The Land Question and Agricultural Production among Women in Ozalla Community Edo State Nigeria

The paper looks at the plight of Nigerian Women in terms of their developmental and economic opportunities which are often circumscribed by gender discrimination. They suffer the disadvantages of household division of labour, barrier to ownership of communal land and discriminatory inheritance practices which are deep rooted in the customary practices of the people. The community is a patrilineal one where a woman’s right to land is pegged on her marital status. A combination of methods was used to analyse this as a way of trying to proffer solutions to the issues highlighted.