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VΙΙ. EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROGRAMMES FOR WOMEN FARMERS The Organization of Agricultural Vocational Education, Training and Employment (Ο.G.Ε.Ε.Κ.Α.

Female farmers in the mountainous and remote areas, especially single, household headed and old women, are the most vulnerable group.

Female farmers in remote and mountainous areas, especially single, household headed and elderly women are the most vulnerable.

Improvement of the age related composition of the Rural Population. (Programme for Young Farmers)

Women farmers, in particular, are expected to benefit.

To paraphrase what many women farmers have said to me, We are the primary producers.

She works with a handful of other female coffee farmers who live and work here with their children.

During the period 2001 2003, training programmes for 2,141 women farmers were implemented.

The Agricultural Bank of Namibia, for example, provided low interest loans to women farmers.

Involve more women in KUD (village cooperative unit) and women farmers in KUT (Farming Cooperative).

On the whole, banks have tended to underestimate the productivity of women farmers and their ability to repay loans.

In a few countries, moreover, male extension agents receive specific guidance on working with women farmers.

Women farmers, who constitute almost half of small farmers, and women entrepreneurs face additional barriers attributable to their social roles.

Training with respect to livestock and subsistence crops, where women farmers predominate, has received much less attention.

The Bangladesh Kishani Sabha is an organization of women farmers that works with landless women.

To bring extension to rural women, complete and correct information on women farmers in the region must first be obtained.

The relevant report of the Secretary General on world commodity trends and prospects (A 59 304) included a reference to women farmers.

The above mentioned Operational Programmes, in the context of implementing gender mainstreaming, include actions or activities for the support of women farmers.

In Ukraine, under a project entitled Sustaining women farmers , about 2,000 prospective women entrepreneurs have attended training seminars in information and communication technologies.

96. Some countries in South East Asia, southern and north Africa have successfully recruited and trained female extension workers as a means of reaching women farmers.

It was high time that the Government had a comprehensive development policy for rural women that enabled small scale women farmers to own their land, receive assistance and credit from private and public sources at low interest rates, and receive formal and informal training in order to become prosperous farmers on their own land.

The Bank apos s priority areas include education (at least through the secondary level), health and family planing services, information, credit and other measures to assist women farmers or entrepreneurs in the private sector, and the wage labour force.

On the whole, in the area of extension, the needs of women farmers have largely been overlooked only 3 per cent of extension organizations apos time and resources are allocated to women in Asia, and only 5 per cent in the whole world.

In Western China, women farmers were able to increase their income and enhance their status through access to information for marketing their agricultural products via the rural information and communications technology centres for poverty reduction, established by UNDP.

Indeed, giving female farmers access to the same resources as their male counterparts could reduce the number of undernourished people worldwide by 100 150 million.