ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the agricultural part of women's work because it is the most directly connected with ujamaa. The policy of ujamaa has seemed to provide a vehicle through which women could both improve their agricultural productivity and control the fruits of their labor. Ujamaa is a Swahili word meaning "familyhood." Ujamaa as a policy has two components—the creation of nucleated settlements of people and the practice of communal agriculture. Ujamaa guarantees Women access to land in the form of the ujamaa farm. It also offers her access to capital, inputs, and information. The woman who pins her hopes to ujamaa, then, is not in a particularly strong position. Ujamaa does indeed give a woman access to land, but it may not give her access to very much land or to very good land. Women are usually excluded from village committees as well, or relegated to those that are considered "women's affairs."
