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Empowerment of women one of four lever changes, which has the power to make or destroy the food system, the UN food system is pre summit

Bathinda: While women on Monday managing the parliamentary process of farmers parallel to the ongoing rainy season session, raising demands for more representations for women in every way of life, the UN Food System three days Pre Summit starts on Monday is also debated on Monday roles Female farmers, food farmers.
It was stated by Food and Agriculture Organizations (FAO) based on comparable international data, women consisted of an average of 43 percent of the agricultural workforce of developing countries.
Sharing females in the agricultural workforce ranged from around 20 percent in Latin America to more than 50 percent in East Asia and Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.
According to the UN Development Program (UNDP) at the end of 2021, for every 100 men aged 25 to 34 years living in extreme poverty, there will be 118 women, the gap that is expected to increase to 121 women per 100 men in 2030.
in a query by Toi, the special envoy of the United Nations Secretary General for the Summit of the Food System, Agnes Kalibata in a statement to Tii said: “Rural women around the world are food security guards, assuming so much burden of family nutrition and playing invaluable, unseen roles in agriculture.
This is why gender equality, or sustainable development goals (SDG) 5, it is very important for the food system: no food security without gender equality.
“The food system summit acknowledges that women’s empowerment is one of the four levers of change, which has strength To make or destroy the food system.
The Summit has appointed a global expert, a Njuki Jemimah from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), to ensure the Summit handles the food system in a way that recognizes and responds to various gender needs, preferences and challenges.
“The first step towards women’s empowerment in the food system is to make sure they have a chair at the table.
Women are represented at every level of the supporting structure of the Summit because we need sound, insight, and creativity everyone to truly change the food system for all”, he said.

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