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Title: | Women and Land in Zambia: A Case Study of Small-Scale Farmers in Chenena Village, Chibombo District, Central Zambia |
Author: | Kajoba, Gear M. |
Year: | 2002 |
Periodical: | Eastern Africa Social Science Research Review (ISSN 1027-1775) |
Volume: | 18 |
Issue: | 1 |
Period: | January |
Pages: | 35-61 |
Language: | English |
Notes: | biblio. refs. |
Geographic terms: | Zambia Southern Africa |
Subjects: | women farmers customary law land law small farms Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Development and Technology Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Women's Issues Economics and Trade agriculture Cultural Roles Sex Roles Agriculture, Agronomy, Forestry women land tenure government policy subsistence farming |
External link: | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/eastern_africa_social_science_research_review/v018/18.1kajoba.pdf |
Abstract: | This paper assesses the position of small-scale women farmers in Chinena village (Chibombo District, Central Province, Zambia). Field research was conducted in order to ascertain women farmers' current status in terms of the following issues: access to agricultural land; availability of productive assets, food security and strategies of coping with insecurity; the need for land tenure security; the need for more information on the acquisition of title deeds and women's future perspectives on the provisions of the 1995 Land Act and its assumed empowerment of female farmers; and how the process of individualization of land tenure can be harmonized with traditional authority to avoid disruption of relatively peaceful social relations in a rural community. The paper concludes that women farmers tend to obtain or have access to land through their husbands, parents or other male relatives. However, in Chinena, an effort is made by the headman to allocate land to women heads of households on their own merit. What is remarkable is that women farmers have devised creative ways of coping with food insecurity. Adaptability is crucial for sustained independence and viability, as some women are quite successful. Bibliogr., sum. |