Women and Agrarian Change: Issues of Land Rights/Ownership

This paper starts on the premise of differentiation among the peasantry and despite the controversies surrounding the concept of differentiation and class (Bernstein ( 1979) , with regard to the African peasantry, I will posit that in Sub-Saharan Africa, even though a lot of literature suggests that land is not a central issue of debate due to its relative availability, there is still unequal ownership.