[3 October 2011] GENEVA – “Land rights are the first building block on the
road to achieving food security, and without international consensus on how
land should be governed, the interests of vulnerable land users will continue
to be swept aside......"
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http://www.landcoalition.org/publications/strategies-get-gender-agenda-%E2%80%9Cland-grab%E2%80%9D-debate
STRATEGIES
TO GET GENDER ONTO THE AGENDA OF THE LAND GRAB DEBATE
Author:
Elizabeth Daley - 2011
The International Land Coalition (ILC)’s Commercial Pressures on Land
initiative aims to support the efforts of ILC members and other stakeholders to
influence global, regional, and national processes to enable secure and
equitable access to land for poor women and men in the face of increasing
commercial demand. Its global research contains a careful and focused analysis
of the gendered impacts of commercial pressures on land (CPL), and especially
the impacts on women. This concludes that:
Women (and women’s NGOs and CSOs) need to actively and
strategically organise at all levels to get gender issues around CPL on
the table of current and forthcoming processes on regulatory responses; The gendered impacts of CPL need to be seriously
addressed within this process in relation to all four aspects of
women’s vulnerability (systemic discrimination related to land
access, ownership, and control; systemic discrimination related to
decision-making; relative income poverty; and general physical
vulnerability); and Gender issues must not be subsumed within the broader
debate on CPL.