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What the Gender and Land Rights Database has to Offer

Year of publication 2014

Pages 2p.

Author FAO, Rome (Italy). Social Protection Div.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Brochure, flyer, fact-sheet

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The eradication of hunger and poverty largely depend on how people, communities and others gain access to land. The livelihoods of many, particularly the rural poor including women, are based on secure and equitable access to and control over land and other natural resources. Land is a source of food and shelter; the basis for social, cultural and religious practices; and a central factor in economic growth. However, women who on average comprise 43 percent of the agricultural labour force in de veloping countries and are heavily involved in food and cash crops production have less access than men to productive resources

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