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While women constitute 43% of the agricultural workforce, they produce 20%-30% smaller crop yields than men due to their lack of access to and control over resources, including land, labour, credit, agricultural information, inputs and market opportunities.<\/p>\n
Young people likewise struggle with low levels of access to farming finance, information and land, which limit their opportunities in rural areas.<\/p>\n
Breaking down the barriers to women and young people’s employment in agriculture can benefit agriculture, food security, and communities. For example, if male-female differences in access and yields could be overcome, the number of undernourished and hungry people worldwide would fall by 100-150 million.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t SDG 5: Gender Equality\u00a0<\/a>seeks to empower all women and girls. Women and young people have the potential to play an important role in the future of agriculture.<\/p>\n\t We use our understanding of how gender, social relations and underlying power dynamics affect the participation of women, youth and marginalized groups in development work, and the value they derive from such work. This helps us to design and deliver targeted programming to redress inequalities in wealth and nutrition, and to create opportunities for women and youth in agricultural value chains.<\/p>\n To help women farmers in Ghana grow more and better soybeans, the Gender and the Legume Alliance (GALA), a collaboration between CABI and partners, developed music videos on best practices for growing soybeans. The videos incorporated traditional folk rhythms and were screened in 200 villages in northern Ghana, reaching around 41,000 members of farming households, with more women attending than men.<\/strong> After the campaign, there was an increase in the adoption of crop rotation and chemical weeding of 4-16%<\/strong>. The campaign also helped build links between agro-dealers and farmers, including women farmers, which led to a specific legume fertilizer being developed.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t In Pakistan, over 60% of the population live in rural areas. Poverty in these communities is high at nearly 55%. And while growing vegetables can provide a source of income, careers in horticulture are challenging. Lack of knowledge and skills in vegetable farming hinders income generation, particularly for women. Through the Tomato Flagship Initiative, part of the Strengthening Vegetable Value Chains<\/a> project, CABI and partners supported the project, which aimed to help smallholders access more profitable tomato value chains.<\/strong> The project trained women how to grow tomato seedlings<\/strong> in nurseries and increase their incomes.<\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t Women in the farming workforce often lack decision-making power and engage in manual labour on family-run farms. However, home-based agricultural “cottage” industries are helping to improve their income.<\/strong> In Tamil Nadu, India, women have formed biopesticide production groups that have become commercially successful with the support of the PlantwisePlus <\/a>programme. The connection between plant clinics and the groups has been instrumental in the women’s empowerment<\/strong>, with plant doctors recommending eco-friendly alternatives to farmers, causing the farmers to seek out products from the women’s groups.<\/strong><\/p>\n Creating a world in which women, youth and marginalised communities are included and treated equally in agricultural production, thus reducing youth unemployment and poverty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":157252,"parent":81,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[2402],"section":[],"pathway":[],"class_list":["post-3030488","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-area-of-focus"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"E_SDG-goals_icons-individual-rgb-05\"](\"https:\/\/www.cabi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/SDG-icons\/E_SDG-goals_icons-individual-rgb-05.png\" "\\"E_SDG-goals_icons-individual-rgb-05\\""){kind=icon}
\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\tCABI makes gender and social inclusion a central feature of all its development projects.<\/h2>\n\t
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