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Empowering Africa’s women farmers
Project Syndicate | 2019
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Citation
Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela. 2019. Empowering Africa’s women farmers. Project Syndicate. Published online on October 2, 2019. https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/women-farmers-africa-gender-equality-agriculture-by-ruth-meinzen-dick-2019-10
When Africa’s women farmers thrive, everyone benefits: the women themselves, the children in whom they invest, the communities that they feed, and the economies to which they contribute. With the right investments and policies, Africa’s woman-run farms could produce a bumper crop of development.