If women in rural areas had the same access to land, technology, financial services, education and markets as men, agricultural production could be increased and the number of hungry people reduced by 100-150 million,” the FAO said in the 2010-11 edition of The State of Food and Agriculture report.
Just giving women the same access as men to agricultural resources could increase production on women’s farms in developing countries by 20-30 per cent, the study said.
It observed that yields on plots managed by women were lower than those managed by men. But this was not because women were worse farmers than men. They simply did not have the same access to inputs, the report said.
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