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Women make up about 43 per cent of the agricultural labour force in developing countries.

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Women often play a greater role in ensuring nutrition, food safety and quality, and are also often responsible for processing and preparing food for their households--tending to spend a considerable portion of their cash income on household food requirements.

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Migration is one of the drivers of the so-called feminization of agriculture in Latin America, which in turn impacts regional food security, national shared prosperity, and household resilience to shocks. In Guatemala, women got more decision-making power in agriculture after men left, demonstrating how agriculture can be empowering for women.

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Commercial agriculture brings opportunity. 

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Commercial agriculture brings opportunity. 

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Through participation in non-traditional export crop production as contract farmers or wage employees, women can have paid employment outside of their family farm. However, women may become concentrated in labor-intensive, low-skilled jobs as men take on managerial positions.

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture has established a Women in Agriculture mentoring network to help women in the United States connect with other women leaders in agriculture all across the country.

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One in eight worldwide did not consume enough food on a regular basis to cover their minimum dietary energy requirements over the period 2010 to 2012 according to UN reports. Moreover, compared to men, women and girls are still more severely affected by poverty, hunger and disease. Needless to say, poverty is limiting. In 2012, UN Women joined with the World Food Program, Food and Agriculture Organization, the International Fund for Agriculture Development to launch a joint program to empower poor rural women through economic integration and food security initiatives.

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"The small farmers that now, you know, they're under 1,000 acres they've got to go find an additional job to help support their farming habit. It's a tough thing to give up. People don't want to give it up, the farming."

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Using the ancient, wind-assisted process of winnowing, a woman separates chaff from grain in Mongar, Bhutan.

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Women constitute the majority of the agricultural labor force in small-scale and subsistence farming. On average, rural women and girls spend almost an hour each day gathering fuel and carrying water needed to prepare meals. In some communities, these activities may take up to 4 hours a day. A study in Africa found that, over the course of a year, women carried more than 80 tonnes of fuel, water and farm produce for a distance of 1 km. Men carried only 1/8 as much, an average of 10 tonnes for 1 km each year.

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Women have been contributing to American agriculture for centuries. 

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Women have been contributing to American agriculture for centuries. 

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60 percent of the farmer respondents were women when the National Young Farmers Coalition (NYFC) surveyed more than 3,500 farmers under 40 in 2017.

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According to the Food and Agriculture Organization
of the United Nations, the 20-30 percent difference in crop yield between male and female farmers is largely due to differential access to resources and inputs. Women compensate for this difference by working at least 15 hours per week longer than men (especially in developing countries where women typically work 2-3 times longer than men). In addition to working the fields, women also take up the role of homemaker, spending the majority of their income and time managing the household.

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