Building Women's Resilience and Livelihoods

Feb 3, 2020
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At IFAD we know that the face of a farmer is often a woman’s face. Around the world today, women make up over half the people working in agriculture – as smallholders, market gardeners, wage labourers, unpaid workers on family farms – and that figure is on the rise. Nearly ten years ago in 2011, women were estimated to make up about 43 per cent of agricultural workers. Today the most recent figures from FAO put women at 50 per cent or more of the global agricultural workforce.