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    Grabbing the Female Commons: Large-Scale Land Acquisitions for Forest Plantations and Impacts on Gender Relations in Kilolo District, Iringa Region, Tanzania

    Gmür, Désirée. 2019. “Grabbing the Female Commons: Large-Scale Land Acquisitions for Forest Plantations and Impacts on Gender Relations in Kilolo District, Iringa Region, Tanzania.” In The Commons in a Glocal World: Global Connections and Local Responses, edited by Tobias Haller, Thomas Breu, Tine De Moor, Christian Rohr, and Heinzpeter Znoj, 301–17. Abingdon: Routledge.

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    Topics: Age, Gender, Land Grabbing, Security, Food Security Regions: Africa, East Africa Countries: Tanzania

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    Capital, Labor, and Gender: The Consequences of Large-Scale Land Transactions on Household Labor Allocation

    Hajjar, Reem, Alemayehu N. Ayana, Rebecca Rutt, Omer Hinde, Chuan Liao, Stephanie Keene, Solange Bandiaky-Badji, and Arun Agrawal. 2020. “Capital, Labor, and Gender: The Consequences of Large-Scale Land Transactions on Household Labor Allocation.” The Journal of Peasant Studies 47 (3): 1–23.

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    Topics: Agriculture, Gender, Land Tenure, Health, Mental Health, Households, Land Grabbing, Livelihoods Regions: Africa, East Africa Countries: Ethiopia Keywords: tenure changes, gendered impacts, agricultural investments, Ethiopia

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    The Dark Underbelly of Land Struggles: The Instrumentalization of Female Activism and Emotional Resistance in Cambodia

    Hennings, Anne. 2019. “The Dark Underbelly of Land Struggles: The Instrumentalization of Female Activism and Emotional Resistance in Cambodia.” Critical Asian Studies 51 (1): 103–19.

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    Topics: Civil Society, Gender, Land Grabbing, NGOs, Nonviolence, Political Participation, Rights, Land Rights Regions: Asia, Southeast Asia Countries: Cambodia Keywords: dispossession, land grabbing, gendered eviction, politics of emotion, Cambodia

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    Gender and Equity Questions in the Policy and Practice of Involuntary Resettlement Due to the Acquisition of Land for Large Scale Economic Investments: A Case Study of Two Resettlement Projects in Maputo Province, Mozambique

    Kiambo, W. 2017. Gender and Equity Questions in the Policy and Practice of Involuntary Resettlement Due to the Acquisition of Land for Large Scale Economic Investments: A Case Study of Two Resettlement Projects in Maputo Province, Mozambique. Maputo: Centro Terra Viva.

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    Topics: Gender, Gender Mainstreaming, Gendered Power Relations, Gender Equity, Land Grabbing, Rights, Land Rights Regions: Africa, Southern Africa Countries: Mozambique

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    Gender and Land Grabs in Comparative Perspective

    Levien, Michael. 2015. “Gender and Land Grabs in Comparative Perspective.” In Gender Equality and Sustainable Development, edited by Melissa Leach, 105-32. Abingdon: Routledge.

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    Topics: Gender, Land Grabbing

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    Land Grabbing: A Gendered Understanding of Perceptions and Reactions from Affected Communities in Nguti Subdivision of South West Cameroon

    Ndi, Frankline A. 2019. “Land Grabbing: A Gendered Understanding of Perceptions and Reactions from Affected Communities in Nguti Subdivision of South West Cameroon.” Development Policy Review 37 (3): 348–66.

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    Topics: Gender, Masculinity/ies, Land Grabbing, Livelihoods, Political Economies, Rights, Land Rights, Women's Rights, Security, Food Security Regions: Africa, Central Africa Countries: Cameroon Keywords: Cameroon, feminist political ecology, gender perceptions and reactions, land grabbing, large-scale land acquisition, rural livelihoods

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    Land Grab, Property Rights and Gender Equality in Pluralistic Legal Orders: A Nigerian Perspective

     Nwapi, Chilenye. 2016. “Land Grab, Property Rights and Gender Equality in Pluralistic Legal Orders: A Nigerian Perspective.” African Journal of Legal Studies 9 (2): 124–46.

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    Topics: Gender, Gendered Power Relations, Gender Equality/Inequality, Governance, Justice, Land Grabbing, Rights, Land Rights, Women's Rights Regions: Africa, West Africa Countries: Nigeria Keywords: land grab, customary law, statute law, legal pluralism, gender inequality, Property Rights

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    Making Women’s Voices Count in Community Decision-Making on Land Investments

    Salcedo-La Viña, Celine, and Maitri Morarji. 2016. “Making Women’s Voices Count in Community Decision-Making on Land Investments.” Working Paper, World Resources Institute, Washington, D.C.

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    Topics: Gender, Women, Gendered Power Relations, Gender Equity, Land Grabbing, Rights, Land Rights, Women's Rights Regions: Africa, East Africa, Southern Africa, Asia, Southeast Asia Countries: Mozambique, Philippines, Tanzania

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    Post-Earthquake Land Appropriations and the Dispossession of Rural Women in Haiti

    Steckley, Marylynn, and Joshua Steckley. 2019. “Post-Earthquake Land Appropriations and the Dispossession of Rural Women in Haiti.” Feminist Economics 25 (4): 45-67.

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    Topics: Environment, Environmental Disasters, Gender, Women, Households, Land Grabbing, Livelihoods, Rights, Land Rights, Women's Rights Regions: Americas, Caribbean countries Countries: Haiti Keywords: women's labor, primitive accumulation, agrarian transition, Haiti, earthquake, land grabs

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    New Agribusiness Investments Mean Wholesale Sell-out for Women Farmers

    Tandon, Nidhi. 2010. “New Agribusiness Investments Mean Wholesale Sell-out for Women Farmers.” Gender & Development 18 (3): 503–14.

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    Topics: Agriculture, Gender, Women, Globalization, Land Grabbing, Security, Food Security Keywords: land-grab, food prices, women farmers, commodity futures trading

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