2023-09-05 11:26:11
A woman and a child in a field near Dakar. The empowerment of women in the countryside is considered crucial to face different challenges: demography, climate, rural exodus… www.alamy.com/Alamy Stock Photo via Reuters Connect
FIGARO DEMAIN – Customary laws reserve for men the privilege of inheriting cultivable plots. Only 15% of women have access to property.
In Dakar
Around the tracks that lead to the village of Mboulème, corn and millet grow on the clay soil. Men with horses plow the soil, which is finally damp. For Senegalese farmers, everything happens during the rainy months, between July and October. At the mercy of the rain, women and men worked tirelessly to ensure their harvest.
For a long time, Tening Sene followed the directions of her farmer husband. Head of household, her husband pocketed the earnings and decided everything: when to plant, how to work the land, when to harvest. A widespread situation in Senegal, where only 15% of women have access to land ownership, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). They work the land of their fathers or their husbands, but are deprived of it in the event of the death of one, or of divorce. An application of traditional laws difficult to stop, but that Tening Sene wanted to question. With the group of…
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