Besides insecurity, land rights hamper Nigerian women’s farming efforts (Premium Times)

Premium Times (Nigeria) published an article on the role gender plays in land ownership. While women farmers contribute about 70 percent of food production in the country, according to the FAO, land rights discrimination, fueled by social, economic, and cultural factors, affects their productivity.  Head, Africa Region, Jemimah Njuki stated, “It’s one of the key issues that we have to grapple with: how to support women smallholder farmers, how to make sure they actually have the productive resources that they need to transform food systems, how to ensure they actually have right to the land that they cultivate.” (Reach 484K) Also published in Head Topics.