Empowerment of Women to End Hunger

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Empowerment of women to end hunger
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EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN TO END HUNGER
Introduction
According to recent reports produced by World Bank, women usually represent at a rate of
more than 40% in the field of labour force at global level and also more than 43% in the field
of workforce at global agricultural level. Many organizations all over the world like Food and
Agriculture Organization (FAO) of that of United Nations presume that productivity of
generation of women labour force will increase at a fast rate if they are rendered quality
training and they are given equal access to various productive units for example improved
seeds as well as fertilizers then it is estimated that yield from their fields would increase at a
rate of 20% to at least 30%. This would help in improving output due to agriculture by the
rate of 4% in various developing nations therefore it would help to reduce hunger of women
and children by the rate of 17% that means 150 more million people will get access to food.
This particular essay would discuss about empowerment of women through teaching them
modern technologies that would increase the yield from their farmlands.
Discussion
Women usually make up 50% of the entire workforce associated with agriculture in various
parts of Eastern Asia, in sub-Saharan parts of Africa and form 20% of the entire population of
farmers in parts of Latin America (Mayoux, 1995). It has been come to known that women
usually work more than from 12 to about 13 hours every week more than men. Rural girls
and old women carry out many such responsibilities for example they play the role of
farmers, micro entrepreneurs and they work as nominal wage labourers. However their hard
labour does not pay off to success as they are sometimes held back due to various dimensions
in inequality with men in terms of education, workloads, and rights towards property and they
also have limited control over various resources and most of the times decision-making
processes regarding agriculture and food production do not involve women farmers or

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artisans. Sometimes they have to bear the burden of additional work in the fields without
getting any form of payment. Therefore it is necessary to empower women so that
malnutrition, infant mortality rate, poverty as well as hunger can be minimized. Since the
modern environment is undergoing through several changes due to varying climatic
conditions, various patterns due to migration, globalization as well as processes of
commercialization therefore it is necessary on part of women to get themselves educated,
require money capital as well as support to be invested up on them so that they can always be
at par with their male counterparts in terms of production and they will also assist in various
financial services towards the rural areas that would help these places to attain stability
(Kabeer, 2010).
IFAD is basically an organization that works towards welfare of women as well as their
families, their communities as well as various countries and try to establish gender equality
everywhere around a particular place. They are mainly concerned towards making
contributions in order to improve measures associated with food as well as security, sharpen
the skills of rural women in ploughing the lands, irrigation process and other methods, and
motivate women so that they can raise their voices and influence other women and children.
They have the focus on making women share almost all social as well as economic benefits.
There are certain examples of this empowerment program like the organization face several
challenges to impart quality training facilities to women that have been dreams as well as
aspirations for women who suffer due to hunger and their annual income lies low the line of
poverty. Some groups of courageous women from youth section known as Yemeni women
have been successful in availing the opportunity to get themselves trained as various
professionals who can work at vet and they received ultimate support from various projects
funded by IFAD organization. When some young women faced oppositions from the side of
their families regarding joining the Veterinary Technical schools, they got the support from