This Source-book is a particularly timely resource. It combines descriptive accounts of national and international experience in investing in agriculture with practical operational guidance on to how to design agriculture-for development strategies that capitalize effectively on the unique properties of agricultural growth and rural development involving women and men as a high-impact source of poverty reduction. It discusses gender equality and women’s empowerment.
FAO, JLIFAD and The World Bank. Gender in Agriculture, 2009. Washington, DC 20433, America.