Publication: Upcoming FAO Report: SOFA 2010/11 “Women in agriculture: closing the gender gap for development”.

The State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) report 2010–11, launched on March 7th 2011, provides comprehensive data and analysis documenting and assessing the costs of the gender gap in access to land, livestock, education, financial services, extension, fertilizers, tools and employment opportunities. It presents sex-disaggregated statistics on a range of socio-economic indicators and compelling empirical estimates of the production and food security gains of closing the gender gap in agricultural input use, and evaluates policies and interventions that have proven successful in promoting gender equality and empowering women in agriculture and rural employment.   The report will be available from 7^th March online at www.fao.org/publications/sofa.en.  For more information contact gender@fao.org