"Although women play a critical role in agricultural growth in developing countries, men and women smallholder farmers – even within the same household – often have different needs and priorities and experience different constraints in their access to agricultural resources and decision-making power. In sub-Saharan Africa, women farmers are vulnerable to inequalities in access to land and other critical resources, education and training, and power over agricultural decision-making that impact their agricultural productivity. At the same time, USAID estimates that “by empowering women farmers with the same access to land, new technologies, and capital as men, we can increase crop yields by as much as 30 percent helping to feed a growing population." This is increasingly important as the global population is estimated to reach 9.7 billion by 2050."
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Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH) is a CG program lead by IFPRI.
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