Empowering Women

This note addresses practices for reducing gender inequalities and for empowering women to make a positive contribution to development through agricultural investments. Women make a crucial contribution to the agriculture sector and account for ove...

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Main Authors:	UNCTAD, World Bank
Format:	Brief
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2018
Subjects:	WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS EMPOWERMENT RESPONSIBLE AGRICULTURAL INVESTMENT LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION GENDER INEQUALITY ACCESS TO FINANCE ACCESS TO LAND OUTGROWERS ACCESS TO MARKETS
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/283681521091071945/Empowering-women http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29474

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spelling	okr-10986-294742021-05-25T10:54:34Z Empowering Women UNCTAD World Bank WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS EMPOWERMENT RESPONSIBLE AGRICULTURAL INVESTMENT LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION GENDER INEQUALITY ACCESS TO FINANCE ACCESS TO LAND OUTGROWERS ACCESS TO MARKETS This note addresses practices for reducing gender inequalities and for empowering women to make a positive contribution to development through agricultural investments. Women make a crucial contribution to the agriculture sector and account for over 40 percent of agricultural labor in developing countries. However, they are frequently marginalized and their contributions under-acknowledged. Agricultural investments may perpetuate or accentuate gender inequalities if proactive gender policies are not adopted. There are significant economic and social gains to be had from closing the gender gap in agriculture. This note provides investors and governments with guidance on how to do so. 2018-03-19T14:21:55Z 2018-03-19T14:21:55Z 2018-03 Brief http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/283681521091071945/Empowering-women http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29474 English Responsible Agricultural Investment (RAI) Knowledge Into Action Note,no. 20; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Brief
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topic	WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS EMPOWERMENT RESPONSIBLE AGRICULTURAL INVESTMENT LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION GENDER INEQUALITY ACCESS TO FINANCE ACCESS TO LAND OUTGROWERS ACCESS TO MARKETS
spellingShingle	WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS EMPOWERMENT RESPONSIBLE AGRICULTURAL INVESTMENT LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION GENDER INEQUALITY ACCESS TO FINANCE ACCESS TO LAND OUTGROWERS ACCESS TO MARKETS UNCTAD World Bank Empowering Women
relation	Responsible Agricultural Investment (RAI) Knowledge Into Action Note,no. 20;
description	This note addresses practices for reducing gender inequalities and for empowering women to make a positive contribution to development through agricultural investments. Women make a crucial contribution to the agriculture sector and account for over 40 percent of agricultural labor in developing countries. However, they are frequently marginalized and their contributions under-acknowledged. Agricultural investments may perpetuate or accentuate gender inequalities if proactive gender policies are not adopted. There are significant economic and social gains to be had from closing the gender gap in agriculture. This note provides investors and governments with guidance on how to do so.
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title	Empowering Women
title_short	Empowering Women
title_full	Empowering Women
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url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/283681521091071945/Empowering-women http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29474
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