Women’s access to land and food systems remains shaped by structural inequality, patriarchal inheritance systems, and exclusion from economic decision-making. Many women, especially widows and rural women, face dispossession, limited land ownership, and weak legal protection.
This exclusion directly affects food sovereignty and household resilience. Women produce and sustain food systems but often lack control over land, resources, and markets. Climate stress further deepens these vulnerabilities, making food insecurity both an economic and justice issue.
WIJC advances women’s land and food justice through a coordinated feminist systems approach that strengthens awareness, advocacy, and cross-county collaboration.
The committee supports community education on land rights and succession processes while promoting food sovereignty through climate-smart agriculture, digital farming, and value addition. WIJC strengthens linkages between WHRDs, Justice Centers, paralegals, and partners to ensure women can access coordinated legal and advocacy support systems.
- WIJC worked with the Article 43 Committee under the food sovereignty campaign; they played the role of documenting women’s lived experiences in food systems. This shifted food insecurity narratives from household-level struggles to structural justice issues influencing advocacy and policy conversations.
- WIJC supported seedling distribution and the establishment of kitchen gardens, enabling women and WHRDs to produce food locally. In several communities, these gardens now serve as sustainable nutrition sources and economic relief systems.
- Through training programs, WHRDs gained skills in climate-smart agriculture, digital farming, and value addition and are now mentoring other women, expanding impact across counties.
- Women-led cooperative gardens have emerged, strengthening collective ownership of food systems and improving economic resilience.
