Closing the Gender Gap in Agriculture

In Mexico, around forty five percent of its one hundred and eighteen million people face food shortages or hunger. In south America, nearly ten million Peruvians suffer from hunger; that is nearly one-third of the population. In many countries around the world, it is the rural poor who suffer most. Hunger and disease, is usually in close combination and often precipitated by natural disasters or war, have plagued humankind throughout history. People need nutrition to be strong and to be able to go to school or work, but without any healthy food that cannot happen. Their bodies cannot process the activities or material they are shown due to lack of nutrients that you get from healthy sustenance. therefore, they are not able to get a good paying job or education for later in their future. World hunger is a problem that must be addressed as seen through illness,

While most reports highlights the severity of hunger in many developing nations, many suffering from hunger can happen in our backyard too. In the US, prolific families suffering from malnourishment and food insecurity makes up 12.7%

One of the many pressing Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) is zero hunger which aims to end hunger and all forms of malnutrition by 2030. Hunger has struck so many lives throughout the world, but the struggle with hunger has progressed considerably over the past fifteen years(UN Sustainable Development). Worldwide, hunger has dwindled increasingly from 15 percent in 2002-2004 to only 11 percent according to the 2014-2016 figures. There are certain places that

“Some kids don’t get enough to eat, no matter what people tell themselves,” says Anna Quindlen on the topic of child hunger. In the United States child hunger is not as major as it is in other countries but, that doesn’t mean that is doesn’t exist. The problem of child hunger is virtually ignored in first world countries like the U.S. because of how increasingly worse it is in many third world countries such as Africa. Anna notices this problem and wishes to educate others on the topic and inform the reader on the problem.

Women in Sub-Saharan African should work more in that there is an increase in the number of women participating in agriculture, as most men have resorted to work in non- agricultural activities. This entails that women should venture into men’s cash crop farming too so that they earn more income in order tothat can change their economic situation.

Many children in this world suffer everyday in very different ways. Suffering ways could be the loss of shelter or having a very chronic disease. “We could start with hunger and malnutrition, which kill 3.1 million children under the age of five every year” (McGowan 8). Hunger is considered one of those ways and also causes other suffering barriers. Hunger is the craving and want of food. At times hunger causes a person to become very weak. Hunger has caused many child deaths throughout the centuries. Hunger is thought to only occur in underdeveloped countries, but that thought is wrong. There are a lot of children going through hunger in developed

“Hunger is more than missing a meal. It's a debilitating crisis that has almost one billion people in its grip.” (MercyCorps). World hunger is a serious problem in our world today. Men, women, and children suffer from lack of food all over the world. Food is one of the most important things we need to survive. According to Feed My Starving Children, “Food builds a solid foundation for communities to become strong and self-reliant.” Most importantly, the women, need to be fed also because if they are fed, they will give birth to a healthy baby. Most women are hungry and when they suffer from hunger they have a higher chance of having complications during birth

Many people don’t realize the sever issue that hunger can bring to their community, only because of the lack of knowledge on the situation. Food insecurity is the state of being without reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food. Hunger is a feeling of discomfort or weakness caused by lack of food, coupled with the desire to eat. Food and hunger are some of biggest social and public health issues people are dealing with in the United States. Over 41.2 million people in America live in food-insecure households, while 49 million are having a difficult time trying to provide food. 1 out of 6 people in America face hunger. This epidemic effects

Some countries have social stigmas that look down upon outsiders or women doing anything other than housework and raising a family, but putting more people to work not only provides more food put it also provides more money for their families. “The women have made progress in fighting hunger and poverty within an area characterized with high levels of food scarcity de to its semi-arid feature, attracting low levels of rainfall,” (“Feature: Kenya’s women fight hunger, poverty with bee products”). Members of villages have found that allowing their women to work outside of the home is helping especially in areas that have droughts and there crops die. A vice chair member in kenya has said “It is a good thing to see women do something to escape

Deere & Doss 2006 indicates that women are 5 percent of registered landholders in West Africa, 22.4 percent in the Mexican ejidos (communal farming lands) and 15.5 percent in Nicaragua. On average, men’s land holdings are almost three times women’s land holdings. This compromise land access leads women to make suboptimal decisions with regard to crop choices and to obtain lower yields than would otherwise be possible if household resources were allocated efficiently. Insecurity of tenure for women results in lower investment and potential environmental degradation. It also compromises future production potential and increases food insecurity. If women farmers in Bombali Sheborah and Makarie Gbanti Chiefdoms in particular and West Africa in general had the same access to farm inputs, education, and experience as their men counterparts, their yields for maize, beans, and cowpeas could increase as much as 22 percent (Quisumbing

Hunger is a feeling that people everywhere around the world have and are experiencing. Those who are unfortunate to be suffering from hunger do not know from where they will be getting their next meal. There are an estimated 842 millions of people who are exposed to hunger throughout the world every day (Mason, 2013). Hunger affects the same group of people in first and third world countries in the same way. The only difference is that there are more people affected by hunger in third and second world countries than those in developed countries. Hunger affects the vast majority of people who live in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. 34 million people live in former Soviet Union and 10 million live in industrialized countries (Mason, 2013).

A 1992 UN report discovered “the number of rural women living in poverty in the developing countries has increased by almost 50% over the past 20 years to an awesome 565 million.” (IPeterson)This quote exemplifies the deterioration of rural women 's identity that is imposed due to impact of colonial powers. However, it’s ironic how these countries are “developing” but still undergo a mass incline in the poverty rate amongst women, leads to question what their development plans to digress. With the establishment of agreements of international free trade policies, corporations used this motive as a way to generate profit from cheap labor in underdeveloped countries.

Over the years international food prices have been increasing at a rapid rate and though the effects can be seen globally, it of course has affected the low-income population the hardest. In total, millions of the world’s population transitioning into the worlds hungry (Human Development

Women comprise an estimated 43 per cent of the agricultural labour force in developing countries, and roughly 50 per cent in sub-Saharan Africa and Eastern Africa [1]. They produce most of the locally consumed food and are responsible for household food security in many areas [2].

Most of the women work in agricultural sector either as workers, in household farms or as wageworkers. Yet it is precisely livelihood in agriculture that has tended to become more volatile and insecure in recent years and women cultivators have therefore been negatively affected. The government's policies for alleviating poverty have failed to produce any desirable results, as women do not receive appropriate wages for their labour. There is also significant amount of unpaid or non-marketed labor within the household. The increase in gender disparity in wages in the urban areas is also quite marked as it results from the employment of women in different and lower paying activities. They are exploited at various levels. They should be provided with proper wages and work at par with men so that their status can be elevated in society.