Traditionally, it is women in developing countries who bear the brunt of the responsibility for food, from production to preparation and marketing. In rural regions they usually face this task alone, as the men often go to the cities to look for work. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), women produce more than half of all the world's food, and in Africa the figure could be as high as 80 per cent. Yet, although women produce most of the food, they own only a small percentage of the land and hold fewer than two per cent of land rights around the globe.
