Land tenure in Tigray: How large is the gender bias?

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This study finds that female-headed households have 23% smaller owned landholdings and 54% smaller operational landholdings. Differences in characteristics such as age, labor, oxen and previous divorce explain less than half the differences in landholding sizes, while the remaining can be attributed to differences in returns to these characteristics. This indicates that there is a gender bias in access to land, even after land reforms that intended to strengthen women's rights. The main policy recommendation is to further gender-sensitize the land certification process, strengthen women's opportunities to cultivate their land and continue the process of securing women's tenure rights.

Object Details

• ISBN: 978-82-7490-215-2
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Centre for Land Tenure Studies Working Paper ; No. 05/13

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination ; Land Ownership and Tenure; Land Reform; Land Use; Irrigation; Agriculture and Environment
• Subject: Ethiopia ; property rights ; discrimination ; Oaxaca decomposition

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Dokken, Therere
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Centre for Land Tenure Studies (CLTS)
• (where): Ås
• (when): 2013

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/242712
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET