Gendering agriculture / Nirit Ben-Ari.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Ben-Ari, Nirit, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture Rural Development and Forestry.

Local Subjects:

Agriculture Rural Development and Forestry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (2 pages)

Contained In:

Africa Renewal Vol. 27, no. 4, p. 24-25 27:4<24 2517-9829

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : United Nations, 2014.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Do land, seeds and crops have a gender? Perhaps they do in sub-Saharan Africa, where women produce up to 80% of foodstuffs for household consumption and sale in local markets, according to a report by the World Bank and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). For crops such as rice, wheat and maize, which make up about 90% of food consumed by rural dwellers, it is women who mostly sow the seeds, do the weeding, cultivate and harvest the crops and sell surpluses.

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