Report of Workshop on: What Will It Take? Challenges and Strategies for Putting Women at the Center of Global Food Security
Gates Foundation Office, Washington, D.C.
9 December 2008
Women Organizing for Change in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (WOCAN) and the IFAD North American Liaison Office organized a one day meeting with representatives of African women farmers, foundations, UN agencies, World Bank, US based NGOs, private sector companies and the US government to generate ideas to think critically together about the challenge of accelerating current efforts to recognize and address gender in agriculture and to empower women farmers and rural producers by addressing the following questions: How can we ensure that women are at the center of the global effort to sustainably grow and market more food, fuel, and fiber? More specifically, where there is momentum to make agriculture a high priority, what would it take to guarantee that women are at the center of such initiatives? What are some creative, fresh, and innovative ways to promote the recognition of and support for women's central role in pro-poor agricultural development?
