Women often provide most rural labour on small farms, animal husbandry and often have the most interest in the long term future of their land and in capacity development of their families and yet are underrepresented in community decision making. With more than 50% of the population now residing in cities, rural development has become the poor cousin of development although most food production in the world still comes from rural small farms. This may be changing as in recent times, the link between rural development and effective adaptation to and mitigation of the effects of human induced climatic change in rural areas has become increasingly obvious. Our view is new investment in rural development can and will likely make a substantial contribution to reducing green house gases while improving livelihoods through carbon bio-sequestration. HAAN has always had a strong focus on rural development and its members have extensive experience in rural development in more than 25 countries in Africa region.
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