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This paper is concerned mainly with women who work on the land as small-holders, tenants or landless workers, with a special focus on those who depend primarily on small-scale farming. Women in traditional agrarian settings contribute more to food production and family earnings in skilled labour and entrepreneurship than is generally known or accepted

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword by the Director-General of FAO -- Explanatory notes -- Contributors to the book -- Chapter 1 Introduction and overview -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Overview -- Chapter 2 Prospects for food and nutrition -- 2.1 The broad picture: historical developments and present situation -- 2.2 The outlook for food and nutrition to 2015 and 2030 -- 2.3 Structural changes in the commodity composition of food consumption -- 2.4 Concluding remarks -- Chapter 3 Prospects for aggregate agriculture and major commodity groups -- 3.1 Aggregate agriculture: historical trends and prospects -- 3.2 Cereals -- 3.3 Livestock commodities -- 3.4 Oilcrops, vegetable oils and products -- 3.5 Roots, tubers and plantains -- 3.6 Main export commodities of the developing countries -- Chapter 4 Crop production and natural resource use -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Sources of growth in crop production -- 4.3 Agricultural land -- 4.4 Irrigation and water use -- 4.5 Land-yield combinations for major crops -- 4.6 Input use -- Chapter 5 Livestock production -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Consumption of livestock products -- 5.3 Production -- 5.4 Major perspective issues and possible policy responses -- 5.5 Concluding remarks -- Chapter 6 Forestry -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 The present state of forests -- 6.3 Forces shaping forestry and areas of change -- 6.4 Probable changes up to 2015 and 2030 -- 6.5 Major perspective issues in world forestry -- 6.6 Where is forestry heading? -- Chapter 7 Fisheries -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 World fisheries at the end of the 1990s -- 7.3 Plausible developments in world fisheries -- 7.4 Concluding remarks -- Chapter 8 Agriculture in poverty alleviation and economic development -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Internationally agreed poverty reduction targets