| inbluevt | Date: Friday, 2013/06/21, 8:23 PM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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ROME, Jun 17 2013 (IPS) - Closing the gender gap between women and men on agriculture and food security
could free over one hundred million people from hunger. Women represent 43 percent of the global agricultural workforce yet they have access to disproportionately less land and productive
resources, according to FAO’s report The State of Food and Agriculture 2010-2011.
Not only are they discriminated against in terms of access to credit and land, but they also are burdened with more house and family care chores and are more likely to be in precarious and low-paid employment.
During this week’s biannual conference in Rome, FAO announced the mainstreaming of gender across all its policies and put its gender policy for discussion in front of the national delegations.
Observers of FAO’s work on gender argue that the organisation has made very good progress over the past years, and that the basic necessary documents and normative frameworks needed for closing the
gender gap are now in place.But care must now be paid to implementation.
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