Women’s land titling is recognized as an important tool to promote women’s
empowerment in agriculture, as well as a means to fight poverty. However,
most rural women still have low access to land, despite their crucial role in
the agricultural sector. This paper uses the National Demographic and Health
Survey (2011) to investigate the role female land rights have in promoting their
empowerment - expressed in terms of decision-making power - in Nepal. Our
results demonstrate that women ’s final say within the household increases with
land ownership.