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Rice land for labour agreements benefiting women
The Lowlands Agricultural Development Programme (LADEP) was the first eight-year phase of a 20-year programme for sustainable community-driven reclamation and development of lowland areas to improve traditional rice production, using simple technologies and self-help labour.
From 1997 to 2004, LADEP helped bring about fundamental changes in the traditional land tenure system. In this traditional system, land tenure is held by founder settlers.
LADEP had a role as a catalyst in the devolution of individually owned land to the community, and in the redistribution and equitable sharing of new communal land among individuals, mainly women, participating in land reclamation works.
Rice land for labour agreements benefiting women : The Lowlands Agricultural Development Programme (LADEP), Gambia(PDF, 755.6 kb)