Many Nigerian communities still operate the traditional and family inheritance system of land ownership that gives preference to male children.
In Nigeria, gender plays a critical role in land ownership. While women farmers contribute about 70 per cent of food production in the country, according to the, land rights discrimination, fuelled by social, economic and cultural factors, affects their productivity.
Hundreds of kilometres away in Lagos, Nigeria’s economic capital, Dumola Sodeke was not that fortunate. Even with her father and uncle as fronts, she could not lease let alone buy land. In urban centres, 4.5 percent of the women have access to land while 49.5 percent of men own land. Amongst the urban poor population, 5.9 percent of the women have land compared to 28 per cent of their male counterparts.
The director for Africa at the International Food Policy Research Institute, Jemimah Njuki, said, “It’s one of the key issues that we have to grapple with: how to support women smallholder farmers, how to make sure they actually have the productive resources that they need to transform food systems, how to ensure they actually have right to the land that they cultivate.
Susan Godwin, a yam farmer, owned a 30-hectare farm back in her home in Tudun Adebu, in the North-central state of Nasarawa, but had to desert it after a communal clash between her community and a neighbouring community. Currently, she cultivates groundnut, millet and maize while she exempts yam because it does not grow well in Lafia as in Tudun Adebu, her ancestral community.
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