Gender in Agriculture: Sourcebook

This sourcebook uses empirical evidence to inform policy formulation and program design. It provides decision makers and practitioners with practical guidance, not only on how to avoid the pitfalls of gender neutral planning, but on how to capitalize on the extraordinary productive and poverty reducing potential of the woman farmer. It portrays women in many rural societies as especially constrained by a lack of access to inputs, productive resources, and services. A chapter particularly focuses on gender and rural finance.