Publication: Gender in Agriculture Sourcebook
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Date
2009
ISSN
Published
2009
Author(s)
World Bank
Food and Agriculture Organization
International Fund for Agricultural Development
Abstract
Three out of every four poor people in
developing countries live in rural areas, and most of them
depend directly or indirectly on agriculture for their
livelihoods. In many parts of the world, women are the main
farmers or producers, but their roles remain largely
unrecognized. The 2008 World development report: agriculture
for development highlights the vital role of agriculture in
sustainable development and its importance in achieving the
millennium development goal of halving by 2015 the share of
people suffering from extreme poverty and hunger. Climate
change and rising food prices are reminders of the need to
focus on food security and agriculture for development; and
the material presented in the gender in agriculture
sourcebook suggests that accounting for the different roles
of women and men and gender equality in access to resources
and opportunities is a necessary condition for doing so.
This sourcebook is a particularly timely resource. It
combines descriptive accounts of national and international
experience in investing in agriculture with practical
operational guidance on to how to design agriculture for
development strategies that capitalize effectively on the
unique properties of agricultural growth and rural
development involving women and men as a high-impact source
of poverty reduction. It looks at gender equality and
women's empowerment, and the associated principles have
the potential to make a difference in the lives of hundreds
of millions of rural poor.
Citation
“World Bank; Food and Agriculture Organization; International Fund for Agricultural Development. 2009. Gender in Agriculture Sourcebook. Agriculture and Rural Development;. © Washington, DC : World Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6603 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”