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Bill and I started our foundation to fight poverty and disease around the world. We invest in agriculture because【C1】________75％ of the world\’s poorest people live in rural areas, and the majority of them rely on agriculture or farming for their【C2】________. Making their farms more productive can help them eat more, earn more and live better lives.
I\’m embarrassed to say it now, but I wasn\’t thinking much about gender【C3】________in connection to our anti-poverty work. I bet if you\’d asked me to close my eyes and picture one of the farmers we were trying to reach, I would\’ve pictured a man.
As it【C4】________statistically speaking, at least half the time, I should\’ve been picturing a woman—and often, a mother. It also turns out that, while making a living from a small family farm plot is hard for anyone, the data tells us that it\’s especially hard for women. A【C5】________ 2011 study from the UN\’s Food and Agriculture Organization showed that women farmers in developing countries achieve 20％ to 30％ lower yields than men.
It\’s not that men are【C6】________better farmers. It\’s that a successful farmer requires a lot of things—including good land, good seeds and animals, helping hands, tools, time and know-how—and most women farmers don\’t have equal【C7】________to any of them.
The barriers【C8】________women fanners take many forms. Some countries still have laws and customs that bar women【C9】________inheriting land. Cultural【C10】________mean that women and men tend to grow different crops and raise different types of animals—and because agricultural research【C11】________focus on the high-margin crops that men grow, there\’s been less innovation in the lower-margin crops that women farm.
Women often have less decision-making power at home, including over the family budget. They\’re【C12】________to spend hours each day gathering water and wood, cooking and caretaking, which leaves them less time to do other things.
All of these learnings were a【C13】________for Bill and me. Since then, we\’ve made a number of【C14】________that are specifically designed to reflect the realities of women farmers\’ lives.
For example, we helped one of our partners, Farm Radio International, create a radio program that taught women best【C15】________for growing tomatoes. They also made sure to research what time women tended to listen to the radio, recognizing that if they【C16】________the program while men were home and controlling the【C17】________, women weren\’t going to get the information they needed.
Another program we supported, Pathways, operated by our partner CARE, went a step further. It not only taught women how to be better farmers—it also taught their husbands to see their wives as equal partners.
I travelled to Malawi to see this program in【C18】________and spent time with a farmer named Patricia. Patricia\’s husband realized that by【C19】________to invest in her farm plot and loading her down with other household tasks, he\’d been hurting her farm\’s potential and keeping her from earning more income. By the time I visited her village, Patricia had quadrupled her harvest and had plans to【C20】________her farm even more. And while the new skills and s
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