The Gender and Equity Implications of Land-Related Investments on Land access, Labour and Income-Generating Opportunities

dc.coverageZambia
dc.date2023-04-27T11:21:13Z
dc.date2023-04-27T11:21:13Z
dc.date2013
dc.date2019-05-30T10:07:36.0000000Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T20:16:44Z
dc.descriptionIn recent years, Zambia has witnessed increased interest from private investors in acquiring land for agriculture. As elsewhere, large-scale land acquisitions are often accompanied with promises of capital investments to build infrastructure, bring new technologies and know-how, create employment, and improve market access, among other benefits. But agricultural investments create risks as well as opportunities, for instance in relation to loss of land for family farmers. While much deba te on ‘land grabbing’ has discussed risks and opportunities in an aggregate way, it is critical to understand the distribution of the costs and benefits created by an investment project. For example agricultural investments create gendered outcomes that are poorly understood. Gender inequalities in Zambia, as seen across much of Sub-Saharan Africa, shape access to land, agricultural assets, inputs, services and rural employment opportunities. These gender inequalities are partially res ponsible for the underperformance of the agricultural sector. Investments in the agriculture sector must therefore account for and challenge these inequalities if they are to deliver their stated benefits.
dc.format62
dc.formatapplication/pdf
dc.identifier9789251076149
dc.identifierhttp://www.fao.org/documents/card/en/c/21b8f51b-091e-5f16-8131-d12d647f3e7f
dc.identifierhttps://fao-prod.atmire.com/handle/20.500.14283/AQ536E
dc.identifierhttp://www.fao.org/3/a-aq536e.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/189655
dc.languageEnglish
dc.rightsFAO
dc.titleThe Gender and Equity Implications of Land-Related Investments on Land access, Labour and Income-Generating Opportunities
dc.titleThe Gender and Equity Implications of Land-Related Investments on Land access, Labour and Income-Generating Opportunities
dc.titleA Case Study of Selected Agricultural Investments in Zambia
dc.typeBook (stand-alone)

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