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Women's land rights = food security
- Category: Women in Action 1997-1
- Author: Samjhana Shrestha-Pandey
- Year: 1997
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In matrilineal Solomon Islands, land rights traditionally belonged to women who engage in food production. But the more profitable business of cash cropping is giving men more "perceived" value such that they now decide which crops to grow. The result: A once well-fed country is becoming more and more hungry.