"www.fao.org/about/meetings/sustainable-food-systems-nutrition-symposium The International Symposium on Sustainable Food Systems for Healthy Diets and Improved Nutrition was jointly held by FAO and WHO in December 2016 to explore policies and programme options for shaping the food systems in ways that deliver foods for a healthy diet, focusing on concrete country experiences and challenges. This Symposium waas the first large-scale contribution under the UN Decade of Action for Nutrition 2016-2025. This presentation was part of Parallel session 3.3: Empowering women as key drivers of food system change"

2. «ENABLING GENDER EQUITABLE
ACCESS TO PRODUCTIVE
AGRICULTURAL RESOURCES IN
TAJIKISTAN»
2 DECEMBER 2016
Nodira Sidykova
Deputy chief of party and Legal aid director
USAID Land Reform and Farm restructuring project

3. USAID Land Reform and Farm Restructuring Project’s Purpose:
Supporting the continuing progress of dehkan farm restructuring and
recognition of property rights leading to a market in land-use rights
Task 1: Promoting legislative
reforms
Task 2: Building capacity of
public officials, farmers, NGOs,
and other beneficiaries
Task 3: Expanding awareness
of land rights and farm
restructuring
Task 4: Providing legal
consultations and legal aid

4. Promoting legislative reforms.
Implementing and
strengthening the
rights of land users
through the adoption
of normative and
legal acts
Creating a unified
system of
registration of rights
and transactions
with land
Granting land users
the right of alienation
and its legal
approval
Facilitating the development
of land-use rights market
Providing gender equality
to land

5. Trainings for LACs and female rural activists

6. “Considering Land Disputes in Court: Resolving Land Related Disputes
in Economic Court”

7. During its
activities,
Project
developed and
produced 22
booklets in total
of 138,519
copies

8. Study tour to Sughd region for 50 female farmers from Khatlon
region

9. “Women’s Right to Land: Capacity Building of Female Leaders in
Tajikistan”

10. Farm restructuring
6,927 female
dehkan
farms
received
certificates
on land-use
right

11. Participating in court proceedings
25
525 land disputes
5 property disputes
Total of 30 court
proceedings
 830 female land users restored their land rights upon court decisions
 750 ha of land were returned to female land users
 88,000 land users received help from USAID Land Reform and Farm
Restructuring Project, 55 % of whom were women.