WUNRN
http://www.landesa.org/women-and-land/
WOMEN & LAND
RIGHTS
When women have secure
rights to their land, they are better able to provide for their family’s needs
– especially those of their children. Studies show the linkages when women have
secure rights to land:
Women produce nearly half
of the food grown in the developing world. Often, they do not have secure
rights to the land they farm and are denied equal rights to access, inherit, or
own it. As a result, these women are at an increased risk of losing their
source of food, income, and shelter should they lose their only link to the
land they till: husbands, fathers, or brothers taken by illness,
violence, or migration.
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