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News: The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has published a paper titled “The Status Of Women In Agrifood Systems” that emphasises the significance of gender equality in the agricultural sector.

Principal Points of the Report:

Around 40% of the world’s agricultural labour force is made up of women, who represent a sizeable component of the agricultural workforce. However, considerable gender-based hurdles frequently prevent women from accessing markets, technology, and resources, which has an influence on their productivity and income.

Even though women now have greater access to various resources over the past few years, such as financial services and digital technologies, the disparities still exist in far too many sectors, particularly for rural women.

Since the Covid-19 epidemic, the difference in food security between men and women has increased to 4.3%, with rural women experiencing much more food insecurity.

Women’s roles tend to be marginalised, and their working conditions are likely to be worse than men’s — irregular, informal, part-time, low-skilled, labor-intensive, and thus vulnerable. According to the Food and Agriculture Organisation:

The FAO is a specialised agency of the UN that directs global initiatives to end hunger.

Every year on October 16th, people all over the world commemorate World Food Day. The anniversary of the FAO’s inception in 1945 is commemorated on this day.

It is one of the UN food aid organisations based in Rome (Italy). Its sister bodies are the World Food Programme and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).