Access to agricultural resources and services
Land. There is a great disparity between women and men in the size of landholdings, as well as an overall trend of increasing landlessness and decreasing size of holdings due to population pressure. About 84% of the land is cultivated by human labour, which limits the amount that can be cultivated.
Livestock. Data collection needed.
Forestry. Data collection needed.
Water. Data collection needed.
Credit. In 1992, women comprised only 15% of the total membership of formal rural savings and credit associations. Women's access to formal financing is limited by the small size of their agricultural enterprises, high rate of illiteracy, predominance in the subsistence sector, and lack of land as collateral. Women's access to loans has tended to be confined to donor-supported special grants.
Size of Planted Areas by Female and Male-headed Households
Source: Agricultural Sample Survey of Tanzania Mainland, 1989/90, Bureau of Statistics.
Extension services and agricultural training. Data collection is needed on the numbers of women farmers reached by extension.
Agricultural Extension Staff by Position and Gender, 1989
Source: Agricultural Extension and Farm Women in the 1980s, FAO, 1993
