Single women, land and livelihood vulnerability in a communal area in Zimbabwe

Single women, land and livelihood vulnerability in a communal area in Zimbabwe
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 295
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ISBN-10 : 9789086867004
ISBN-13 : 9086867006
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Download or read book Single women, land and livelihood vulnerability in a communal area in Zimbabwe written by Gaynor Gamuchirai Makura-Paradza and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-09-04 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been limited research on single women in customary tenure areas. Single women's experiences have been marginalized in research that focuses on notions of property, male headed domestic units and relies on normative research methods to investigate resource access in the communal farming areas of Zimbabwe. This work focuses on the hearth-hold as a domestic unit and uses innovative research methods to investigate how women outside the marriage institution negotiate access to land, livelihood resources and make decisions to cope with livelihood vulnerability in customary tenure areas. The research illustrates through a focus on pathways and rural-urban connections how single women make decisions to secure livelihoods under fast changing conditions. The findings that patriarchy is only one but not the only institution governing land access in customary tenure areas and that women have more room to negotiate land access in communal areas especially through entitlements, family obligations and exploitation of multi-layered tenure systems are some of the publication's contribution to knowledge on single women, customary land tenure and livelihood vulnerability.


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