Agriculture
- Pamco Holds Kitchen Gardening Training Session
Punjab Agriculture and Meat Company (Pamco) has launched kitchen gardening training sessions for the housewives to grow vegetables at home under the project initiated by Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif to promote kitchen gardening in the province. ...
- Women In Agriculture
Friday, 26 July 2013 By: Baqar Shah, Agriculture Information Bank contributor From times memorable Women have played an important role, side by side with Men in agriculture. In fact the hard part in the field is done by women, plugging the produce like...
- Woman Farm Workers Being Paid Less Wages
Monday, July-08-2013 Woman farm workers are earning very poor return despite working hard in a hostile and humid weather. The women enaged in transplantation of nursary (Laab) for paddy crop in an agriculture farm near world acclaimed rice production...
- Agriculture-women Work Power
Pakistan is a third world country with more than 162 million population. It has varied strata of life with multidimensional livelihood strategies. Agriculture is the mainstay of the economy. It has employed 44.8% of the work force. More than 51%...
- Women Are Main Guardians Of Crucial Livestock Diversity
Women are main guardians of crucial livestock diversity New study argues that to succeed, breed conservation efforts must empower womenWoman with indigenous cattle in East Africa. 5 November 2012, Rome - Women livestock keepers worldwide must...
Agriculture
Celebrate the 100th anniversary of International Women?s Day
75% of all women cannot get bank loans because they have unpaid or insecure jobs and lack property ownership rights. Women are also 21% less likely than men even to own a mobile phone and therefore to have similar communication possibilities. Women perform two-thirds of the world?s work and produce half the world?s food, but earn just 10% of the income and own 1% of the property. Women constitute two-thirds of the world?s ~800 million illiterate adults (aged 15 and over). Educate a girl in Africa and she?ll earn 25% more income, be 3 times less likely to contract HIV/AIDS and have a smaller, healthier family
Only 28 countries have achieved the 30% target set in the early 1990s for women in decision-making positions. Worldwide, women are paid 17% less, and have less employment security than men
99% of maternal deaths are preventable, but every minute a woman dies from pregnancy-related causes. Worldwide, young women (15 - 24) are 1.6 times as likely as young men to be HIV positive. Every 14 seconds, another child becomes an orphan due to AIDS-related deaths. The abuse of women and girls is endemic around the world. One in three women will be raped, beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise violated in her lifetime.
Only 28 countries have achieved the 30% target set in the early 1990s for women in decision-making positions. Worldwide, women are paid 17% less, and have less employment security than men
99% of maternal deaths are preventable, but every minute a woman dies from pregnancy-related causes. Worldwide, young women (15 - 24) are 1.6 times as likely as young men to be HIV positive. Every 14 seconds, another child becomes an orphan due to AIDS-related deaths. The abuse of women and girls is endemic around the world. One in three women will be raped, beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise violated in her lifetime.
- Pamco Holds Kitchen Gardening Training Session
Punjab Agriculture and Meat Company (Pamco) has launched kitchen gardening training sessions for the housewives to grow vegetables at home under the project initiated by Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif to promote kitchen gardening in the province. ...
- Women In Agriculture
Friday, 26 July 2013 By: Baqar Shah, Agriculture Information Bank contributor From times memorable Women have played an important role, side by side with Men in agriculture. In fact the hard part in the field is done by women, plugging the produce like...
- Woman Farm Workers Being Paid Less Wages
Monday, July-08-2013 Woman farm workers are earning very poor return despite working hard in a hostile and humid weather. The women enaged in transplantation of nursary (Laab) for paddy crop in an agriculture farm near world acclaimed rice production...
- Agriculture-women Work Power
Pakistan is a third world country with more than 162 million population. It has varied strata of life with multidimensional livelihood strategies. Agriculture is the mainstay of the economy. It has employed 44.8% of the work force. More than 51%...
- Women Are Main Guardians Of Crucial Livestock Diversity
Women are main guardians of crucial livestock diversity New study argues that to succeed, breed conservation efforts must empower womenWoman with indigenous cattle in East Africa. 5 November 2012, Rome - Women livestock keepers worldwide must...