By Victoria Yande
Mzimba Youth Organization has said some cultural beliefs that restrict land ownership among women and youths pose a key setback to effectively practice Climate Smart Agriculture and ensure food security in the district.
some participants during the meeting PIC Victoria Yande
The organization's Executive Director Moses Nkhana made the revelation after a two-day capacity building training sessions on strengthening land tenure rights for women and youths at Hora Heritage Centre in Mzimba.
Nkhana said some cultural beliefs guarantees that land belongs to traditional leaders and husbands only and this has affected Women and Youths participation in climate smart agriculture practices, a tool in the fight against adverse impact of climate change.
“In Mzimba, land ownership issues fall in patriarchal line, and it is mostly traditional leaders and husbands in a family that own land. We therefore feel that this has a negative towards successful implementation of climate smart agriculture which is a tool to fight impacts of climate change.
“We therefore thought to engage the people including chiefs, so they are acquainted with the new land tenure rights,” said Nkhana.
One of the participants, Eunice Waloyi from Embangweni hailed the organization for the enlightenment saying it has given them an opportunity to understand the value of land for women and youths in issues of climate change and development.
Village headman Sikumbili Jere thanked the Organization for the capacity building on land tenure rights saying has assisted him to understand more on the need to consider ownership issues for women and youth.
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