Women's Right to Land Between Collective and Individual Dimensions. Some Insights From Sub-Saharan Africa

Women represent a large part of the 2.5 billion people who depend on lands managed through customary, community-based tenure systems and are especially reliant commons for their lives livelihoods. They have very often limited unsecured access to land natural resources tend be excluded from decisions concerning them. Far representing homogenous group, they face varying challenges that result multiple intersecting forms discrimination, whereby gender dynamics intersect with other characteristics, such as age, disability, ethnic origin, or socioeconomic status. Peasant indigenous women, in many instances, compounded impact lack recognition violation collective rights communities, which is legacy histories colonization, conquest, dispossession patriarchal norms, exacerbated by neoliberalism commodification resources. The nexus between individual one particular importance, but has received attention, including regards gendered effects human violations rights. In present article, peasant women illustrated considering experience surrounding implementation Sub-Saharan Africa women's right land. article argues best protected interventions aimed at guaranteeing both There need take into account address simultaneously barriers regard well These include those ascribed discrimination social, economic political marginalization suffered peoples related power structures within outside Addressing these requires respect, protection fulfillment careful analysis interaction