'With increased migration of men to cities for jobs, there is increasing feminisation of agriculture across Asia. Yet women's ownership of land remains unequal.' Via TRF_Stories
UDAIPUR, India, Oct 2 - Women, lower-caste and indigenous people across Asia are failing to benefit from land reform laws because of custom and deep-rooted social biases, land rights activists said on Wednesday.
"Recognition of indigenous lands has become increasingly difficult as commercial pressure on land grows, and land reforms fail to recognise how assets are controlled in households where women are excluded," the executive director said. "There is a mindset that land must be in the name of men," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation at a land forum in Udaipur city in the western state of Rajasthan.
While widows can legally inherit their husband's property, in Rajasthan widows are customarily not allowed to leave the house for a month, or even a year, and so can miss the deadline to transfer the title within 30 days of a death, she said.
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