International Women’s Day 2011

International Women’s Day: Closing the gender gap in agriculture

8 March 2011, Rome, Italy - On International Women’s Day, the three Rome-based UN agencies hosted a roundtable debate on closing the gender gap in agriculture. An international panel of experts debated the costs of gender inequality for agricultural productivity, poverty and hunger and discussed appropriate action to be taken.

FAO, IFAD and WFP
International Women’s Day
Agriculture: closing the gender gap
The State of Food and Agriculture 2010-11

Tuesday March 8 2011
Green Room, FAO Headquarters

9:30 – 11:00: Closing the gender gap in agriculture - Key findings from the State of Food and Agriculture 2010-11 presented by
Hafez Ghanem, Assistant Director-General, Food and Agriculture Organization

Open debate and Q&A from the floor
Moderator: Zeinab Badawi, Anchor, BBC World News and BBC Four

Respondents:

Bina Agarwal, Director, Institute of Economic Growth, University of Delhi, India
Smita Bhatnagar, Senior Coordinator, Self Employed Women’s Association, India
Kevin Cleaver, Associate Vice President, Programme Management Department,
International Fund for Agricultural Development
Thenjiwe Ethel Mtintso, H.E. Ambassador of the Republic of South Africa

11:00 – 12:30: Closing the gender gap in agriculture - what does this mean

Video Statements

Hillary Rodman Clinton, United States Secretary of State
Jacobo Regalado, Minister of Agriculture, Honduras
Madame Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia

Open debate and Q&A from the floor
Moderator: Zeinab Badawi, Anchor, BBC World News and BBC Four

Respondents:
Elizabeth Atananga, President, Plateforme Régionale des Organisations Paysannes d’Afrique Centrale, Cameroon
Arlene Mitchell, Senior Program Officer, Agricultural Development Program, Market Access Team, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (to be confirmed)
Sheila Sisulu, Deputy Executive Director, World Food Programme
Ann Tutwiler, Deputy Director-General, Food and Agriculture Organization
Hans-Heinrich Wrede, H.E. Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany

Fore more information: www.fao.org/publications/sofa/en/