Land rights remain a complex and ambiguous subject for the majority of people in sub-Saharan Africa. In Ethiopia, formal state laws assert that women have equal rights regarding land use and access. However, Ethiopia's pastoral areas are often highly influenced by both religious and customary systems, under which women tend to have weaker land rights. A recent report by Abebaw Abebe Belay of Ethiopia's Ministry of Agriculture and Fiona Flintan of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) aims to understand women's land rights under formal and customary legal systems in Ethiopia's pastoral areas. The report also seeks to determine how these systems are applied and their impact on the ground. It concludes with recommendations for their convergence. The study is part of a larger effort across India, Tanzania and Ethiopia by ILRI to understand and improve pastoralist women's land rights, financially supported by the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions and Markets (PIM).