Abstract
Women’s land rights feature prominently in contemporary policy debates on agrarian change and gender transformation in Africa, although often accompanied by a certain weary scepticism about what this prominence signifies. On the one hand, policy-makers invoke women as an important category for attention, while on the other hand, analysts and activists regularly denounce the gap between high-level policy commitments and implementation. This exchange has become predictable, conventionalised. The 2009 endorsement by African Union (AU) Heads of State of the Framework and Guidelines on Land Policy in Africa offers a recent example of formal recognition at the highest level of the importance of women’s land rights, as both a human rights issue and a developmental imperative for the continent. Clause 2.5.2 of the Framework notes:
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