Taiwo Mafimisebi

INTRODUCTIONWomen are more disadvantaged than men in securingformal sector employment opportunitiesLess access to resources and skills tend to confine themlow-investment and low-income informal sector livelihoodactivitiesIncreasing economic and social pressures on women tocontribute more to household income and assetsThis has challenged them to widen or broaden their onfarmand off-farm agricultural activities in a bid to improvelivelihoodThe capacity of smallholder farming and artisanal fishingto provide the major means of survival for the ruralpopulace is fast diminishing in the developing world