Project Briefs

Women and youth participation: Making local seed businesses gender inclusive

Background

Women play a big role in Ugandan subsistence farming systems including the seed sector. Women carry out the majority of farming activities related to hard, manual labour such as weeding, land opening, and harvesting. Regardless of the fact that women carry the major burden of agricultural production, it is men who control and make decisions over the use of financial and natural resources. Women may or may not get a share in profits from agricultural produce sold.