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Rural Women in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Year of publication 2014

Pages 60 p.

Author Rocca, V.,; Bossányi, Z.; Di Giuseppe, S.;Tayyib, S.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Book (stand-alone)

ISBN 978-92-5-108412-0

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The present work takes guidance from the FAO flagship publication, “The State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) 2010-2011: Women in agriculture – Closing the gender gap for development” (FAO, 2011a). The SOFA report argues that, “despite the diversity in the roles and status of women in agriculture, the evidence and analysis…confirm that women face a surprisingly consistent gender gap in access to productive assets, inputs and services” and that closing this gender gap could result in significant g ains “in terms of agricultural yields, agricultural production, food security and broader aspects of economic and social welfare” (FAO, 2011a: 4). The report presents empirical evidence from many countries to support these two arguments, while noting that the potential gains that should occur by closing the gender gap on input use “would vary by region depending on how many women are currently engaged in agriculture, how much production or land they control, and how wide a gender gap they face” (ibid: 5).

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