This document summarizes a presentation given at the United Nations' Forty-Ninth Session of the Commission on the Status of Women about strengthening women's property rights. It discusses the complexity of land and water rights, findings from research showing the importance of women's secure property rights and assets for increasing agricultural productivity, household welfare, women's decision-making power, and project sustainability. It then outlines some ways to strengthen women's property rights through legal reform, community programs, collective action, technology interventions, and access to credit and inputs. It concludes with recommendations to reform and monitor legal institutions to achieve gender equity in property rights and develop technologies to increase returns to women's labor in agriculture.