Food security in times of crisis: rural women speak outAnalucy Bengochea, Gódavari Dange, Florence Shakafuswa and Nereide Segala Coelho
Hundreds of rural women in Africa, Asia and Latin America took part recently in grassroots consultations on food insecurity and its impacts. A selection of viewpoints...
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Food security risks of liquid biofuel productionAndrea Rossi and Yianna Lambrou
The complex interrelationship between bioenergy and food security, and the challenges posed by the growing demand for food and fuel in an increasingly carbon-constrained world
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What are "women's crops", and why?Sabine Guendel
Farming women may grow lower-value subsistence crops not because they prefer to, but because they cannot access the resources that would permit them to do otherwise
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Rural employment, gender and povertyMarzia Fontana, with Cristina Paciello
Poverty often pushes women into off-farm employment, which can make a critical difference in the poverty status of their households. How much a woman benefits depends on how her new income is distributed
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Gender impacts of globalizing agricultureZoraida García
For small scale farmers, the benefits of agricultural commercialization can carry "significant economic and social costs"
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