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Women's land rights in the context of the land tenure reform in Rwanda – the experiences of policy implementers

Jeannette BayisengeDepartment of Social Work, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, SwedenCorrespondence[email protected] [email protected]
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Staffan HöjerDepartment of Social Work, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, SwedenView further author information
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Margareta EsplingDepartment of Human and Economic Geography, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, SwedenView further author information
Pages 74-90 | Received 29 Dec 2012, Accepted 12 Aug 2014, Published online: 11 Dec 2014

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Kazi Tanvir Mahmud, Fahima Kabir, Jinat Hossain & Dilruba Chawdhury. (2023) Can Land Ownership Really Improve the Economic Status and Decision-Making Capacity of the Rural Women? Evidence from Bangladesh. Journal of Poverty 27:2, pages 166-184.
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Laura A. German & Carla Braga. (2021) Decentering emergent truths on tenure security: Archaeology of a global knowledge regime. The Journal of Peasant Studies 48:6, pages 1228-1259.
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Srijana Koirala. (2022) Women’s Land Ownership and Gender Equality in Nepal. Journal of Applied Social Science 16:2, pages 533-547.
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Ana García-Morán & Julian S. Yates. (2022) In between rights and power: Women’s land rights and the gendered politics of land ownership, use, and management in Mexican ejidos. World Development 152, pages 105804.
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Alfred R. Bizoza & James Opio-Omoding. (2021) Assessing the impacts of land tenure regularization: Evidence from Rwanda and Ethiopia. Land Use Policy 100, pages 104904.
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Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt. (2020) Gendered land rights, legal reform and social norms in the context of land fragmentation - A review of the literature for Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda. Land Use Policy 90, pages 104305.
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Logan Cochrane & Sebsib Hadis. (2019) Functionality of the Land Certification Program in Ethiopia: Exploratory Evaluation of the Processes of Updating Certificates. Land 8:10, pages 149.
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Uchendu Eugene Chigbu. (2019) Anatomy of women’s landlessness in the patrilineal customary land tenure systems of sub-Saharan Africa and a policy pathway. Land Use Policy 86, pages 126-135.
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Christine Bigler, Michèle Amacker, Chantal Ingabire & Eliud Birachi. (2019) A view of the transformation of Rwanda's highland through the lens of gender: A mixed-method study about unequal dependents on a mountain system and their well-being. Journal of Rural Studies 69, pages 145-155.
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Uchendu Eugene Chigbu. (2019) Masculinity, men and patriarchal issues aside: How do women’s actions impede women’s access to land? Matters arising from a peri-rural community in Nigeria. Land Use Policy 81, pages 39-48.
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Jeannette Bayisenge. (2018) From male to joint land ownership: Women's experiences of the land tenure reform programme in Rwanda. Journal of Agrarian Change 18:3, pages 588-605.
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James Mitchell. (2016) Pulling the rug out from under: The land tenure dynamics of mining concessions in sub-Saharan Africa. The Extractive Industries and Society 3:4, pages 1117-1129.
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