Gender

Women and Agriculture: A Conversation on Improving Global Food Security: "Well, one way that we know would yield significant results is investing more in women. "This comes down to a simple matter of numbers. Women make up the majority of the agricultural workforce in many developing countries. They’re involved in every aspect of agricultural production, from planting seeds to weeding fields to harvesting crops. Yet women farmers are 30 percent less productive than male farmers, for one reason: they have access to fewer resources."