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"This volume explores the gendered dimensions of recent land governance transformations across the globe, shedding important light on how the intersection of these complex contemporary forces are reconfiguring livelihoods and impacting women's positions, their tenure security and their well-being. It brings together empirical community case studies from around the world that describe, historicize, and situate land (or land-based resource) governance transformation processes as a product of contemporary forces and country/regional specificities. Each contribution carefully analyzes the gendered dimensions of these transformations exploring how women are impacted by and respond to these processes of change"--

This book explores the gendered dimensions of recent land governance transformations across the globe in the wake of unprecedented pressures on land and natural resources. These complex contemporary forces are reconfiguring livelihoods and impacting women's positions, their tenure security and well-being, and that of their families. Bringing together fourteen empirical community case studies from around the world, the book examines governance transformations of land and land-based resources resulting from four major processes of tenure change: commercial land based investments, the formalization of customary tenure, the privatization of communal lands, and post-conflict resettlement and redistribution reforms. Each contribution carefully analyses the gendered dimensions of these transformations, exploring both the gender impact of the land tenure reforms and the social and political economy within which these reforms materialize. The cases provide important insights for decision makers to better promote and design an effective gender lens into land tenure reforms and natural resource management policies. This book will be of great interest to researchers engaging with land and natural resource management issues from a wide variety of disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, development studies, and political science, as well as policy makers, practitioners, and activists concerned with environment, development, and social equity.

Preliminary Materials /Aderanti Adepoju , Ton Van Naerssen and Annelies Zoomers -- 1 International Migration And National Development: An Introduction To Policies In Sub-Saharan Africa /Annelies Zoomers , Aderanti Adepoju and Ton Van Naerssen -- 2 Perspectives On International Migration And National Development In Sub-Saharan Africa /Aderanti Adepoju -- 3 African Brain Drain And Gain, Diaspora And Remittances: More Rhetoric Than Action /John Oucho -- 4 Experiences With International Migration, New Policy Directions And Viewpoints From Burkina Faso /Annelet Broekhuis -- 5 Migration Management:Mozambique's Challenges And Strategies /Inês Raimundo Oucho -- 6 Contemporary Patterns, Trends And Development Implications Of International Migration From Botswana /Thando Gwebu -- 7 Governance Of Migration In Senegal: The Role Of Government In Formulating Migration Policies /Maguemati Wabgou -- 8 International Migration, National Development And The Role Of Governments: The Case Of Nigeria /Hein De Haas -- 9 The Migration Debate In Kenya /Marcel Rutten and Koki Muli -- 10 Migration And Development In The Philippines /Fabio Baggio -- 11 The New Heroes And Heroines Of North America: Remittances And Local Development In Mexico /Marianne Marchand -- 12 Migration, Diaspora Abd Development: The Case Of The People's Republic Of China /Maggi Leung -- 13 International Migration Policies And The Fight Against Poverty: Some Final Reflections /Annelies Zoomers and Aderanti Adepoju -- 14 Searching For Appropriate Migration Policies: A Summary Of Concrete Policy Initiatives /Annelies Zoomers and Aderanti Adepoju -- About The Authors /Aderanti Adepoju , Ton Van Naerssen and Annelies Zoomers -- Index /Aderanti Adepoju , Ton Van Naerssen and Annelies Zoomers.