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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | About Half The World's Farmers Are Women, But Many Don't Have Land, Modern Tools. Here's Who's Helping -Eleanor Goldberg

About Half The World's Farmers Are Women, But Many Don't Have Land, Modern Tools. Here's Who's Helping -Eleanor Goldberg

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published Published on Mar 13, 2015   modified Modified on Mar 13, 2015
-Huffington Post

Across the globe, 805 million people are struggling with hunger. But that figure could be significantly reduced if female farmers just had the same rights as their male counterparts.

Now that more men in rural areas are taking jobs in cities, about half of all farmers are women who produce more than half the world's food, according to World Watch. Yet, despite their increasing roles, women farmers are often deprived of such basic rights as land which keeps them from producing to their full potential.

The situation is so uneven, in fact, that if male and female farmers had equal access to resources, food output would increase to a point that it could pull 100 to 150 million people out of hunger, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N. (FAO) concluded in a report released in 2011.

But it's not just land ownership that women farmers are getting excluded from.

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Huffington Post, 11 March, 2015, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/11/women-farmers-land-rights_n_6833224.html?ir=India


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