Marian Amissah-Ocran is a Gender and Land Consultant for Landesa based in Accra, Ghana where she is spear-heading efforts to map out the women’s land rights network on the African continent and exploring how various stakeholders can leverage advocacy efforts to further share women’s land rights’ goals. She is a member of the 2016 cohort of the Landesa Center for Women’s Land Rights’ Visiting Professionals Program, which aims to strengthen women’s land rights through the development of global networks of professionals and organizations collaborating on women’s land rights.
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The Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI) launched an Alumni Profile Series in which alumni of CCSI’s Executive Training on Sustainable Investments in Agriculture are interviewed about their career paths.
Land Rights Provide Stability and Security for Women Living with HIV
By Marian Amissah-Ocran
First, Maame Kraba was diagnosed with HIV. Shortly thereafter, her husband died of the disease. For Maame, a young mother of two children living in Western Region, Ghana, her husband’s death marked an abrupt change in her family’s circumstances, one that would put her rights to land in jeopardy.