Gender and Development

Gender equality is an essential precondition for a human rights-based, socially just, economically and ecologically sustainable development of democratic societies. Yet people around the world are still affected by gender-specific discrimination and excluded from equal participation in public and political life. In order to actively combat this, German Development Cooperation is actively engaged in promoting gender equality. 

13%
Only 13 % of landowners worldwide are women, although they make up the majority of those employed in agriculture, forestry and fisheries.