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In Senegal, agriculture is a key source of wealth creation. It remains the main sector of occupation: on average 70% of the working population, and nearly 20% of the GDP1, and women increasingly constitute the significant part of this agricultural workforce and contribute to the creation of of wealth. However, the year 2008, marked by a global food crisis, led to strategies for the relocation of agriculture from developed countries to poor countries where the availability of arable land is not followed by the existence of laws protecting the masses peasant faced with "the rush of investors with big capital" In view of this situation, the state has undertaken land reforms and rural development policies focused on agriculture. The combination of these two factors has led to very tough competition around land acquisition. The rush of public, private, national and foreign investors to economically viable land has increased the vulnerability of women in accessing factors of production and results in a situation of precariousness for the latter not present in decision-making bodies and silenced by a patriarchal system misogynist. Solving these problems of inequalities in gender in land tenure is therefore a requirement for both development and social justice. It is this dual requirement that justifies the existence of initiatives aimed at strengthening women's access rights to land and supporting the securing of their land tenure.

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