| dc.creator | Pala, Achola 0. | |
| dc.date | 2010-11-08T12:53:26Z | |
| dc.date | 2010-11-08T12:53:26Z | |
| dc.date | 1978-04 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-11-09T13:08:45Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-11-09T13:08:45Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 09-11-12 | |
| dc.identifier | Pala, Achola 0. (1978)Women's access to land and their role in agriculture and decision-making on the farm: experiences of the Joluo of Kenya. Discussion Paper 263. Nairobi: Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi. | |
| dc.identifier | http://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/123456789/24 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://41.204.186.116:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/1702 | |
| dc.description | This paper is part of a case study of recent and contemporary
changes in rural. Luq economy and society in Kisumu District of Kenya.
It examines in particular the productive role of .women in regard to
changing patterns in.'access "to land, land use and subsistence agriculture.
The central issue discussed in the paper is women's land rights
in relation to those of men. Special attention is focussed on the land
rigform programme whose implementation is nearing completion in the
district and its impact on access rights of women and men in land.
It is pointed out that the transfer (or intention to transfer)
of the final right to disposS cJfland from a communal (lineage)!'fo an
individual basis has two"structural consequences. ' First./it' creates a
new legal i>asis for the control of the individual over resources
especially because land is the ba^is -of...rural' livelihood in the area.
Second in so far as the registered title holders are' mainly men the
.programme -merely .modernises' the proprietory control over women by men.
More specifically it is pointed-out that weakening of women's usufructory
•rights by the programme is likely to be more disadvantageous for childless
women, women with only daughters and widows in the latter category. | |
| dc.language | en | |
| dc.publisher | Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.relation | Discussion Papers;263 | |
| dc.rights | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ | |
| dc.subject | Work and Labour | |
| dc.subject | Agriculture | |
| dc.subject | Gender | |
| dc.title | Women's access to land and their role | |
| dc.type | Series paper (non-IDS) | |
