Integrating a gender perspective in the right to food 2016, para. 5
Paragraphe
Paragraph text
On the other hand, female farmers are responsible for cultivating, ploughing and harvesting more than 50% of the world's food. In sub Saharan Africa and the Caribbean, women produce up to 80% of basic foodstuffs and in Asia women constitute 50-90 percent of the labour force dedicated to rice production. Moreover, in many parts of the world majority of female farmers mainly engaged in subsistence farming.
Status juridique
Non-negotiated soft law
Organe
Special Rapporteur on the right to food
Type de document
Special Procedures' report
Mode d'adoption
N.A.
Thèmes
Economic Rights
Food & Nutrition
Gender
Personnes concernées
Women
Année
2016
Type de paragraphe
Other
Reference
SR Food, Report to the HRC (2016), A/HRC/31/51, para. 5.