Rural women in Kenya contribute to 70% of food production. In rural areas Land rights tend to be held by men or kinship groups controlled by men and women have access mainly through a male relative, usually a father or husband. What rural women want, is their basic rights to own land and equal rights of property ownership to be respected as it is clearly stipulated in the law. To address land rights, we must first address the unequal power relations within families. However, the government needs to improve their technical and financial capacity to implement the land laws.

Source: Standard Digital April 23, 2017 06:56 UTC