Across Africa, Latin America and Asia, land is a key productive and reproductive resource for the vast majority of rural women. Yet in the present global context of increasing pressures, women are both likely to be affected differently to men by large-scale land deals and also disproportionately more likely to be negatively affected than men because they are generally vulnerable as a group. The paper is based on a review of the literature on commercial pressures on land to date and an analsis of the Global Study’s country case studies from a gender perspective. International Land Coalition. (The QED Group LLC)
