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By Agnes R. Quisumbing,Ruth Meinzen-Dick,Terri L. Raney,André Croppenstedt,Julia A. Behrman,Amber Peterman

The meals and Agriculture association of the United countries (FAO) produced a 2011 record on ladies in agriculture with a transparent and pressing message: agriculture underperforms simply because 1/2 all farmers—women—lack equivalent entry to the assets and possibilities they should be extra efficient. This ebook builds at the report’s conclusions via supplying, for a non-specialist viewers, a compendium of what we all know now approximately gender gaps in agriculture.

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