Women to get 10 percent of land

Zambian women are to get 10 percent of all future land allocations, the government was quoted in news reports as saying on Wednesday.

According to the reports the government said that this was seen as a way of “economically empowering” women. But, gender activists were quoted as saying that “this does not go far enough” and that women needed more than 50 percent of all land allocations, because “women constitute the majority of all food grain producers in the country.” The chief registrar of titles and deeds Abdu Khan was quoted as saying that “it was now the deliberate policy of government to enable women to have title to land and in this way encourage them as tillers to have the means of accessing credit and loans.”