Women's Access to and Control Over Land: The Case of Zimbabwe
It was not until the 1970s that the importance of inproving the Status of women through access to land began to be viewed as an integral part of the solution to the problems of less developed countries, This recognition was brought about by a number of factors. There was a greater appreciation of the crucial links between the food crisis and the increasing marginalisation of women, who comprised the majority of the subsistence food producers in sub-1 Saharan Africa. Social science research contributed significantly towards the raising of awareness of the importance of women's contributions to the labour intensive and low technology farming systems of sub-Saharan Africa.
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