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Women's Land Rights in The Gambia: Socio-legal review

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Title Women's Land Rights in The Gambia: Socio-legal review
 
Creator Monterroso, I.
Enokenwa Baa, Ojongetakah
Paez Valencia, Ana Maria
 
Subject gender
land tenure
 
Description This socio-legal analysis provides an overview of existing land governance arrangements in The Gambia as they relate to women’s access to land and resources. It discusses two different types of land tenure interventions: title deeds and certification. These inventions vary according to different types of recognized rights-holders and the area in which rights are being formalized. Access to and control over land and other productive resources in The Gambia is shaped by complex tenure systems. Coexisting and interacting customary systems and statutory regulations are influenced by reform processes, with differentiated effects in rural and urban areas. Rights to resources are often negotiated across multiple rights-holders, overlapping tenure regimes and resource systems. Despite important progress through legislative reforms, implementation has been slow and prevailing barriers and gaps continue to influence the recognition of women’s land rights and their ability to benefit from them.
 
Date 2021-11-01
2021-11-10T02:46:25Z
2021-11-10T02:46:25Z
 
Type Book
 
Identifier Monterroso, I., Enokenwa, O. and Paez-Valencia, A.M., 2021. Women's Land Rights in The Gambia: Socio-legal review. Securing Women’s Resource Rights Through Gender Transformative Approaches. Bogor, Indonesia and Nairobi, Kenya: CIFOR-ICRAF and International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). https://doi.org/10.17528/cifor/008262
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/115931
https://www.cifor.org/publications/pdf_files/Books/Socio-legal-review-Gambia.pdf
https://doi.org/10.17528/cifor/008262
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Publisher CIFOR-ICRAF and International Fund for Agricultural Development