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Women, key partners in promoting biodiversity and environmental farming practices
The GEF recognizes gender equality as an important goal and a priority for the organization.
If female farmers had the same access to resources as men, 150 million fewer people would go hungry, according to the World Food Program.
2014 marks the International Year of Family Farming. Across the world, 500 million smallholder or family farms produce 70% of the world’s food and provide 1.5 billion of the world’s poorest people a means of survival. Of these, 43% of agricultural laborers in the developing world are rural women.