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  Women, Income-generating Activities and the Conservation of Natural Resources: Medicinal, Culinary and Aromatic Plants in the Sudan

  United Nations, 2002

  This paper presents information on the role of Sudanese medicinal, culinary and aromatic plants in the conservation of natural resources and in the generation of income for rural women. In most parts of the Sudan women constitute the principal labor force for both cash crops and food production.
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  Sudan Gender Profile

  United Nations Joint Assessment Mission, 2004

  This factsheet provides an overview of gender concerns and the status of women in Sudan.
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  Gender Strategy in Agriculture and Rural Development to the Year 2010

  Asian Development Bank, 2003

  The renovation process in Vietnam in the past decade has enabled significant economic growth as well as and greater rights and more important economic roles of farming households. However, much of this reform has focussed on men as head of households, meaning men have benefited more from economic reform, both economically and in terms of their power within the household.
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  Analysis of the Commission for Africa Report

  BRIDGE, 2005

  This follow-up to the United Kingdom (UK) Gender and Development Network's (GADN) submission to the Commission for Africa consultation process reviews and critiques the extent to which gender concerns are reflected in the final report of the Commission. Although the Commission's report recognises that women are a key part of the solution to Africa's problems, significant gaps remain.
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  Assessing the Gender Impact of the Community based Animal Health Programme in Southern Sudan

  Veterinaires sans Frontieres, Belgium, 2002

  How does the position of women in the Nuer Community affect the division of labour in livestock activities? In southern Sudan many communities are chronically food insecure with little access to livestock and its products (e.g. milk and blood meat).
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  Gender Strategy and Implementation Plan for Agriculture and Rural Development

  Asian Development Bank, 2004

  While laws and policies in Vietnam guarantee equality between women and men, in practise their implementation is not equal, for example with regard to land use rights, access to credit, and information and technological extension.
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  Rotten fruit: Tesco profits as women workers pay a high price

  ActionAid International, 2005

  Tesco recently announced record profits of ?2 billion. But according to this study by ActionAid in South Africa, thousands of women casual workers growing fruit on farms accredited by Tesco are being exploited. Findings showed that farm workers are paid below the minimum wage, are exposed to pesticides, suffer food insecurity, and have poor quality housing.
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  Report of the Secretary-General on the Situation of Women and Girls in Afghanistan

  United Nations [UN] Commission on the Status of Women ., 2004

  What is the situation of women and girls in Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban? There has been marked progress in the condition of Afghani women and girls, particularly those living in the capital Kabul, in recent years.
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  Gender, Conflict and Development

  World Bank, 2005

  This book highlights the gender dimensions of conflict, organised around major relevant themes such as female combatants, sexual violence, formal and informal peace processes, the legal framework, work, the rehabilitation of social services and community-driven development.
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  Rural Women's Access to Land and Property in Selected Countries: Progress Towards Achieving the Aims of Articles 14, 15 and 16 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

  International Land Coalition, 2004

  Women's access to land is a fundamental factor in food security. Yet women all over the world suffer under discriminatory property and inheritance laws and customary practices which restrict their rights over the land on which they live and work. Articles 15 and 16 of CEDAW state the rights of women to property and inheritance.

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