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- Gender and desertification : making ends meet in drylands
Gender and desertification : making ends meet in drylands
Collectivite Auteur :
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Année de Publication :
2007
Type : Rapport
Thème : Agriculture
Couverture :
Maroc
URL Article :
http://www.ifad.org/pub/thematic/index.htmURL Source :
www.ifad.org 
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(434,92 kB) gender_desert_leaf.pdfRésumé/Sommaire :
Desertification is the process of land degradation that affects dryland areas and is caused by poverty, unsustainable land management and climate change. Drylands lose their productive capacity in a spiral of destruction that twins increased land degradation with increased poverty and food insecurity. Drought and desertification threaten the livelihoods of more than 1.2 billion people in 110 countries. The problem is particularly acute in sub-Saharan Africa and Southern Asia.
Land degradation leads to greater competition for the increasingly scarce resources upon which rural communities depend for their livelihoods and survival. Its impact is exacerbated by poor people’s lack of access to Women and men have different roles and needs, and often their access to land, water and other assets is not equal. Men are usually the landowners, managing cash crops and other high-earning natural resources. Women are usually responsible for the plots on which food crops are grown and for obtaining water and firewood for their families.
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