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Addressing women's work burden

Year of publication 2016

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 4p.

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Brochure, flyer, fact-sheet

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Synopsis (short abstract) This factsheet discusses women's triple work burden in the household, as producers and at community level and highlights their time poverty. It introduces labour saving technologies, practices and services as potential solutions and describes the adoption constraints women may face. A section is on tested technologies and the concluding page is on the way forward, as addressed by FAO, IFAD and UNDO.

Language English

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