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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> WUNRN_LISTSERVE-owner@lists.wunrn.com [mailto:WUNRN_LISTSERVE-owner@lists.wunrn.com]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>WUNRN LISTSERVE<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, October 14, 2017 9:58 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> WUNRN ListServe <wunrn_listserve@lists.wunrn.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [WUNRN] Women's Land Rights as a Pathway to Poverty Reduction<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">WUNRN<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">IFPRI – International Food Policy Research Institute: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.ifpri.org/publication/womens-land-rights-pathway-poverty-reduction-framework-and-review-available-evidence">http://www.ifpri.org/publication/womens-land-rights-pathway-poverty-reduction-framework-and-review-available-evidence</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">WOMEN’S LAND RIGHTS AS A PATHWAY TO POVERTY REDUCTION<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Direct Link to Full 80-Page 2017 Publication</span></b>:
<a href="http://agri.ckcest.cn/ass/NK001-20170911004.pdf">http://agri.ckcest.cn/ass/NK001-20170911004.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#54544B;background:#F5F4F0">Land is an important asset for rural households, and having secure land rights is important for poverty reduction.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#54544B;background:#F5F4F0"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#54544B;background:#F5F4F0">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.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#54544B;background:#F5F4F0"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#54544B;background:#F5F4F0">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#54544B;background:#F5F4F0"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#54544B;background:#F5F4F0">Thus, it is the land rights of households, not women, that matter for poverty reduction. However, growing evidence that households do not pool
resources completely and that women have fewer assets than men warrants attention to the potential role of WLR in poverty reduction. 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. It uses a systematic review search methodology to identify papers for inclusion, but adopts a more synthetic approach
to assess the level of agreement and the amount of evidence within this literature.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#54544B;background:#F5F4F0"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#54544B;background:#F5F4F0">The paper examines the evidence from qualitative as well as quantitative studies on each of these pathways. Owing to the scarcity of experimental
studies, the review of empirical work is based mostly on observational studies. We find some evidence on these relationships, but many of the key pathways have not been empirically analyzed. The evidence is strong for relationships between WLR and bargaining
power and decision making on consumption, human capital investment, and intergenerational transfers.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#54544B;background:#F5F4F0"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#54544B;background:#F5F4F0">There is a high level of agreement, but weaker evidence on the relationship between WLR and natural resource management, government services
and institutions, empowerment and domestic violence, resilience and HIV risk, and consumption and food security.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#54544B;background:#F5F4F0"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#54544B;background:#F5F4F0">There is less agreement and insufficient evidence on the associations between WLR and other livelihoods, and a higher level of agreement, but
still limited evidence on associations between WLR and credit, technology adoption, and agricultural productivity. Notably, we find no papers that directly investigate the link between WLR and poverty. 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.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#54544B;background:#F5F4F0"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#54544B;background:#F5F4F0">Many studies are limited by small sample sizes, the lack of credible counterfactuals, lack of attention to endogeneity and selection bias, and
possible response bias on questions of domestic violence and empowerment. There are very few rigorous evaluations of reforms that strengthened WLR. 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. Different modalities and mechanisms for strengthening WLR could be tested, with appropriate counterfactuals. Program designers and evaluators can strategically identify
pathways and outcomes where evidence gaps exist, and deliberately design studies to close those gaps.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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