Report on the Policy Symposium Gendered Terrain : Women’s Rights and Access to Land in Africa, Nairobi, September 14-16, 2010

Land distribution is highly skewed in Africa, where women’s ownership of land is a small percentage of that owned by men. Women frequently lack the resources to acquire land in their own right and are further disadvantaged by discriminatory inheritance laws, customary practices and market structures. This report summarizes presentations at the symposium on women’s rights and access to land.