3. Fewer Resources Less Output
• Average yield gap between men and
women farmers approx 20–30% due to
inequities in resource access and use.
• Bringing yields on the land farmed by
women up to the levels achieved by
men could increase agricultural output
in developing countries between 2.5
and 4%.
4. Less Output Less (good) Food
Closing the gender gap in agriculture
could bring down the number of
undernourished people in the world by
between 100-150 million people.
Source: FAO 2010
5. Women Making a Difference
1. Monica Munachonga
2. Violet Shivutse
3. Rudo Gaidzwana
6. Monica Munachonga
Governments for Gender Equity
Indigenize gender: participatory
consultative approach to promote
ownership of strategies and processes
Twin-track approach
Institutional change: policy/planning,
positions, systems, implementation,
M&E tools, reporting
Human resources: gender capacity dev.
for leadership, accountability, and will
7. Monica +
Research to support government
planning and programming: gender-
focused, sector-specific to produce sex-
disaggregated databases & sharing of
experience/ information
Investments in gender-sensitive farming
technologies:
• labour saving to reduce workload
• increase women’s participation in low-
input value chains
8. Violet Shivutse
Empowering Grassroots Women
Work with a grassroots woman to enable
her to articulate the issues affecting
her, enable her to be a change agent,
link her up with other women who
believe in the same to have a
collective voice.
9. Violet +
GROOTS Tools
• Map women’s vulnerabilities. Map
spaces of power.
• Link women together for collective
advocacy.
• Dialogue to hold leaders accountable.
• Transformative leadership training to
empower grassroots women to sit on
committees.
10. Rudo Gaidzwana:
Land plus Resources
Policy frameworks need to consider
impact of policy, criteria, delivery
processes re land-titling on married,
single, divorced, widowed women and
girls in comparison to men and boys.
Increase women’s productivity and
ability to accumulate assets for
collateral via mechanisation/credit.
11. Rudo +
• Clarify which law – customary or statutory
– is to be used in land allocation.
• Both women and men in a marriage should
be legal registrants
• Women seeking land in own right should be
legal registrants
• Women to establish national and local
unions to represent them in credit/input
negotiations, contracts, produce marketing
12. Men as Well
• Work with men to
help them to
support women
• Identify and address
male gender needs
in farming e.g junior
• Work towards
transforming
relationships/ GDL
13. Ways Forward
Write Shop (next 2 ½ days)
• Draw up PRACTICAL recommendations
for how to empower women in
agriculture
• Institutions. Productive Resources.
Markets. Climate Smart Agriculture.
Extension. Human Rights. HIV/AIDS.
Gender-based Violence.
For Voice, for Dignity, for Change
