Gender and Land Rights Revisited: Exploring New Prospects via the State, Family and Market

By B. Agarwal. 2003

520 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Soil Science

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. A. Angelsen
2. Sven Wunder
3. L. Kenney
4. T. Sunderland
5. P. Panda
6. Diana K. Fletschner
7. M. Buis
8. B. Agarwal

In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. A. Angelsen
2. Sven Wunder
3. L. Kenney
4. P. Panda
5. Diana K. Fletschner
6. R. Babigumira
7. S. Bauch
8. M. Buis

In Soil Science

1. P. Panda
2. A. Angelsen
3. B. Agarwal
4. L. Kenney
5. Diana K. Fletschner
6. R. Babigumira
7. S. Bauch
8. M. Buis

Citations in the corpus

• Exploring gender perceptions of resource ownership and their implications for food security among rural livestock owners in Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Nicaragua (2015, background): “Agarwal [27] argues in favor of individual ownership titles for women because of their flexibility, as well as their validity in case of marital conflict.”
• rethinking agricultural production collectivities (2010, background): “Families transfer land mostly to male heirs, the state transfers land largely to male household heads, and markets favour men over women, since they have more financial resources (Agarwal 1994, 2003).”
• Forest Clearing in Rural Livelihoods: Household-Level Global-Comparative Evidence (2014, background): “, after having controlled for differences in household characteristics and endowments) is often referred to as gender bias or discrimination (Agarwal, 2003).”
• Rural Women’s Access to Financial Services: Credit, Savings, and Insurance (2014, background): “Biased inheritance rights often bestow land to male relatives, leaving both widows and daughters at a disadvantage (Agarwal, 2003).”
• Toward Freedom from Domestic Violence: The Neglected Obvious (2007, background): “16 See, for example,, discussions in Levinson (1989) and Heise (1998).”
• Can group farms outperform individual family farms? Empirical insights from India (2018, unknown): “In fact, helping women’s groups to collectively purchase land for joint cultivation was attempted with some success in the late 1980s, in undivided Andhra Pradesh, where the government introduced a grant-cum-subsidized loan scheme to help scheduled caste women buy land in small groups (Agarwal, 2003”