Our ‘women in business’ project tackled a huge challenge head-on: lack of female land ownership in rural areas of The Gambia. A major focus of the project was to provide women with financial backing to purchase land, empowering them to transform subsistence farming into a sustainable business.
In rural areas of The Gambia, land ownership is almost exclusively reserved for men. Because women have neither the financial capacity nor opportunity to purchase land, it is extremely difficult for them to build viable and successful businesses. This in turn has a knock-on impact on food security, health and education, further perpetuating the cycle of poverty.
