ABSTRACT
This chapetr addresses in brief form one problematic aspect of the human rights agenda: women's rights in the context of socio-economic development. It focuses on Africa because information is more readily available about that region, but that focus should offer a paradigm for understanding the violation of women's socio-economic rights elsewhere and should in no way imply that such violations are exclusively African. The significance of access to ownership of cattle may vary from one setting to another, for not all arable agriculture is equally suited for, or as strongly dependent upon, raising livestock. Exclusion from property rights deprives women of access to credit and membership in cooperatives. Several priorities established within most agricultural delivery systems also coalesce to exclude a female clientele. Women's exclusion from technically oriented training programs occurs across regions and independent of international funding.
