Land rights deny women the chance to address climate change

Alice Amana prepares millet crops at Natirai farm in Loima, Turkana County, on July 19, 2022. [Peter Ochieng, Standard]

Cultural beliefs that deny women land rights are to blame for adverse climate change affecting them.

Speaking in Meru town during a sensitisation forum organised by the Participatory Ecological Land Use Management (Pelum Kenya) Association, the women drawn from the region lamented how they are denied the right to own land.