tailieunhanh - Land Tenure, Gender And Globalisation - Research And Analysis From Africa, Asia And Latin America

Drawing from field research in Cameroon, Ghana, Vietnam, and the Amazon forests of Brazil, Bolivia, and Peru, this book explores the relationship between gender and land, revealing the workings of global capital and of people's responses to it. A central theme is the people's resistance to global forces, frequently through an insistence on the uniqueness of their livelihoods. For instance, in the Amazon, the focus is on the social movements that have emerged in the context of struggles over land rights concerning the extraction of Brazil nuts and babacu kernels in an increasingly globalised ma. | Land Tenure Gender and Globalisation This page intentionally left blank Land Tenure Gender and Globalisation Research and Analysis from Africa Asia and Latin America Edited by Dzodzi Tsikata Pamela Golah zubaan An imprint of Kali for Women International Development Research Centre Ottawa Cairo - Dalai Montevideo Nairobi New DelhiSingapore Land Tenure Gender and Globalisation Research and Analysis from Africa Asia and Latin America Edited by Dzodzi Tsikata and Pamela Golah Jointly published 2010 by zubAAn an imprint of Kali for Women 128 B Shahpur Jat 1st floor NEW DElHi 110 049 Email zubaan@ and zubaanwbooks@ Website ISBN 978 81 89884 72 7 and International Development Research Centre PO Box 8500 Ottawa ON KIG 3H9 Canada info@ ISBN 978-1-55250-463-5 e-book International Development Research Centre 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Zubaan is an independent feminist publishing house based in New Delhi with a strong academic and general list. It was set up as an imprint of India s first feminist publishing house Kali for Women and carries forward Kali s tradition of publishing world quality books to high editorial and production standards. Zubaan means tongue voice language speech in Hindustani. Zubaan is a non-profit publisher working in the areas of the humanities social sciences as well as in fiction general non-fiction and books children and for young adults under its Young Zubaan imprint. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic mechanical photocopying or otherwise without the prior permission of Zubaan and the International Development Research Centre. This book may be consulted online at Typeset by RECTO Graphics 432 C DDA Flats Gazipur Delhi 110 096 Printed at Raj Press R-3 Inderpuri New Delhi 110 012 Contents Foreword Ann Whitehead vii 1 Introduction Dzodzi Tsikata 1 2 Gender Land Tenure and .