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Climate; Feminization of agriculture; Gender equality; Gender transformative; Rural development; Smart agriculture; Women’s empowerment
Introduction
Women are key actors in rural development as they make essential contributions to the agriculture sector and have a major role in food security and nutrition in developing countries. However, gender inequality persists worldwide, depriving women and girls of their basic rights and opportunities as well as means to profit from agriculture such as information, resources, access to services, land, finance, and technology that are more easily accessible to men. Moreover, rural women are more likely to be food insecure than men and more likely to suffer from nutritional deficiencies especially during adolescent growth, menstruations, pregnancy, and breastfeeding. Additionally, in many cultures they eat the least and last within the household even deprioritizing their own nutrition in times of food of scarcity. Hence, young mother’s not...
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Furst, M. (2018). Women and Rural Agricultural Development. In: Kaplan, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6167-4_616-1
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