CLOSING THE GENDER GAP IN AGRICULTURE

The 2020 International Women’s Day commemorations brought into focus a concerning fact – that 25 years after the World Conference on Women, “No country  has reached the ‘last mile’ on gender equality,” as blatantly noted in the 2019 Global Index.

The 2020 Global Gender Gap report adds a more dismal fact - that it will take 99.5 years for the world to achieve the gender parity it wishes to see and that’s only if countries start making necessary changes now.

Inability to meet gender equality goals entails that progress in spheres where women are key such as improving food and nutrition security, is also being stalled because women are not being given sufficient access to the tools