Women in Agriculture

Empowering Women Farmers Is Key To Ensuring Global Food Security

Roger Thurow | Posted 05.18.2012

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Roger Thurow

bringing the benefits of agricultural development to the farmers at the end of the road, is the challenge within the challenge.

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This is What Real Women Working Look Like

Nancy Hiller | Posted 04.22.2012

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Nancy Hiller

Photos like these present the idea of work as a kind of fashion accessory for these women, an occasion for dressing up. Sexy babes meet The Village People.

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Female Farmers: The New Food Industry Frontier

AOL Jobs | Posted 11.12.2011

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Men are the seed-sowers and women are the soil -- or so goes the basic premise behind the McElvaine Thesis, which argues that the shift from egalitari...

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Women Farmers in the Developing World

Dan Silverstein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dan Silverstein

In Sub-Saharan Africa, 80% of agricultural workers are women. According to the World Bank,They raise 90% of the food, but receive only 10% of credit extended for agricultural loans.

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