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Women, food security and agriculture in a global marketplace: a significant shift [1]

Recognizing women’s involvement in commercial crop production and ensuring that they benefit from research, extension, credit, land tenure rights, market access and other elements of production, innovation and participation still requires a significant organizational shift in many agricultural services. This paper reviews current thinking and practice on increasing agricultural productivity, both subsistence and commercial agriculture, and examines what is known about women’s roles in both sectors.

Publication Date: 
01/04/2010
Rekha Mehra [2], Mary Hill Rojas [3]
International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) [4]
Tags:
Agriculture [5], Development [6], Women [7], Economic Development [8], India [9], Global [10], South Asia [11], Food Security [12], Poverty [13]
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National Knowledge Commission Government of India

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