EVENT: Brown Bag Lunch on Women’s Land Rights at the World Bank on October 25

The Agriculture Global Practice, the Land Thematic Group and the Gender and Rural Development Community of Practice (GENRD) invite you to join us for a presentation and discussion of IFPRI’s work on Women’s land rights as a pathway to poverty reduction: A framework and review of available evidence by Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Agnes Quisumbing, Cheryl R. Doss, and Sophie Theis.

To RSVP please send your name, organization and email address to Leigh Hammill, shammill@worldbank.org; copied to Victoria Stanley, vstanley@worldbank.org

Chair:
Jorge Muñoz, Practice Manager, Global Unit for Land and Geospatial

Presenters:
Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute
Agnes Quisumbing, Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute

Discussants:
Markus Goldstein, Lead Economist, Africa Region
Talip Kilic, Senior Economist, Living Standards Measurement Study Program

Land is an important asset for rural households, and having secure land rights is important for poverty reduction. Despite the large body of literature on the relationship between land tenure security, livelihoods, and poverty, most of this literature is based on household-level data and does not consider possible intrahousehold inequalities in land ownership. We know very little about the relationship between women’s land rights and poverty, not only because data on women’s land rights (WLR) are rare, but also because of the implicit assumption that women belong to households that pool resources completely.

This paper reviews the literature on WLR and poverty reduction. It adapts the Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project (GAAP) conceptual framework to identify pathways by which WLR could reduce poverty and increase wellbeing of women and their households in rural areas. Many gaps in the evidence arise from a failure to account for the complexity of land rights regimes, the measurement of land rights at the household level, the lack of attention paid to gender roles, and the lack of studies from countries outside Africa. The paper concludes that gaps in the evidence should not deter the careful design and implementation of programs and policies to strengthen WLR, given the ongoing land tenure reforms in many countries. Program designers and evaluators can strategically identify pathways and outcomes where evidence gaps exist, and deliberately design studies to close those gaps.

To RSVP please send your name, organization and email address to Leigh Hammill, shammill@worldbank.org; copied to Victoria Stanley, vstanley@worldbank.org

The paper they will present and discuss is available here.

EVENT: Brown Bag Lunch on Women’s Land Rights at the World Bank on October 25

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