Document Type
Case Study
Publication Date
2002
Abstract
This edition of SEEDS explores the critical elements in securing effective and independent land rights for women in South Asia. The author presents a range of cooperative strategies for enabling women to retain and cultivate the land and shows how micro-credit and other programs can be redirected to increase the amount and productivity of land women control. Recognizing that new policies and political will are required to foster and sustain such experiments, the author ends with a summary of how women are organizing to place women’s access to land at the center of national and global agendas.
DOI
10.31899/pgy2.1005
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Agarwal, Bina. 2002. "Are we not peasants too? Land rights and women's claims in India," SEEDS no. 21. New York: Population Council.
Project
Adolescent Girls' Programming: Community of Practice
Included in
Family, Life Course, and Society Commons, International Public Health Commons, Place and Environment Commons, Rural Sociology Commons
Comments
Issue no. 21 of SEEDS, a pamphlet series developed to provide information about innovative and practical program ideas to address the economic roles and needs of low-income women.