2024 International Day of Rural Women: An lnternational Crusader for the Rights and Responsibilities of Citizens, Dr Oluedo Eric, has commended African Rural Women for their Soil-to-Stomach, Soil-to-Storage and Soil-to-Market Systems: Raising crops, animals, fish etc, Harvesting, Preparing the food, Feeding their families, Storage and Marketing for the future. The theme of this year’s event is “Empowering Women Living in Rural Areas through Education and Access to Technology: Bridging the Gap for Inclusive and Sustainable Agri-Food Systems in Africa”.
Speaking on the Theme, Dr Oluedo pointed out that across the world, the Soil-to-Stomach, Soil-to-Storage and Soil-to-Market Food Systems depend on the daily work of rural women: they are involved in farming, food processing, preparation, marketing, land, natural resource management, and building climate resilience. However, less than 15% of women are agricultural landowners and they have limited access to training, productivity enhancing inputs such as quality seeds/stocks, agrochemicals and irrigation facilities, markets etc. The same women often have less access to food and a higher risk of hunger, malnutrition, undernutrition and food insecurity than their male counterparts, due to unequal power relations and discriminatory gender norms, for example, resulting in women eating last and least in the household, as well as their disproportionate responsibility for unpaid caregiving and domestic work.
The day recognizes the critical role and contribution of Rural Women, including indigenous women, in enhancing agricultural and rural development, improving food security, and eradicating rural poverty. Much of the labor contribution of women remains invisible and unpaid for.
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