Global food production has more than doubled over the past 40 years, growing faster than population, and will likely keep pace in the 21st century.

Using data from fieldwork conducted in Nepal, the impact of a project designed to commercialize vegetables and fruits — the Vegetable and Fruit Cash Crop Program (VFC)— on male and female time allocation is examined.

In 1987, an improved resource management system that incorporates velvet bean (Mucuna pruriens var.

El papel de la mujer en la economía se ha subestimado con frecuencia y su trabajo en la agricultura ha sido invisible por mucho tiempo.

This brief examines the key roles that women play in ensuring food security and makes three recommendations of ways to strengthen the food security through policies and programs that enhance women's abilities and resources to fulfill their ro

This food policy report synthesizes current research about the roles that women play in ensuring food security in the developing world--P. v.

Le présent rapport de politique alimentaire présente la synthèse de la recherche actuelle sur les fonctions que les femmes remplissent pour garantir la sécurité alimentaire dans le monde en développement.

This paper reviews the econometric evidence on gender differences in agricultural productivity.

En este informe sobre política alimentaria se sintetizan las investigaciones en curso sobre la función que de sempeña la mujer para garantizar la seguridad alimentaria en el mundo en desarrollo.

In this report, Shubh K. Kumar examines the reasons for low productivity of maize, the principal crop in Eastern Province, Zambia, compared with its potential, and suggests steps for increasing future productivity.