Role of Women in Agriculture by Zaray Dewan https://padlet.com/20217071/igr9t82u4yie9wb0 en-us 2021-02-18 18:09:03 UTC 2025-11-08 00:10:04 UTC hello@padlet.com Interesting Stats 20217071 https://padlet.com/20217071/igr9t82u4yie9wb0/wish/1220734169 In the developing world, women are often responsible for the knowledge of crop varieties. In parts of sub-Saharan Africa, women can cultivate up to 120 crops, while men are often responsible for cultivating cash crops. 
Women are responsible fro 60% to 80% of the food production in the developing world, if you consider rearing livestock and cultivation of crops.
Women dominate the labor force in exports of high-value agriculture in countries such as Chile, Ecuador, Guatemala, Kenya and South Africa.
Women usually not just farmers, they are often mothers, too. If women's wages were increased, this could improve their healthcare, nutrition, and education for their children, which could improve communities as a whole.]]> 2021-02-20 00:22:33 UTC https://padlet.com/20217071/igr9t82u4yie9wb0/wish/1220734169 Works Cited 20217071 https://padlet.com/20217071/igr9t82u4yie9wb0/wish/1220734601 “Women in Agriculture.” Weltagrarbericht, www.globalagriculture.org/report-topics/women-in-agriculture.html#:~:text=On average, women comprise 43,farms by 20–30%.

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Rotenberk, Lori. “Breaking the Grass Ceiling: On U.S. Farms, Women Are Taking the Reins.” Grist, 7 June 2013, grist.org/food/breaking-the-grass-ceiling-on-u-s-farms-women-are-taking-the-reins/.

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]]> 2021-02-20 00:22:53 UTC https://padlet.com/20217071/igr9t82u4yie9wb0/wish/1220734601 Difficulties Women are Facing 20217071 https://padlet.com/20217071/igr9t82u4yie9wb0/wish/1220734704 Less than 20% of land-holders are women thanks to certain legal practices that prevent them from obtaining land. For example in West Asia and North Africa, less than 5% of women own land, and 15% in Sub-Saharan Africa. 
In North Africa and West Asia, women represent fewer than 5% of all agricultural landowners; while across Sub-Saharan Africa, they make up 15%. In the developing world, women can expect to work 12/13 hours per week more than their male counterparts. They are often not compensated properly, either. In rural areas, women are expected to provide their communities with water and wood. Fetching these resources is labor and time intensive.

]]> 2021-02-20 00:22:58 UTC https://padlet.com/20217071/igr9t82u4yie9wb0/wish/1220734704 Role of Women in Food Distribution 20217071 https://padlet.com/20217071/igr9t82u4yie9wb0/wish/1220735668 Women make up 43% of the agricultural labour force in developing countries, and this varies region by region - with 20% in Latin America to 50% in Eastern Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. In the US, 30% of farmers of women. Despite the fact that women have prominent roles in supplying communities with food, they are often paid less in the developing world and are faced with microagressions in the developed world.
While their role is significant, they still lack access to resources that would help to increase their yields.
There are about 820 undernourished people - most who reside in the developing world where women are vital to the food distribution. If women were provided with the same education and resources as men, yields could increase and more people could be fed.]]> 2021-02-20 00:23:41 UTC https://padlet.com/20217071/igr9t82u4yie9wb0/wish/1220735668 Women in Subsistence Agriculture 20217071 https://padlet.com/20217071/igr9t82u4yie9wb0/wish/1220744976 In subsistence agriculture, women can be expected to be paid half of men's wages; this is the case in places like Africa and parts of Asia. Because the developing world lacks the infrastructure for large-scale agriculture, the burden of production falls mostly on women. Women work 12/13 more hours per week than men on the farm. In addition, they are also expected to be mothers and homemakers. Often uneducated, these women do not get to negotiate their wages and it is commonplace for them to paid half of what men earn.


]]> 2021-02-20 00:32:54 UTC https://padlet.com/20217071/igr9t82u4yie9wb0/wish/1220744976 Women in Agriculture in The Developed World 20217071 https://padlet.com/20217071/igr9t82u4yie9wb0/wish/1220745090 In developed countries women make up a smaller share of the labor force. In the US, 30 percent of farmers are women.

The inequities between men and women are less overt. Instead of being paid half the amount a man is, women face other obstacles. Even if a woman is in charge of her farm, male farmers may dismiss her authority and take her less seriously.  One female farmer recalls times when her male counterparts didn't want to talk to her about administrative tasks around the farm:
“I guess being a woman, you have to go above and beyond to prove yourself.”

Interestingly, many women have left their careers to become farmers because they are passionate about sustainable and "clean" agriculture. The image below shows a journalist talking to a farmer of a female-run farm.
]]> 2021-02-20 00:33:01 UTC https://padlet.com/20217071/igr9t82u4yie9wb0/wish/1220745090 Women in Commercial Agriculture 20217071 https://padlet.com/20217071/igr9t82u4yie9wb0/wish/1224303974 Smallholders often cannot compete with bigger farmers and may quit production altogether. Disadvantages are doubled when a smallholder is a woman, because there are certain attitudes that prevent women from having recognition/autonomy as a farmer. At large, women farmers mostly hold smaller farmers, while men tend to operate larger farms and can outpace the smallholders. When women are participating in commercial farming, their sales receipts are often overseen by men, once again illustrating gender inequities.

Below is a female smallholder. In increasingly commercialized societies, smallholders' livelihoods are at risk to bigger farms.
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