Research reveals gender discrimination can affect crop yields
Research reveals gender discrimination can affect crop yields SHARES More needs to be done to achieve gender equality within farming says the research team A study examining bean productivity among smallholder farmers in Tanzania, has found that on average, yields are six percent lower among female farmers than their male counterparts. Women are often ‘invisible’ in agriculture, researchers say, due to social structural barriers and national agricultural policies, which do not address discriminatory land rights; education and agricultural information and decision making, which must be ta...
Source: newfoodmagazine.com