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Almost as soon as its light Polly Apio is up and working, and she doesn鈥檛 stop until it鈥檚 time to go to bed again.听听Over 80% of people in Uganda depend on farming to survive. But while most farmers are women like Polly, land is owned and controlled by men. Women produce over 50% of all food grown worldwide.听 In sub-Saharan Africa, they grow around 90 per cent of the food, yet little global investment is being made to support women farmers.听 Women鈥檚 access to land ownership, financial services, education, health care and human rights is the key to assuring food security for all. Emboldened by the support of the charity, , Polly is helping women鈥檚 secure their rights. Cecile Wright went to Uganda to meet Polly, and to experience a typical day in her life. She began with a trip to the bore hole to get water.

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It is just over a year since employers were made to take on board changes to workplace pension schemes. A new law was introduced so that 听every employer must automatically enrol workers into such a scheme and pay a contribution towards it. So how has this affected people鈥檚 attitudes towards saving for their retirement? A survey by the National Association of Pensions Funds this week showed that over the past year women have become more confident about paying into pensions but many still say that they cannot afford to save into a scheme.听 Jenni is joined by Joanne Segars chief executive of the .

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Eight women are suing the Metropolitan Police and the Association of Chief Police Officers claiming they were tricked into long standing relationships with undercover officers. In 2010听 Mark Kennedy was unmasked as an undercover police officer who'd been infiltrating environmental protest groups and this has led to revelations that other officers had relationships with women they were spying on and they didn鈥檛 reveal their true identities. The women argue that the men听 they fell in love with used them physically and emotionally.听听 So is forming intimate relationships a legitimate part of a difficult and vital area of policing, or an abuse of power by the state? Jenni Murray speaks听 to two of the women and听听 to听 Chief Constable Mick Creedon who is leading Operation Herne, an investigation into undercover policing.