“In this Feed the Future video, narrator Matt Damon discusses the importance of increasing food production around the world and notes the importance of equipping women with the right tools, training, and  technology to see as much as a 30 percent increase in food production. To feed our growing population we need to increase food production by 70 percent before 2050. Women make up the majority of the agricultural workforce in many areas of the world.”

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A colleague mine thought that the ideas in this video were so obvious and non-controversial, he said, “Why does this even need to be stated? Why would we exclude women from agriculture?”  The simple answer is that it wouldn’t need to be stated if women around the world did have equal access to resources.  For many of the world’s poor, this is where the rubber meets the road. 

Tags: development, gender, agriculture, food production, labor.