrea, and Matthew I. Mitchell. 2018. “Revisiting the World Bank’s Land Law Reform Agenda in Africa: The Promise and Perils of Customary Practices.” Journal of Agrarian Change 18 (1): 112–31.
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    Topics: Conflict Prevention, Displacement & Migration, Conflict, Gender, Gendered Power Relations, Gender Equality/Inequality, Land Tenure, Governance, International Financial Institutions, International Organizations, Rights, Land Rights, Property Rights Regions: Africa, East Africa, West Africa Countries: Ghana, Tanzania Keywords: customary practices, Ghana, land law reform, World Bank, Tanzania, Africa

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    "Re-claiming" Land in The Gambia: Gendered Property Rights and Environmental Intervention

    Schroeder, Richard A. 1997. “‘Re-claiming’ Land in The Gambia: Gendered Property Rights and Environmental Intervention." Annals of the Association of American Geographers 87 (3): 487-508.

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    Topics: Environment, Gender, Women, Rights, Land Rights, Property Rights Regions: Africa, West Africa Countries: Gambia Keywords: land reclamation, Gender, agroforestry, resource tenure, political ecology, environmental interverntion

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    Exploring the Connections: Land Tenure, Social Identities, and Agrobiodiversity Practices in Ghana

    Awanyo, Louis. 2009. “Exploring the Connections: Land Tenure, Social Identities, and Agrobiodiversity Practices in Ghana.” Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography 91 (2): 137–55. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0467.2009.00311.x.

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    Topics: Economies, Gender, Land Tenure, Livelihoods, Political Economies, Rights, Land Rights, Property Rights Regions: Africa, West Africa Countries: Ghana Keywords: agrobiodiversity, Gender, Ghana, income, kinship, land tenure security

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