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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:
1.
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;
2.
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
3.
Gender issues must not be subsumed within the broader debate on CPL.