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    Evaluation of grassroots community–based legal aid activities in Uganda and Tanzania: Strengthening women’s legal knowledge and land rights by Peterman, Amber, Billings, Lucy, Behrman, Julia A.

    Published 2013
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    Ethiopia's Feed the Future (FtF) Supplemental Land Tenure Survey, 2019 by International Food Policy Research Institute

    Published 2022
    “…Questionnaire modules related with land related legal knowledge and advice, and land rental market participation were administered separately for the head and spouse. …”
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    Mozambique's Supplemental Land Tenure Survey, 2015 by International Food Policy Research Institute

    Published 2022
    “…Questionnaire modules related with access to land, land related legal knowledge, intra-household bargaining power were administered separately for the head and spouse. …”
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    Patrimonial violence: A study of women’s property rights in Ecuador by Deere, Carmen Diana, Contreras, Jacqueline, Twyman, Jennifer

    Published 2014
    “…Research in Ecuador on the extent to which women are aware of their property rights and the situations in which patrimonial violence is most likely to occur shows that, while most women seem to be aware of certain fundamentals, there are many misconceptions, particularly regarding the status of individual property. Women’s lack of legal knowledge often undermines their ability to obtain their rightful share of the division of property upon separation, divorce, or widowhood. …”
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    Second-tier community forestry organisations and equitable resource management in the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala by Millner, N., Penagaricano, I., Fernández, M., Snook, Laura K.

    Published 2016
    “…Using a ‘Sociology of Knowledge' approach to discourse analysis (SKAD), we highlight three important dimensions of ACOFOP's evolving strategy that facilitate the development of both local autonomies and collective coherence: the mobilisation of concepts of ‘environmental justice' and associated international rights frameworks to link local concerns with national governance issues; the elaboration of legal knowledges and mechanisms in these terms to negotiate improved tenure relationships; and a concentration of resources in the development of local leadership with an emphasis on elaborating the fixed ‘rules' of forestry management in a manner that is appropriate to each community's individual characteristics. …”
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