FAO Water Tenure Mondays - Ruth Meinzen-Dick: "Water Tenure: from Bundles of Rights to Webs of Interest" (25 October 2021, 16:00 CEST)
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This presentation will explore similarities and differences in conceptualizing tenure for water compared with the tenure of land and other natural resources. In particular, it will discuss how the concept of “bundles of rights” can be conceived for water or other resources. The presentation will provide a framework for thinking about overlapping bundles of rights, with illustrations from various cases. If we take tenure as how people relate to each other through a set of formal or informal rules, the concept of “web of interests” emerges as a more appropriate way of thinking of the bundles of rights.
Ruth Meinzen-Dick is a Senior Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). She received her MSc and PhD degrees in Development Sociology from Cornell University. Much of her work has been interdisciplinary qualitative and quantitative research on land and water policy, property rights, governance arrangements, gender analysis, and the impact of agricultural research on poverty, drawing on fieldwork in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and Zimbabwe.
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The webinars are held in English with simultaneous interpretation to French.
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