Farmer’s Land Rights

To promote the land rights of small farmers, especially women, in order to create a sustainable livelihood.

The main participants are women, girls, people with disabilities, farmers and nomad herders in Kilosa and Kiteto districts. The project works with 6.112 people (3.174 women and 2.938 men). Indirectly involved: 70.060 people (41.570 women and 28.490 men) of the rural population.

Together with high population growth, land grabbing exacerbates the existing land shortage and leads to high land prices. National and international agribusiness interests are displacing and driving small farmers and pastoral nomads from their land. They are forced to look for new arable and pasture land, which leads to conflicts. In addition, climate change has severely affected livestock farming. Due to customary laws, women often have to gain access to land through male relatives. When they lose connection to male relatives, whether through death, divorce or emigration, women are particularly at risk of losing their land. All this happens despite the fact that the country's land laws clearly provide for equal rights for women and men.

• Equipping with the necessary knowledge to enter into dialogue with those responsible and to assert their needs and demands regarding land and climate change
• In order to better adapt to climate change, farmers are involved in the development of adaptation plans to identify weak points and opportunities in the adaptation process
• Institutional guidelines will be developed on gender issues and land law and political dialogue on women's rights will be promoted through events
• Radio programmes ARE conducted on the topics of land rights, gender, climate change adaptation and conflict management
• HAKI ARDHI will draft new institutional guidelines and train local employees on project planning