AAS 17 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Commercial Bank, Swynnerton Plan, Usufruct
30 May 2018
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JEAN DAVISON
1. 5% of the land in Kenya is owned by women. 80% of the food in Kenya is produced by women.
2. In many agricultural tasks, some gender overlap occurs that tends to be crop-specific. Both men
and women work on the production of tea and coffee.
3. Traditionally, women gained access to land as wives. The women had complete control over the
land they cultivated.
4. The Serto Pla uderied oes relatie eooi stailit i rural areas for three
reasons: (1) it gave precedence to individual ownership invested in male heads of households
and in turn marginalized the usufruct rights of women formerly guaranteed under lineage
tenure; (2) because land as collateral was required for credit and few women held land in their
own names, the Plan created disadatages i oes ailities to seure redit for agriultural
improvements; (3) the Plan fostered the capitalization of agriculture by encouraging export crop
production by Africans for the first time – a development that further marginalized the labour of
women in food production.
5. None of the Gikuyu women owned the land they worked on.
6. The economic situation of unmarried women is precarious in contemporary Kenya because she
ust either leaer her fathers hoe to eoe a age earer i a ura center or she
reais at hoe ad otriutes her laour to her others produtio uit.
7. The economic situation of separated women is equally insecure and difficult as never married
women. A separated woman usually must return to her natal home where she becomes
dependent upon her father for land to support herself and her children.
CHARLES FONCHINGONG
1. Women constitute 96% of the Cameroonian population engaged in food production. 94.6% of
the informal sector are women.
2. In urban areas of West Africa, women compromise 60-80% of the work force in trading.
3. Studies oduted sho the ritial iput of the girl/hild i support of oes iforal setor
activities. Women in this sector were said to bear a triple constraint of labour, requiring the
involvement of children until late in the night.
4. Njangi refers to savings and credit groups. Women make use of njangi as their main source of
start-up capital because they have little or no collateral.
5. 8% of women use banks as a source of capital. They are able to gain access to loans from banks
through the intervention of their husbands.
6. Women running households complained of lack of access to productive resources, especially
land.
MAIREAD DUNNE
1. In Ghana and Botswana, drop-out rate was proportionately higher for girls but it was of a
significantly greater magnitude in Ghana.
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Document Summary
Jean davison: 5% of the land in kenya is owned by women. 80% of the food in kenya is produced by women. In many agricultural tasks, some gender overlap occurs that tends to be crop-specific. Both men and women work on the production of tea and coffee: traditionally, women gained access to land as wives. A separated woman usually must return to her natal home where she becomes dependent upon her father for land to support herself and her children. Charles fonchingong: women constitute 96% of the cameroonian population engaged in food production. In urban areas of west africa, women compromise 60-80% of the work force in trading: studies (cid:272)o(cid:374)du(cid:272)ted sho(cid:449) the (cid:272)riti(cid:272)al i(cid:374)put of the girl/(cid:272)hild i(cid:374) support of (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)(cid:859)s i(cid:374)for(cid:373)al se(cid:272)tor activities. Women in this sector were said to bear a triple constraint of labour, requiring the involvement of children until late in the night: njangi refers to savings and credit groups.
