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3 March 2017
By: Samira Larbie Date: 3 March 2017 Source: GBN Senye Wuo II, Adumadum Awisahene of Akyem Awisa, has asked government to show more commitment to land right issues to enable rural women farmers to have access, own and control land. She said this was important as the impact of women related issues
27 February 2017
Date: 27 February 2017 Source: New China In Namibia's northern Omusati region, Esra Kuutumbeni toils on her pearl millet field as she hopes for improved yields of the staple crop, following a dry spell the preceding year. "I wake up early to work on my field to ensure that weeds do not
8 February 2017
By: Utpal Parashar  Date: 8 February 2017 Source: Hindustan times Nagaland has been on the boil for two weeks now over municipal elections that were to be held on February 1.
3 February 2017
By: Anastasia Moloney Date: 3 February 2017 Source: Reuters Across Latin America just one percent of farms and estates control more than half of the region's productive land. Giving women access to land in Guatemala is key to forging lasting peace and tackling inequality, Nobel peace
2 February 2017
By: Nellie Peyton Date: 1 February 2017 Source: Manitoba Co-Operator Female-led work is vital to rural communities in Senegal — now women are organizing 
to lead the fight against multinational agribusiness.
30 January 2017
By: Soumaila Diarra Date: 30 January 2017 Source: Reuters W earing a long white tunic covered with bright-coloured patterns, Aminata Berthe bends to water a plot of lettuce with a can in this village near Bamako, the Malian capital.
27 January 2017
By: Shikha Sreenivas Date: 21 January 2017 Source: The Ladies Finger 
27 January 2017
By:Malva Izquierdo Date: 27 January 2017 Source: Reuters Three decades after Nicaragua launched the first of many reforms aimed at giving women equal land rights, experts say rural women remain exploited and open to disinheritance, violence and abuse.
20 January 2017
By: Paola Totaro Date: 20 January 2017 Source: Reuters Kosovo is to revolutionise its land laws and will, for the first time, clearly define formal ownership and encourage women to inherit and own land in their own right.
28 June 2016
By: Melany Grout Date: 28 June 2016 Source: News Deeply More than 400 million women around the globe are farmers, but many have no rights to the land they till. Securing those rights is crucial if the world wants to reach its development goals, writes land tenure specialist Melany Grout.
By: Srinivasa Rao Apparasu  Date: 7 January 2017 Source: Hindustantimes Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao is having sleepless nights, and the reason is a young woman advocate bent on ensuring justice for farmers “wronged” by the state government.
By: Holly Miller Date: September 16th 2016 Source: Women's Agenda Imagine being told you couldn’t own something because you’re a woman. Being kicked from your land and your home for not being a man.   

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