3. Why is sustainable agriculture so important for developing countries?
63 % of population live in rural areas
Agriculture and agro-processing account for % of GDP in developing countries, and an even larger share of employment
Women now make up more than 40% of the global labour force and 43% of the agricultural labour force.
Most women in the workforce in developing countries are engaged in agriculture and they produce between 60% and 80% of food crops in these countries.
The Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that if women farmers had the same access to resources as men, agricultural output in developing countries would increase by between 2,5 and 4,0 %.

4. World Hunger and Food Security
About 18 million people die each year from hunger, 10 million of them are chidren
850 million are undernourished – 1 in 8 people worlwide
2 billion suffer from micro nutrient deficiency
1.2 billion are overfed
1 in 5 children affected by food insecurity

9. Women Empowerment A root cause of poverty: the imbalance between...
What rural women do:
What rural women have:
Family care
Domestic work
Agricultural production
Income - generation
Management of household food security
Natural resources management
Marginal access to formal credit
Less education
Fewer rights

12. Purpose of the Black Sea Women Cooperation for Sustainable Development
Feed the Future Goal: Sustainably Reduce Poverty
High Level Objective:
Inclusive agriculture sector growth
-Agriculture Sector GDP
Per capita expenditures in rural households
Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index
Increased private investment in agriculture and nutrition activities
Increased employment opportunities in targeted value chains
Increased resilience of vulnerable communities and households
Improved agriculture productivity
Expanding markets and trade
Percent change in value of exports of targeted commodities
Value of incremental sales (farm-level)
-Value of new private investment in ag sector or value chain of local firms/Cooperative operating sustainably
-Jobs created by investment in agricultural value chains
The Index is rooted in the FTF Results Framework
Develop a measure of the inclusion of women in agriculture for Feed the Future M&E
Inclusion is broad and multi-dimensional
FTF defines it as: “the empowerment of women in their roles and engagement throughout the various areas of the agriculture sector, as it grows, in both quantity and quality”
The question came up as to Why women’s empowerment in agriculture?
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14. "By striving to do the impossible, we can always achieves the possible
"By striving to do the impossible, we can always achieves the possible. Muse is a source of inspiration for making the impossible possible."