Africa: Women Warn of African Food Crisis

30 October 2001

Human Rights activists yesterday warned that Africa is sinking into a food insecurity crisis because women, the main agricultural producers, are denied access and control of land.

The Participants from Eastern and Southern African countries attending a women's conference on land ownership in Kampala expressed fear that the continued denial of land ownership and control to women would plunge the disadvantaged continent into a food crisis.

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