Women Struggle to Secure Land Rights
Hard Fight for Access and Decision-Making Power
Categories: Human Rights, Statebuilding
Sub-Categories: Economic Participation, Political Transitions
Country: Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Year: 2012
Citation: Kimani, Mary. Women Struggle to Secure Land Rights: Hard Fight for Access and Decision-Making Power. New York: Africa Renewal, 2012.
Sub-Categories: Economic Participation, Political Transitions
Country: Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Year: 2012
Citation: Kimani, Mary. Women Struggle to Secure Land Rights: Hard Fight for Access and Decision-Making Power. New York: Africa Renewal, 2012.
Abstract
Women in Africa frequently lack land rights or access, despite supplying the majority of farm labor and food production. Different efforts to improve African women’s access to land and land rights have met with varying success in an array of African nations.