Across developing countries, the agricultural sector is an essential source of economic growth, employment, poverty reduction and food security. Women play a vital role in agriculture, yet there is little research focusing on the impact of rising investment in the agricultural sector on the role...

This report is an update to the above mentioned UNCTAD/World Bank study (the “first phase”). Following that researchers revisited eight operations in four countries(Cambodia, Ethiopia, Mozambique and Tanzania),conducting a total of 113 detailed additional interviewswith 349 stakeholders...