Development Works Number 5, December 2012 | Page 6

Share of Male and Female Agricultural Holders in Main Developing Regions Latin America and the Caribbean Sub-Saharan Africa Southern Asia and Southeastern Asia North Africa and West Asia Oceania 0 10 20 30 I Female 40 50 60 Percentage 70 80 90 100 I Male The “agricultural holder” is the person who has management authority over a particular piece of land. Within each continent average, women’s land holdings can vary widely by country. For example, Africa’s average (15 percent of agricultural holders are women) includes data from Mali (where less than 5 percent are women), and from Botswana and Malawi (where more than 30 percent are women). Source: The State of Food and Agriculture 2010—Women and Agriculture: Closing the Gender Gap for Development. Data: FAO Gender and Land Rights Database, FAO, 2010. Find out more about Bread for the World Institute online at www.bread.org/institute. Get the latest facts on hunger, download our hunger reports, and read what our analysts are writing about on the Institute blog. President, David Beckmann | Director, Asma Lateef 425 3rd Street SW, Suite 1200, Washington, DC 20024 Tel [phone] Fax [phone] [email protected] www.bread.org/Institute 6