Agriculture, trade negotiations and gender

Women and men are not evenly represented among the various agriculturalsectors such as livestock farming or export crops. These sectors aredifferently affected by trade liberalization, and therefore theconsequences for women and men are not the same. Existing gender gapsmay increase or shrink. Additionally, since women and men often havedifferent education, income and skills, their capacity to respond tochanges in policy also varies. This paper discusses some relevantgender-related issues regarding the implications that the agriculturaltrade expansion and liberalization have on aspects linked to genderinequalities that exist in the agricultural and rural sector (ZoraidaGarcia, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2006).