Inadequate health care.

Employment of women in rural areas

(e) Division of Peasant Women and Rural Organization, in the Ministry of Agriculture, which encourages productive projects run by peasant women.

Programme Component E.5 Rural Energy for Productive Use

Programme Component E.5 Rural Energy for Productive Use 69

They impeded productive activities, particularly in rural areas.

Programme Component E.5 Rural Energy for Productive Use 70

Rural Pakistani women are not only responsible for time and energy consuming household tasks but are also major contributors to the rural economy particularly in three sub sectors crop production, livestock production and cottage industry.

(a) Creating an enabling environment that encourages the participation of rural producers and small farmers

(a) Creating an enabling environment that encourages the participation of rural producers and small farmers

The principal shortcoming is that the rural population has 1.0 obstetrician gynaecologist per 10,000 population, whereas that figure is 3.8 for the urban population.

Livelihood industries are those, which assure sustainable sources of livelihoods for the rural poor.

In 2003, agriculture accounts for 21.8 of GDP, which involved 75 of the rural population.

The information distribution system helps agricultural producers and rural entrepreneurs to find and understand information and provides regular feedback to the Ministry of Agriculture about the information needs of rural entrepreneurs.

In rural areas, women are involved in selling at markets, or they earn their living as farm workers on private farms.

The percentages accounted for by specialists who provide prenatal services to women in the village differ from those in the city. Some 37 of services in rural areas are provided by a physician, and 30.2 , by a midwife in the city, physicians provide 63.0 of the services, and midwives, 21 .

The study focused on rural producers in Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Sri Lanka, examining the changes in local markets and rural production since the initiation of the liberalizing programmes.

Given that most of the production processes involved are carried out in rural areas, this provides a much needed boost to rural agricultural economies where new job opportunities would be created.

Trading centers are opened in the areas with strong production of goods to help women in rural areas to trade agricultural products and increase their incomes.

(b) Agriculture land cover and suitability, productivity and yield, rural management, soil conservation

Identifying income generating activities related to the production, generation or use of energy in rural areas.

World Rural Women's Day, 15 October proposed at the 1995 Beijing Women's Conference by ACWW, International Federation of Agricultural Producers and other concerned representatives.

17 women's groups have received training in nutritional health and food hygiene, in cooperation with the Ministry of Health (raising village nutrition levels, providing safe drinking water in the village).

It is also important to have enabling production sector strategies, including those addressing rural development.

It is well known that rural women in Syria have numerous reproductive, social and productive roles.

As 75 per cent of the world's poor live in rural areas where agriculture is the main stay of the economy, raising agricultural productivity has real impact on poverty reduction.

Women in rural areas take part in almost all stages of agricultural production since they constitute 70 80 of the workforce.

The rural extension unit was established in 1992, in the National Directorate of Rural Extension (DNER). Past efforts in the DNER to reach rural women with extension services were geared toward women's reproductive role.

In the process, we will gain about a million good jobs, mainly rural.

The rural village electrification programme is an integral part of the total power sector development in Pakistan in order to increase the productive capacity and socio economic standard of 70 percent of population living in the rural areas.

The aim of the Corporation is to implement State programmes for lending to agricultural commodity producers and or farm product processing enterprises through a system of rural credit associations created with the participation of the Corporation in their registered capital.

Rural development increasing food output and incomes

In Myanmar, where 70 per cent of the population lived in rural areas, women played a crucial role working on farms and engaging in off farm activities.

It is specifically for the purpose of expanding the rural population's access to family planning services that the Ministry of Health is employing the practice of training midwives who work in rural areas.

This table also shows the diversification of rural employment as a result of the worsening economic crisis in the farm sector, which has compelled many rural workers to take non farm work.

In the post natal period, 58.4 of the services are provided by physicians, and 12.8 , by midwives. In the city, 78.4 are provided by physicians in rural areas, 53.5 .

Persons that deal with agriculture and cattle herding within the framework of productive and reproductive ( unproductive ) work are included into the active rural population.

The process of globalization has direct and indirect effects on the empowerment of rural women.

C. Grass roots innovations and rural livelihoods

(c) Sanitary rural housing

Source Special Project for Rural Land Titling and Property Registration (PETT), Ministry of Agriculture.

With shares quantifying to each villager, the highlight of the rural collective economic reform is to be clear about the property rights of rural collective management and exploring political and economic separation.

(i) Supporting remunerative non agricultural employment of rural women, improving working conditions and increasing access to productive resources

To that end, we deem it necessary to increase productive investment in rural and agricultural development to achieve lasting food security.

OF OUTPUT AND BY SEX, SEPTEMBER 1994