Generating food security in the year 2020: Women as producers, gatekeepers and shock absorbers

Meeting world food needs in the year 2020 will depend even more than it does now on the capabilities and resources of women. Women are responsible for generating food security for their families in many developing countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Women not only process, purchase and prepare food, but they also play a significant role in national agricultural production, producing both food and cash crops. Population growth, urbanisation and the limited potential for increasing production through the expansion of cultivated area imply that, for food needs to be met in the..