Land use right for women in rural areas

Protection of children and young persons against discrimination based on their descent 334 336 75

1985 1988 Deputy Minister of Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement

Many women (heads of households, rural teachers and physicians) receive plots.

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Source Special Project for Rural Land Titling and Property Registration (PETT), Ministry of Agriculture.

The rate of access of rural women to the land is still lower in the Program Ballot of the Land.

In rural areas, land is the most highly valued asset. Land speculation, however, continues to be restricted.

The right to enter marriage by consent 310 315 71

In many areas, rural landowners, especially farmers, have received offers to lease their land from these wind power developers.

The use of rural land for housing is regulated by Ordinance No. 2 of the Minister of Territorial Development and Construction and the Minister of Agriculture (1993), setting out procedures for building housing on rural land this is allowed only for satisfying the housing needs of the land owner or the individual using the land.

Rural, indigenous and migrant women

The preliminary bill establishes procedures to facilitate access to land ownership for peasants who do not own any land or sufficient land and to promote rural development.

The Bangladesh Kishani Sabha is an organization of women farmers that works with landless women.

She wondered whether women had benefited from land redistribution, what percentage of women held land rights in their own name and what the proportion of women working in rural areas was relative to men.

One Working Group also addressed Rural Populations Group of the land.

It notes the need for rural women s participation in land reform programmes.

(b) Agriculture land cover and suitability, productivity and yield, rural management, soil conservation

Differences between urban and rural indigenous dwellers should also be provided.

Tribal or communal land forms a large part of rural Botswana and falls under the jurisdiction of statutory Tribal Land Boards.

Ms. Argaña Mateu (Paraguay) said that the Rural Welfare Institute (formerly IBR, now INDER) was working to change the agrarian structure in Paraguay and to help the rural communities gain ownership of land.

Other measures included agricultural projects, projects to improve the situation of rural women and a programme for granting land title to indigenous people living in urban areas.

53. The out migration of youth from the countryside is creating an age imbalance in rural areas.

25. Facilitate rural women apos s access to land, credit, technology and training.

In the Ministry of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform, the Rural Women's Development Unit works in accordance with a programme designed to meet the needs of rural women in all governorates country wide, namely the advice programme for the development of rural women, which integrates the strategic core concerns for the development of rural women into programmes of action.

The UNDP programme for rural and economic development involved investments of some 5 million in new projects for land reclamation and integrated rural development.

(a) Illiteracy rates Blacks, 43 per cent in rural areas and 23.2 per cent in urban areas Whites, 20 per cent in rural areas and 7.3 per cent in urban areas

Recognizing the critical role and contribution of rural women, including indigenous women, in enhancing agricultural and rural development, improving food security and eradicating rural poverty,

The situation is markedly worse among rural populations, women and the indigenous population.

Kindly comment on rural women's access to credit and land and savings cooperatives.

The major development for rural women is the Communal Land Reform Act.

Rural women have access equal to that of men to land resources and credits.

The poorest segment of the rural population must be given increased access to land, technology and credit.

While the Law legalized the restitution of agricultural land to the original owners, it also provided for the use of such land for meeting both the food requirements of the population as a whole and the individual needs of landowners and farmers.

WOMEN IN RURAL AREAS

ARTICLE 14 Women in rural areas

IFAD has played a unique role in the United Nations system, as a leading institution with financial assistance focused strictly on the rural poor smallholder farmer, the landless and, in particular, rural women in low income countries.

Employment of women in rural areas

Recognizing the critical role and contribution of rural women, including indigenous women, in enhancing agricultural and rural development, improving food security and eradicating rural poverty,

Adaptation of the institutions of the agricultural sector (DRI Fund, ICA, CORPOICA, INPA, INAT, Agrarian Credit Fund, COMCAJA and INCORA)

Particularly, with a view to improving gender equality and position of women in rural areas, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) adopted a Gender Strategy in Agriculture and Rural Development to 2010 and Gender Plan of Action in Agriculture and Rural Development to 2005.

In theory, and in line with the new rural code, women may own, buy or alienate land.

The representative of the Asian Non Governmental Organizations Coalition for Agrarian Reform and Rural Development also made an intervention.

In the Ministry of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform, the Rural Women's Development Unit runs a programme designed to meet the needs of rural women in all governorates country wide by integrating the development of rural women into programmes of action as a main strategic concern.

458. The Special Project for Rural Land Titling and Property Registration (PETT), established under the eighth provision of the Ministry of Agriculture Organization Act, has the purpose of encouraging and supporting rural land owners without discrimination as to sex with a view to the rationalization and regularization of land ownership over a period of four years.