Women's access to land has been at the heart of the news for three decades. In southern Mauritania, men's control over land is a reality. Women represent only 4.2% of holders of Land Titles. Equality between men and women in terms of access to land ownership is thus far from being achieved and gender a distant objective in land. The obstacles hindering women's access to land ownership are socio-cultural, legal, institutional and financial. Even if the national legislation and the texts of Islamic jurisprudence do not oppose any obstacle to the access of women to land, social prejudices persist depriving a large part of the weaker sex of access to land. However, the state has established texts allowing people living in rural areas and wanting to work the land to make an official request in order to obtain a temporary or definitive occupation permit.