The Times of Zambia (Ndola)
Aubrey Musuumba
13 May 2008
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Mr Machila said the ministry has noted that apart from illiteracy and discriminatory customs and culture, fewer women have access to land because of lack of information on procedures to acquire such land as well as knowledge on its availability.
To this end, he said the ministry has put in place a policy which requires that at least 30 per cent of the plots which have been created be allocated to women.
Further, the women are also allowed to compete for the allocation of plots with men from the remaining 70 per cent.
There is an urgent need to address the plight of women, as a disadvantaged group, to have better access to land.
Better access not only to land as a means of production, but access to land as a right. There is therefore need to revisit existing institutional mechanisms to ensure that rights to land are acknowledged as basic human rights and that women's equal rights are effectively incorporated into land policy and tenure programmes.
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