Working in the field. Ghana. Photo Credit: Curt Carnemark / World Bank
EnGendering Data, a blog on improving data on the role of gender in agriculture, has a new post on female labor in African agriculture. Cheryl Doss shares new studies that "offer our most detailed understanding to date of rural economies in Africa" and challenge the widely cited "fact" that women in Africa provide 60-80% of the labor in agriculture. She then encourages a shift of focus to the question of how to effectively invest in women's agricultural productivity, drawing on empirical evidence to chart a course.
Read the full post on the blog, here.
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