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The Challenge of Increasing Agricultural Productivity in Africa South of the Sahara
The following post by IFPRI senior researcher Alejandro Nin Pratt was originally published on ASTI News and Notes .
What Part Do Women Play in Agricultural Labor?
Since it was first cited in a 1972 paper by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, the idea that women perform 60-80 percent of agricultural labor in Africa has been a central theme in the broader debate about gender and development. A new study released by the World Bank’s Living Standards Measurement Study – Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMSISA) initiative is now calling this commonly accepted wisdom into question, however.