When You Picture a Farmer, Are They a Woman?

Jan 16, 2020 | Donna Hutchinson
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CABI has today published a briefing, Empowering female farmers – Gender responsive programming, which is an overview of gender inequality in agriculture, its challenges and impacts, and how CABI is working to address these through its projects and implementation now and in the future.

Women are vital to rural economies but they have less access than men to credit, education, land ownership, high quality inputs, and rural advisory services. So even though women produce over half of all the food that is grown worldwide, due to gender-specific social norms they use fewer productive inputs resulting in yields that continue to be 20-30 percent lower than that of men.