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A Less Gendered Access to Land? The Impact of Tanzania's New Wave of Land Reform

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  • Rasmus Hundsbæk Pedersen

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type="main" xml:id="dpr12121-abs-0001"> Contemporary land reforms in sub-Saharan Africa tend to be evaluated based on the state-centric reforms of the past, which disadvantaged women. However, this article argues that the new-wave of land reforms and their decentralised administration institutions and anti-discriminatory legal frameworks may be different. Based on field research on the implementation of Tanzania's 1999 Land Acts, it identifies an institutional reconfiguration in which the formal institutions are gradually strengthened and the customary institutions slowly changed. This does not in itself pose a threat to women's access to land and some women, who are otherwise often perceived to be weak, are left better-off. Nevertheless, access to land becomes socially more uneven.

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  • Rasmus Hundsbæk Pedersen, 2015. "A Less Gendered Access to Land? The Impact of Tanzania's New Wave of Land Reform," Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute, vol. 33(4), pages 415-432, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:devpol:v:33:y:2015:i:4:p:415-432
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    1. Wineman, Ayala & Liverpool-Tasie, Lenis Saweda O., 2017. "Land Markets and Land Access Among Female-Headed Households in Northwestern Tanzania," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 100(C), pages 108-122.
    2. Lambrecht, Isabel, 2016. "“As a husband I will love, lead, and provide:†Gendered access to land in Ghana:," IFPRI discussion papers 1514, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
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    4. Kabigi, B. & de Vries, Walter T. & Kelvin, H., 2021. "A neo-institutional analysis of alternative land registration systems in Tanzania: The cases of Babati and Iringa districts," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 105(C).
    5. Justin Lusasi & Dismas Mwaseba, 2020. "Gender Inequality and Symbolic Violence in Women’s Access to Family Land in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania," Land, MDPI, vol. 9(11), pages 1-14, November.
    6. García-Morán, Ana & Yates, Julian S., 2022. "In between rights and power: Women’s land rights and the gendered politics of land ownership, use, and management in Mexican ejidos," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 152(C).
    7. Eric Yaw Naminse & Jincai Zhuang, 2018. "Does farmer entrepreneurship alleviate rural poverty in China? Evidence from Guangxi Province," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 13(3), pages 1-18, March.
    8. Biddulph, Robin, 2018. "The 1999 Tanzania land acts as a community lands approach: A review of research into their implementation," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 79(C), pages 48-56.

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