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:
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Family nutrition and health improves;
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Women become less vulnerable to contracting HIV/AIDS;
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HIV-positive women may be better able to cope with the consequences of AIDS;
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Women may be less likely to be victims of domestic violence;
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Children are more likely to receive an education and stay in school longer;
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Women may have better access to micro-credit;
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Women’s participation in household decision-making increases.
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.
Извор: WUNRN – 14.07.2014
