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Agriculture and Climate Justice

Oxfam pan Africa programme actively supports broader and thematic efforts that address citizens freedom from hunger, right to food, land ownership and climate justice.

Women's land rights and livelihoods key to Africa trade

The African Union’s blueprint for transforming the continent wants to see fully empowered women with equal access and opportunity in all spheres of life. The ambition is for African women to have equal economic rights, including owning and inheriting property such as land, signing a contract, and...

Africa Is Soo Rich In Farmland – So Why Is It Still Hungry?

It’s been more than two months since it rained in Nakuru County, Kenya, and Jane’s bean crop is long gone. Her only hope on her small plot of 0.8 hectares is the maize crop – but it will also be gone if it doesn’t rain in the next two weeks. In a normal year, it would have rained for three...

Protect rural women’s land rights and they will pull Africa’s economy out of the COVID-19 pandemic

Ask any small holder farmer in Africa about their experience with the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and you are more likely to sample a story of personal economic decline than a near-death health experience with COVID-19. Movement restrictions imposed by governments to slow down the coronavirus...

Is the Security of Tenure for Women Secured in the 'Africa we Want'?

What is the position of women in Africa 57 years after the formation of the African Union? How would the world look like if women had secure access, and control of their land, and natural resources? Would the food crisis be managed differently during emergencies, like the big one we are now living...

Valerie Mukangerero (53 yrs) walks to her pineapple farm in Rwamurema village, Eastern Rwanda, Kirehe District. Credit: Aurelie Marrier d'Unienville / Oxfam

Securing land rights for women: A critical pathway to realising gender equality in Africa

In Africa, land is an indispensable asset, yet, unnuanced, land belongs to men. This is despite women growing 70 percent of the food that feeds the continent. The World Bank estimates that just under 13 percent of African women claim sole ownership of land, compared to 36 percent of African men.