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Improving Women’s Role in Agricultural Production and Food Security Promotion

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Agricultural production is a complex production process. In this process, soil, water, and biological resources and other agricultural inputs are used and plants, animal products, aquaculture, and other outputs are produced.

Food security exists when all human beings at all times have the physical, social, and economic opportunity to obtain sufficient, safe, and nutritious food to meet their food needs and preferences for active and healthy life. CSA (2012) has identified the fourth pillar in addition to these three pillars, which is stability of access capacity determined by price and purchasing power, food availability and quality, and diets. Food availability refers to the existence in a region, nation, or family of sufficient quantities of food, regardless of its origin (Bricas 2012).

Genderrefers to the socio-cultural construction of male and female roles and relationships between men and women. Gender describes social functions that are assimilated and culturally...

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  1. Department of Agricultural Economics, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey

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  2. Economic Community of West African States, Abuja, Nigeria

    Babou Sogué

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Özçatalbaş, O., Sogué, B. (2020). Improving Women’s Role in Agricultural Production and Food Security Promotion. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A.M., Brandli, L., Lange Salvia, A., Wall, T. (eds) Gender Equality. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70060-1_77-1

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