Securing property rights for women and men in rural Benin (English)

Women in Sub-Saharan Africa are less likely than men to own land. They also use less land and have lower tenure security over the land that they use. This gap is costly in terms of lost productive output. The early results showed that improved tenure security through land demarcation increased long-term investments in cash crops and trees and erased the gender gap in land fallowing - a key soil fertility investment. It is important that interventions...

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Goldstein,Markus P.;

Houngbedji,Kenneth;

Kondylis,Florence;

O'Sullivan,Michael B.;

Selod,Harris;
Document Date
2016/02/01
Document Type
Brief
Report Number
103188
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Benin,
Region
Western and Central Africa,
Disclosure Date
2016/02/10
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
Doc Name
Securing property rights for women and men in rural Benin
Keywords
tenure security

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Goldstein,Markus P.; Houngbedji,Kenneth; Kondylis,Florence; O'Sullivan,Michael B.; Selod,Harris.

Securing property rights for women and men in rural Benin (English). Policy brief|issue no. 14 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/803771467991943736

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