Today is 15th October and it's International Day of Rural Women (A/RES/62/136)
Why are rural women separated from urban women? Why do they have a special day? Why was the Better Life for Rural Women in Nigeria in the late 80s and early 90s not sustained? What have rural women been made to face in recent times? Are they only 'good' for victims of banditry, flood, violence or oppression and photo opps?
Rural women are you and I women who decided not to migrate to the city but stay to build their communities in several ways- teaching, farming, fishing, tie and dying, crafting, trading and other laudable endeavours including raising proper families. Support rural women Don't abuse women Protect rural women Rural women are not witches or evil TLF is asking for donations in cash and kind to reach out to rural women. I have started gathering clothes and other things I'll share in the rural areas I'd visit this period. You can join me! God will reward you.
Generally, rural women are majorly involved in agricultural activities such as planting, weeding, harvesting, processing and marketing.
They also keep some domestic animals and birds. Empowering rural women will go a long way to improving the economic life of the women and also the well-being of individuals, families and the rural communities.
Social, cultural traditions and agricultural constraints can limit rural women’s economic status. Rural women’s limited access to productive resources, low educational level and illiteracy are contributors to rural women’s poverty. Illiteracy affects their chances to benefit from newer, non-traditional methods such as: information and communication technologies.
The promotion of agricultural development should be through the provision of useful and relevant information to the farming communities by the extension services. The unpaid work that women perform at home and farm are not recognized for official record. There are many constraints making rural women farmers to be lagging behind economically, apart from lack of agricultural information.
The main constraints are the lack of personal land and credit. There is evidence that empowering women in multiple ways will contribute to their own food security and nutrition and that of their families.
Women are limited in terms of their potential in contributing to agricultural development. Reducing the gender disparities or discrimination will generate significant gains for the agricultural sector.
There is the need for national laws and policies that promote women’s rights to own land, property and have equal access to credit for their businesses.
- Mr Raymond Eboigbe
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TLF 💚
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