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The key role of rural women in building resilience to disasters
Mona S. Chaya
Deputy Strategic Objective Coordinator on Resilience
and Senior Coordinator Food Chain Crises
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Yatta, West Bank and Gaza StripPalestinian farmer woman tending the garden in the backyard of her
home.
Women: building resilience to disasters Effects (impact) of disasters
◦ particularly on women
September 2010, Pakistan, Thul - Floods
Natural disasters, conflict, and other crises, have different impacts on
women, girls, boys and men
In developing countries women comprise 43 percent of the
agricultural labour force
NigerA woman tiling the soil with a small trowel in a vegetable garden
Pakistan, Kot Chutta Rural women harvesting vegetables
Women are key to agriculture and to food and nutrition security
Building resilience:the women of Kanem (Chad)
- Gardening activities have significantly
increased food production for household consumption
www.fao.org/emergencies
Closing the gender gap understanding how women and men are
affected differently in crisis leads to more effective response
crises can transform gender roles equal opportunities to women in agriculture
Rural women key to building resilience to disasters