15 Years of Change: Gender, livelihood and resource access changes in a matrilineal part of Sumatera

Abstract

The theory of induced innovation (Hayami and Ruttan1985) argue that both technological and institutional innovation that scare resources occur in response to changing resources endowment. When natural resources became scare, the property right institution evolved from open access to more individualized ownership. This evolution of tenure often erode women’s land right (Lastaria-Cornhiel1997). This study compared two data set in 1997 and 2013 in the matrilineal inheritance system in Sumatera, Indonesia to analyze the implications for gender equity of different patterns of evolution of land tenure and land use decision