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Abstract
In poor countries the agricultural sector is essential to growth, poverty reduction, and food security.
In Sub- Saharan Africa, the agricultural sector employs 65 percent of the labor force and generates
32 per cent of GDP growth (Christian Friis Bach and all, 2008).More than half of rural
employment in Sub- Saharan Africa consists of self-employed farmers, many of whom are women.
Women generally own less land and the land they have is often of lower quality than the land
owned by men. According to the International Development Research Centre, women in Africa
only own 1 per cent of the land. Women have to contend with limited access to financial and
technical resources. Women lack political influence.
However the recent economic crisis that has affected the food crisis may have considerable
consequences on African rural women who are mostly vulnerable in African society and may
increase some challenges that can limited the African agriculture growth as women is the heart of
this sector in Africa even if most of politic don’t consider them in the policies. This paper is to
evaluate the major effect of this crisis on this vulnerable group In Africa and define some
perspective that policies maker could use for Africa Agriculture sustainable growth..
The Descriptive analysis show that the economic crisis has increase in gender inequality in
agriculture sector, increase women financial credit access lack, women farmer migration, women
farmer income reduction, women land access facilities reduction and their health problem has also
increase.
It is clear that to solve the economic crisis impact on African agriculture for sustainable growth,
policies maker should include more policies which should consider women farmers. Research also
should focus more on women vulnerability in agriculture face the economic crisis.