Rural women, including pastoralist and indigenous women, play a key role in eradicating poverty. The most important resource for rural women is land, and despite their crucial contribution to agriculture and food security, women across the world are discriminated against in terms of their access to, ownership of and control over land and the income produced from it. Social norms and lack of power still hinder women’s participation in decision-making processes and land governance.

15 October 2011 was the International Day of Rural Women and the Land Portal celebrated the women who, across time and countries, are struggling for their rights to dignity, equality and participation and those women and men who are working to improve women’s land rights.

More information

If you want to know more, please visit the Land Portal and join the Land Portal Gender Group.

See also

• Launch of the Land Portal - Washington, 19 April 2011 
  
• Rural Women and Development
• World rural women's day
• Women and Agriculture
• Women and Land Tenure
• Access to land

External links

• Honouring 100 Women To Mark 100 Years Of Women’s Resistance;
• The UN official site for the International Day of Rural Women;*The UN Women Executive Director Michelle Bachelet’s Message on the International Day of Rural Women 2011;
• Open letter to rural women from the Women’s World Summit Foundation to Rural Women;
• The International Day of Rural Women on Facebook