This book through detailed ethnographic methodology investigates the role women play in a post fast track land … environment. The author examines how the hidden access to land, enabled the women to engage in agro based livelihoods and …

Introduction / Govind Kelkar and Maithreyi Krishnaraj -- Part I. Land rights for the farming women in Asia: 1. Policy … formulation, law reform and women's property rights in South Asia / Savitri Goonesekere -- 2. Gender asset gaps and land rights in … for women's economic security and productivity / Govind Kelkar -- Part II: 4. Women's ownership rights and access to land …