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.
Land is at the heart of women’s rights in the Global South: so why no mention of it in this year’s UN political declaration?
While the landmark Beijing declaration 30 years ago on women’s rights mentioned land rights 30 times, this year’s UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) declaration fails to mention them at all. Naomi Shadrack explains why we need to put land firmly back on the global feminist agenda.
For Climate Finance to Work it Must Consider Women’s Land Tenure Rights
Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals depends on tackling women’s land tenure insecurity in the Global South, writes Wanjiku Wanjohi, Oxfam in Africa’s senior gender advisor.