Nearly 42 is engaged in agriculture and 57.9 in non agricultural activity industry.

33. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) undertook a broad range of activities including preparation of activities for World Food Day, 1998, the theme of which is Women feed the world .

Of the total number of people economically active in agriculture, 49 per cent were women.

In rural areas, the economic activity rates stand at 38 per cent of total rural inhabitants the rate is 10.2 per cent for females and 65.5 per cent for males.

Of the total number of people economically active in agriculture, 47 per cent were women.

Of the total number of people economically active in agriculture, 42 per cent were women.

Of the total number of people economically active in agriculture, 55 per cent were women.

Of the total number of people economically active in agriculture, 5 per cent were women.

The vast majority of the population lives in rural areas, at a subsistence level.

The services addressing the development of rural and women's entrepreneurship draw on the fact that sustainable poverty reduction requires the creation of industrial productive capacities based on a dynamic transition from agricultural to rural non farm activities.

Farmers rely on natural resources to carry out their activities.

Conventional credit institutions are not interested in farming and other types of women's income generating activities such as small scale livestock raising and the processing of agricultural products and harvests.

Specializations in training were urban, rural and criminal police activities.

This table also shows the diversification of rural employment as a result of the worsening economic crisis in the farm sector, which has compelled many rural workers to take non farm work.

On the other hand, the number of women working in agriculture has been declining steadily only 2.02 per cent of working women are now employed in agriculture.

35. Credit for agricultural producers should also be provided to allow them to purchase inputs necessary to undertake agricultural activities.

Renewable energy is intimately and inextricably bound up with farmers and farming activities.

The projects support rural women in their agricultural activities and in capacity building for household food security.

Rural workers women make up 50 per cent of the EAP in rural areas.

The percentage of the labour force engaged in agriculture and associated food processing and transportation activities also varied widely.

48. Under the PEACE Initiative, UNOPS is supporting activities in agriculture, income generation, health and education in rural areas.

BY AGE GROUP AND SEX, SEPTEMBER 1994

15. The native communities have developed agriculture as an activity to supplement hunting, fishing and gathering.

The FAO subregional offices work closely with the respective regional offices and are primarily responsible for the overall planning of FAO activities in the subregion.

Some children in rural farming areas help their parents in agricultural activities during their leisure time.

At the same time, locally grown fruit and vegetables have become increasingly popular with the public, as well as with local restaurateurs, who support the local farmers.10 In order to promote farming, the Department of Agriculture organized, in March 2004, agricultural exhibitions on the islands of Anegada and Virgin Gorda, as well as a Food Fair and Market Day, as part of the Farmers Week.11

This year, the Ministry of Agriculture conducted a nationwide search for the most beautiful agricultural technological workers.

The strategies proposed by the programme highlighted economic growth as a priority for the development of the rural sector and gave pride of place to agricultural activities.

Section IV highlights recent activities related to organic agriculture, including activities of the International Task Force on Harmonization and Equivalence in Organic Agriculture and TC CB activities.

Since independence, every constitution of the Niger has proclaimed the principle of equality.

According to the information received, the killing was motivated by their activities in support of the families displaced from the Bellacruz ranch (2 October 1996)

In this context, the diversification towards rural non farm activities, initially based on the processing of agricultural resources, is of crucial importance.

29. Some 14.8 million people inhabit rural areas, of whom 41 per cent are wage earners, 39 per cent work in agriculture (29 per cent of them on their own farms) and 20 per cent living on unearned sources of income (pensioners, etc.).

Activities of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations for the empowerment of rural women and gender equality

In Myanmar, where 70 per cent of the population lived in rural areas, women played a crucial role working on farms and engaging in off farm activities.

Services are lacking, particularly as far as sanitation and domestic water are concerned

DEVELOPMENT Our rural development programmes are aimed at self reliance of rural women through promoting skill training, income generation activities and supportive activities.

They impeded productive activities, particularly in rural areas.

Table 29. Economic activity of people aged 15 17 years

Safe drinking water supply activities have focused on rural districts.

Agriculture, largely of a subsistence nature, is the main economic activity.

Now she can run all of the activities of her farm.

It has helped to value life in the countryside and to re invigorate village life through the activities of societies, common events, competitions to take care of public areas, and voluntary work.

Even the female farm worker tends to define herself as a housewife, rather than as a worker involved in an agricultural activity.

Thanks to the activities described above, today many women are in a position to fend for themselves and to earn incomes.