Women in Agriculture - Development as Poverty Reduction

Gender development programmes are necessary to reduce poverty and preserve economic prosperity since women make up a large number of the workforce in the agricultural sector, which is heavily impacted by climate change. 

A Vietnamese farmer tends her newly planted Jatropha crop in Nha Trang.  Jatropha can grow in extremely arid conditions and produces a seed that creates a bio-diesel.  David Gough/IRIN, IRINNews.org

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