Integrating a gender perspective in the right to food 2016, para. 24
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Inheritance is often the main avenue for women's land acquisition, yet women are still less likely to inherit land than men. Inheritance is often determined through marriage practices. Through patri-linearism, which is the most common societal system, sons, rather than daughters, inherit land from their fathers. Even where bilateral inheritance practices exist, communities may favor customary patrilineal practices. This is so in the case of the Mossi community in Burkina Faso "where despite the fact that the majority of families are Muslim, meaning that in theory daughters inherit land, this practice is not observed."
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Non-negotiated soft law
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Special Rapporteur on the right to food
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Special Procedures' report
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N.A.
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Harmful Practices
Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
Families
Men
Women
Year
2016
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Other
Reference
SR Food, Report to the HRC (2016), A/HRC/31/51, para. 24.