Millions of women across the globe farm and look after land – yet are excluded from owning it, hurting their incomes, depriving them of wealth and undermining their other basic rights. Anandita Ghosh and Shivani Satija on a wide-ranging issue of the Oxfam-edited Gender and Development journal that not only examines structural obstacles to women owning land but also looks …
You can’t talk about palm oil without talking about land rights – and colonialism
Indonesians fighting against exploitation of their land for palm oil must confront both powerful corporate interests and an extraordinary level of state control over land that can be traced back to the colonial era. Here, we share observations from those who took part in a recent panel discussion about palm oil and land rights*, inspired by a hard-hitting new documentary, Colonial Debris.