Women bear a disproportionate burden in the agrarian system of Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and Latin America. In addition their productivity is low. Explain these statements with specific examples from individual developing economies
What measures/policies have been implemented to deal with these two issues? Once again discuss with specific examples from individual developing economies.
Discussed in the section on the role of women in agriculture. Specific policies aimed
at raising female agricultural productivity include facilitating access to credit, training programs, providing titles to land as a way of securing property rights (and thus the possibility of borrowing), cash subsidies in exchange for sending children (especially girls) to school etc.
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