Mali women manoeuvre for land and future
- csrice8
- Aug 23, 2017
- 1 min read
Anthio Mounkoro has been farming land in Bogossoni for as long as she can remember - but none of it was ever hers.
"The land I've been cultivating my whole life is my father's," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
"No woman in my village owns land - that's for men, it's just the way it is."
In Malian society, men control access to land and decide which parts, if any, women are allowed to farm.
That has become especially problematic for women as increasingly erratic weather, including longer droughts, has increased competition for land and harvests, experts say.
Overseas Development Institute
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