Read more » Agricultural and rural non-farm employment play a critical role in rural development, food security, poverty reduction and rural women's economic empowerment. Rural women and men ...
This is because of poor rural infrastructure and services as well as culturally assigned roles that severely limit women's participation in employment opportunities (see also Goals 3 and 7).
Verdon directly addresses this gap in the historiography, placing the rural female labourer centre stage for the first time. The involvement of women in the rural labour market as farm servants, as ...
and the Young Farmers Federation of Uganda (UNYFA) have come up with a strategy of organising the rural women in different districts of Uganda to engage in organised farming. Women in rural Uganda ...
but rural farmer Opal Jackson is appealing to buyers to stop “bawling down” the prices set by her colleagues, especially women farmers. Jackson, who has been farming for more than 30 years ...