Recommendation for Creation of Agriculture Where Women Farmers can Shine: Locate, Place and Unite Women Farmers

Abstract

Women farmers play an important role in sustainable development of agriculture. The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) has established the Committee to Consider Policy Measures for Empowering Women Farmers under the Management Bureau in July 2020, with a view to reflect opinions of women farmers, experts and supporters of women farmers in the Fifth Basic Plan for Gender Equality to be decided by the Cabinet in December 2020. The report which was published in December 2020 provided four major recommendations for further empowering women farmers, and also overviewed the progress and development of women farmers since 1992, the year when “The Mid- and Long-Term Vision for Women in Rural Areas” was established as the first action plan related to women by MAFF.