Claim: 'Only 2% of Zim women own agricultural land: World Bank'
Fact-check: NewsDay, Not 2% of Zim women but 2% of the documented agricultural population are women   - FactCheckZW
Verdict: the claim that 'only 2% of zimbabwean women own agricultural land' attributed to the world bank in the newsday story has been rated as misleading. it is not what the world bank says. the world bank in its report claims, 'documented ownership of agricultural land is low in zimbabwe, just 2 percent of women'. zimstat, the primary source of the figure says, 'overall, 2.8 percent of the agricultural population have documented ownership of the agricultural land with women constituting 2 percent'. the claim is, therefore, rated as misleading since the figures from the survey indicate that, '2% of the 2.8% of the agricultural population with documented ownership are women' not that just 2% of zimbabwean women own agricultural land. the population being referred to is the agricultural population with documented ownership not the whole of zimbabwean women.
Organisation: FactCheckZW
Author: Lifaqane Nare
Date published: 2024-05-23T12:18:32