Sub Saharan Africa is known as the poorest area in the world, according to recent rural poverty report. It’s estimated that about 60% of 300 million rural people on the continent live in extreme poverty.
In Africa, women play important role in agricultural production –the most important sector contributing income for African households. Recent study of ICRAF found that women are not profiting nearly as much as they could from agroforestry – farm practice enabling the growing of trees on farms.
I think this study alerts us how the effort of alleviating poverty in Africa is facing the critical situation on women’s role. Let see 5 important findings of ICRAF’s study on gender and agriculture production in Africa: