WOMEN AT WORK ALL OVER THE WORLD

Farm women work together in the field in Yemen:By forming groups women gain access to credit inputs and extension training

Farming couple in Syria:Although the problem of credit for small farmers affects both men and women, the plight of women is worse because men are the legally recognized landowners.

Woman weaves handicrafts to market in Syria: Non-wood forest products can mean extra income for women, but women often lack access to forestry information, training, education and research.

Women work in fish processing plant in Morocco: Income from the sale of processed fish often represents an important contribution to a family's income.

Women tackle land management in Niger:Women often do not own the land they cultivate, or are left with marginal lands to be used for subsistence crops

Women Work Crew Builds a Road in Lesotho, 1969

Women sell fruits and vegetables at a market in Guinea Conakry: Women are highly active as traders, hawkers, street vendors and marketers.

Women transport water in Guinea Conakry: Women play an important role in water usage they are most often the collectors, users and managers of water in households as well as farmers of irrigated and rain fed crops.

Women in Mozambique receive income from fish market cooperatives: When women succeed in obtaining credit, they are more reliable than men in their debt repayment.

Mother helps her daughters with their school homework in Burkina Faso: Each additional year in school raises a woman's earnings by about 15 percent, compared with 11 percent for a man.

Women in Madagascar attend a nutrition education class: Women in farming and fishing families receive only five percent of all agricultural extension services, although they often account for more than 50 percent of the labor.

Woman fishing in the lagoon of Alvarado Mexico: In most regions, large boats have male crews, while women manage small boats and canoes.

Woman harvests tomatoes from her home garden in Honduras: Women's home gardens are models of sustainable land use, dominated by perennial vegetation and fertilized with mulch, manure and crop residues.

Men and women receive training in Mexico: Policy-makers often fail to recognize that men and women have different responsibilities and thus have differing extension needs.

Women working with plow in the field: As women struggle to subsist with labor and capital scarcity, they often are forced to adjust cropping patterns that can decrease production or damage the environment.

Women farmers holding sheaves of wheat after the harvest in Myanmar (Burma): Once the harvest is in, a string of food processing and preparation activities await women in rural areas.

Women collecting fuel wood in Myanmar (Burma): Meeting minimal household needs for fuel wood may take up to the equivalent of 300 workdays a year.

Street food vendor in Bangkok: Street food activities play an important role in supplying suitable, low cost food to poorer segments of the population and represent an important contribution to food security.

Food quality control laboratory in Budapest: Women face barriers in their access to university and college education and related fields, such as food quality control.

Indonesia: Each year, the average rural woman transporting water, fuel or produce will carry more than 80 tons more than a 1km distance, while men carry about 10 tons for a 1 km distance.