Want feminist development that builds climate resilience? Then we have to talk about land and water rights

Anandita GhoshClimate Change, Gender & Development Journal, Land rights

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 at broader themes, including the way deprivation of land rights adds to women’s care workload – and, crucially, how securing women’s land and water rights will be essential for global food security and climate resilience.

You can’t talk about palm oil without talking about land rights – and colonialism

Oxfam NovibIndigenous People, Land rights, Private sector

​​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 documentar​y, Colonial Debris.​ ​​