Gender-equitable pathways to achieving sustainable agricultural intensification

CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE).

No 311127, IWMI Water Policy Briefings from International Water Management Institute

Abstract: Women play an increasingly greater role in agriculture. Ensuring that they have opportunities—equal to those of men—to participate in transforming agriculture is a prerequisite for sustainable intensification. Increased gender equity in agriculture is both a practical and a social justice issue: practical because women are responsible for much of the production by smallholders; and social justice because in many cases they currently do not have rights over land and water resources, nor full access to markets, and often they do not even control the crops they produce. Strategies to promote gender equity must be tailored carefully to the social and economic context.

Keywords: Consumer/Household Economics; Crop Production/Industries; Industrial Organization; Marketing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 12p.
Date: 2018-04-25
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.311127

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