Ivory Coast: women tap into financial freedom through rubber tree farms

In Ivory Coast, only five percent of women own agricultural land. But this is changing: for many women, owning their own farms of rubber trees has become a way to achieve financial freedom.

Ivorian farmer Affoua Mea decided one day she’d had enough. Despite years cultivating rubber trees on the plantation inherited from her father, her brothers still held the purse strings.

Last year, the 64-year-old bought her own piece of land thanks…