Q&A: Getting Women's Land Rights Recognized

Mar 19, 2018 | Philippine Sutz
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Philippine Sutz describes work under way to help secure land rights for women in Senegal and Tanzania, and explains how accessing land gives them greater control over their livelihoods.

Philippine Sutz is a senior researcher in IIED's Natural Resources research group. With commercial pressures on land having increased in Senegal and Tanzania over the past 15 years, local communities that have traditionally used this land are losing out. And within those communities, women are bearing the brunt. In this interview she examines legal reform and action to secure land rights for women in Senegal and Tanzania.