This issue focuses on particularly innovative activities that enable women to have better access to land in several African countries. In Niger, thanks to the debates that began in their listeners’ club, the women of Banizoumbou now have secure access to a large plot of land for 99 years. This initiative has attracted other investors who will stimulate further activities. Hopefully, all forms of discrimination against women in land matters will have disappeared by the time the lease expires! In Mali, the Groupe de Recherche et de Réalisations pour le Développement rural (GRDR – Research and Action Group for Rural Development) has taken a great step forward as regards involving women in its surface water management programme by protecting their right to land access, demanding that they participate in decision-making, and giving them access to the training they need to perform an economic activity. In Madagascar, custom still takes precedence over land reform laws which give men and women equal access to land. An action research in the Central Highlands has shown that there is a need for widespread awareness-raising campaigns.