Arguing traditions... | World Bank

Two major approaches on how to address women‘s land security can be identified: reforming the formal legal sector and embracing informal community practices. However, through research conducted among Kenya‘s agricultural communities, the authors find that these systems—formal, informal, or hybrid—are underpinned (and undermined) by the same local power dynamics that control and ultimately prevent women from obtaining land, leaving all of these systems inadequate in ensuring women‘s access to land.