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The role of women in agriculture

January, 2011
Forest Tenure
Land & Investments
Land & Gender
women
agriculture
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If women hold up half the sky, how much of the world’s food do they produce?

Reports & Research
March, 2011
Global
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
Land, Climate Change & Environment
agriculture
land ownership
women
This paper explores, conceptually and empirically, the question of how much food is produced by women. Data for labour inputs and agricultural output are used to assess women’s contribution to food and agricultural production. The study also assesses gender differences in productivity. The paper finds that a precise measure of women’s contribution to food production is impossible to establish. In general women do not produce food separately from men and it is impossible to disaggregate men and women’s contributions either in terms of labor supplied or in terms of output produced.
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El acceso a la tierra: asunto clave para las mujeres campesinas en Antioquia, Colombia

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2011
Colombia
Land & Gender
land access
agriculture
women
land tenure
Se recogen los principales resultados de la investigación sobre la tenencia de la tierra y sus implicaciones en la vida de las mujeres de dos organizaciones campesinas ubicadas en el Departamento de Antioquia – Colombia, las cuales se desenvuelven en un contexto de agricultura campesina, donde se presenta una tendencia a la feminización de la pequeña agricultura, debido a que los hombres emigran a otras actividades económicas y/o se vinculan a grupos armados.
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Gender Mapper

Training Resources & Tools
January, 2012
farmers
women
agriculture
A "gender map" of agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa in order to better understand how to target agricultural interventions to women and men farmers.
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Global Women's Submission for the Rio+20 zero-draft document

Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2011
Global
women
land rights
agriculture
climate change
natural resources management
gender equity in access to land
desertification
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Asia Pacific Regional Preparatory Meeting For Rio+20: Women's Major Group Statement

Policy Papers & Briefs
January, 2011
Asia, Global
women
agriculture
climate change
gender equity in access to land
environment
[From AWID] We, the Women’s Major Group representatives* at the Asia Pacific Regional Preparatory Meeting for Rio+20 call on governments to reaffirm their commitments to Agenda 21 and the Beijing Platform for Action, and fulfill their obligations to the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
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WDR 2012: Gender Equality and Development

World Development Report

Reports & Research
January, 2011
Global
women
agriculture
property law
rural development
land policies
natural resources management
gender equity in access to land
The 2012 World Development Report on Gender Equality and Development finds that women's lives around the world have improved dramatically, but gaps remain in many areas. The authors use a conceptual framework to examine progress to date, and then recommend policy actions.

One of the key messages of the report is that:
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Women’s Empowerment to foster Food Security

Case studies from developing countries

Reports & Research
January, 2011
Global
women
land rights
agriculture
rural development
land policies
food security
In this booklet the Sustainable Economic Development Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs explains the bottlenecks women face in the production, preparation, processing and trading of food. The booklet also presents an overview of Dutch-funded organisations and projects focused on food security that are working to enhance the economic empowerment of women.

The publication starts by arguing that the first condition for sustainable food production is enhancing women’s land rights.
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The SOFA Report 2011: “Women in agriculture: Closing the gender gap for development”

Reports & Research
January, 2011
women
agriculture
gender equity in access to land
The SOFA Report 2011: “Women in agriculture: Closing the gender gap for development” (User:Wikigender, 15:02, 17 March 2011)
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Aid in Support of Women's Economic Empowerment

New OECD publication "Aid in Support of Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment"

Reports & Research
January, 2011
Global
agriculture
gender equity in access to land
women
Aid in Support of Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (pdf, 1.5MB) published in March 2011, presents statistics on aid from DAC members to sectors focused on gender equality and women’s empowerment for the period 2008-2009.

The Global Donor Platform OECD focal point, Karim Hussein, points out that page 5 of this new publication reviews agriculture and rural development and interestingly showed that only 5% of DAC donor aid for agricultural inputs had a gender equality focus.