Although 60-80% of smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are women, only 15-20% are landholders.
This means the other 75-80% are either leasing a portion of someone's land or paying someone else to grow certain crops for them, then paying them for the harvest.
Thokozile Maphisa, the founder of Ikusasalethu Agricultural Projects, is one of the young women who are changing the face of the agricultural industry in South Africa, having experienced her first taste of farming on her mother’s farm.
