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Gender and youth

Gender and youth

While women constitute 43% of the agricultural workforce, they produce 20%–30% smaller crop yields than men due to their lack of access to and control over resources, including land, …

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Climate change

Climate change

Climate change amplifies the impacts of other risks for smallholder farmers, such as extreme weather and pests and diseases. No longer regarded as a future challenge to be …

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Food security

Food security

Too many people worldwide lack access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food. As many as 828 million people still go hungry. Many of these people are either smallholder …

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Biodiversity

Biodiversity

Biodiversity loss is proceeding at an unprecedented pace, jeopardizing the stability of natural ecosystems, increasing vulnerability to climate change, limiting options for climate adaptation and threatening food security.

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