FEBRUARY 2011 – 2010 findings from 2010 survey of 17-provinces in rural China show that reforms have boosted farm incomes but significant challenges remain. China continues to boost economic development in the countryside by extending secure land tenure rights to its 200 million farming families, according to findings from a 17 province survey, published in the 2011 Chinese Academy of Social Sciences’ Rule of Law Blue Book. | View report online | Download PDF

2006

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2002

This report summarizes findings on women’s access to land ownership in West Bengal, India based on three rounds of research conducted in 2001 and 2002. It provides recommendations for changes in government policy and law to increase the number of women landowners and to strengthen the security of women’s access to land owned by their households. | download PDF

2006

How can they be protected and strengthened as the Land Law is implemented?
The report provides research findings of women’s current land rights, including the rights of women widowed from HIV/AIDS and the Rwandan genocide. The report also discusses Rwanda’s new body of land legislation, Landesa’s efforts to develop complementary land legislation to ensure that women’s land rights are taken into careful account, and suggested next steps. | download PDF

2008

This report explores both the formal and customary laws that affect women’s property rights, examines issues of widowhood, divorce, polygamy and girl’s inheritance and provides recommendations for strengthening women’s rights to land. | download PDF

2009

This study was undertaken by the Rural Development Institute for the World Justice Project. The study reviews the formal and customary laws and practices governing the rights of women to inherit land in six South Asian countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka). The study includes an analysis of existing laws and customs and their impact on inheritance and land rights in all six countries.  It also provides recommendations for how to design interventions that can attempt to improve women’s inheritance rights. | download PDF

2002

An analysis of women’s land rights in Karnataka, India based on a 400 household survey and rapid rural appraisal interviews with rural women and NGO representatives. The report especially concentrates on describing the insecurity and vulnerability of women’s access to land at the time of divorce, separation, and widowhood. It closes by providing recommendations for enhancing rural women’s land rights. | download PDF

2001

A Study of Women’s Land Rights in Dongfang County, Hainan Province

This report discusses women’s rights to land in China, based on field research conducted in January 2000 in Dongfang City of Hainan Province. Granting women in China legal rights to land is unlikely to translate into sustained access and control over land resources unless and until these rights are both socially recognized and adequately enforced. download PDF

2000

Between 1979 and 1983, China made the dramatic transition from a socialist agriculture dominated by large collective farms to a more market-oriented agriculture dominated by small family farms. This report describes the experiment’s background in light of Nanhai’s recent development history, and lays out the details of Nanhai’s experiment. It includes analysis and recommendations based on Landesa’s fieldwork findings and comparative experience | download PDF

2003

During the 1990′s, 6.7 million rural Ukrainians received rights to about 27 million hectares (67 million acres) of agricultural land that had been farmed by the collective and state farms. However, these rights were commonly held “land shares” that proved difficult to use in practice. In response, in 1999 the Government of Ukraine (with foreign aid support) began converting these land shares into privately owned individual land parcels with corresponding title documents. About half of the land shares have been converted thus far. The survey assesses the impact of this land titling effort, and finds that it has provided meaningful benefits to Ukraine’s people. | download PDF