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Tutwiler: Rural women’s potential “squandered”

27 February 2012, New York – “Rural women are active economic agents who could unleash major advancements in hunger eradication and development if they were able to participate equally with men in the agricultural economy,” said FAO Deputy Director-General Ann Tutwiler,...

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