Interrogating Large-Scale Land Acquisition and its Implication on Women’
An IDRC funded project
The Centre is currently working on a project titled, 'Interrogating Large-Scale Land Acquisition and its Implication on Women'-an IDRC (International Development Research Centre) sponsored research project which seeks to investigate how and under what circumstances women can be empowered to effectively participate in the processes of large-scale land acquisition in order to ensure better accountability and legitimacy in land governance in sub-Saharan Africa. Thus, the project seeks to explore the de jure and de facto ways in which land transitions between rural traditional leaders and global capital takes place and the ways in which different constituencies (women and men in the communities, NGOs and state officials) contest these practices.
As part of this, a project launch/an inception of the project was organised on May 15, 2014 at YIRI Lodge to bring aboard stakeholders and experts on the issue to discuss the project in detail in terms of methodology, research questions, possible research sites and advocacy efforts.