News Headline
Putting women at the heart of national biodiversity action plans
Source
UN Environment
Publication Date
2018-03-14
In developing countries, women make up nearly half of the labour force in agriculture and account for a large portion of the world’s food crops. They work as farmers, informal sector workers, entrepreneurs, in forestry and fisheries and are involved in all sectors of agriculture. Yet their role as users, custodians and managers of food and biodiversity resources is often overlooked and not immediately apparent, limiting their access to credit, land, investment, decision-making processes and preventing them from benefiting from biological resources such as genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge.