Women play a major role in agriculture in Africa, contributing 60-80% of food production, yet they face significant constraints in accessing resources like agricultural extension services, fertilizer, and credit. Targeting support to women farmers through approaches like increasing access to extension, improving fertilizer distribution methods, and strengthening land rights could increase agricultural productivity by 10-20% and have broader development benefits. For agricultural interventions to be effective for women, they need a holistic approach that is adapted to local gender roles and ensures women's meaningful participation and impact on incomes.

1. Are We Ignoring a Vital Resource? Reaching African Women Farmers with Productivity-enhancing Technologies Catherine Ragasa Borlaug Symposium July 14, 2010

4. Access to agricultural extension services in Ghana World Bank and IFPRI 2010

8. Promising approaches in reaching poor women farmers’

10. Men and women participants in Farmer Field Schools in East Africa Impact of participation in FFS on crop productivity across gender of household head Davis et al. 2010

15. Satisfaction with agricultural extension (percent of respondents) Adoption of new technologies (in the last 2 years) Low adoption – not because of technology or extension services but because of no complementary inputs World Bank and IFPRI 2010