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World Rural Women's Day
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Peggy Schultz <[log in to unmask]>
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Health Promotion on the Internet <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 5 Oct 2005 15:31:02 -0400
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World Rural Women's Day is celebrated on OCTOBER 15 ...this year's theme is: "What Rights for Women as Rural Citizens?" - more information is available through http://www.rural-womens-day.org  - where you'll see some of the following facts about rural women:
	
	-rural women, mainly farmers are at least 1.6 billion and represent more than a quarter of the total world population
	-women produce on average more than half of all the food that is grown; up to 80% in Africa, 60% in Asia, between 30 & 40 % 	in Latin America and Western countries
	-women own only 2% of the land and receive only 1% of all agricultural credit
	-only 5% of all agricultural extension resources are directed to women
	-the number of rural women living in poverty has doubled since 1970

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