{"id":13388,"date":"2021-02-10T12:28:48","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T12:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/?p=13388"},"modified":"2021-02-10T12:42:18","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T12:42:18","slug":"why-focus-on-womens-land-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/why-focus-on-womens-land-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Why focus on Women\u2019s Land Rights?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13390\" src=\"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ntengwe-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2618\" height=\"1470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ntengwe-2.png 2618w, https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ntengwe-2-450x253.png 450w, https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ntengwe-2-1024x575.png 1024w, https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ntengwe-2-768x431.png 768w, https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ntengwe-2-1536x862.png 1536w, https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ntengwe-2-2048x1150.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2618px) 100vw, 2618px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Ntengwe for Community Development leads the way<\/h3>\n<p>Land is considered a major source of wealth, social status and power. In African countries where women are the major work force on agricultural land, the security of their rights over this key resource is often denied them.<\/p>\n<p>This is what drove AWDF grantee partner, Ntengwe for Community Development to undertake this incredible initiative to improve access to land rights for women in four African countries: Kenya, Uganda, Zimbabwe and Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>The results have been phenomenal with life-changing impacts for some of the women in these countries. Click here to read the inspiring report on the Results and impacts of the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/Synthesis-Report_compressed.pdf\">Pathways to Economic Justice on Women\u2019s Land Rights<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/Synthesis-Report_compressed.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13396\" src=\"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/Report-cover.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"854\" height=\"1196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/Report-cover.png 854w, https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/Report-cover-321x450.png 321w, https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/Report-cover-731x1024.png 731w, https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/Report-cover-768x1076.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 854px) 100vw, 854px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ntengwe for Community Development leads the way Land is considered a major source of wealth, social status and power. In African countries where women are the major work force on agricultural land, the security of their rights over this key resource is often denied them. This is what drove AWDF grantee partner, Ntengwe for Community [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":13396,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1020],"tags":[101,531,1292,503],"class_list":["post-13388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-news-blog-group","tag-grantees","tag-impact","tag-womens-land-rights","tag-womens-rights"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why focus on Women\u2019s Land Rights? - The African Women&#039;s Development Fund (AWDF)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/why-focus-on-womens-land-rights\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why focus on Women\u2019s Land Rights? - The African Women&#039;s Development Fund (AWDF)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ntengwe for Community Development leads the way Land is considered a major source of wealth, social status and power. 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