Women in Senegal face immense obstacles to individual land acquisition and control. Land inaccessibility is a problem that leads to limitations on women's economic productivity and food security. Women in Senegal can access land through associations and groups of women, but this is not sufficient for guaranteeing continuity and independence of land control.

Local and international organizations highlight the positive effects of women's communal land use. Yet Fatou Diop Sall, sociologist and coordinator of a research project on gender and society at the University of Gaston Berger in Senegal, emphasizes that having access only through groups limits women's capacity as large-scale producers. Through this model, many women are limited to small-scale production and so only incrementally increase their economic growth and independence.

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