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earning between men and women.
The women and girls also face
the problems of: trafficking for sexual
exploitation and labour force;
often denied to decision making at
home, at work and in political life;
disproportionate share of unpaid
jobs and domestic work, and gaps in
legal frameworks to protect women’s
rights and gender equality
Contributed to gender equality
by: removing barriers to women’s
ownership and control of assets;
removing constraints for more and
better jobs, and enhancing women’s
voice and agency.
Women tend to be responsible
for procuring and providing food
in households and are the primary
work force engaged in subsistence
agriculture. They make up an average
of 43 percent of the agricultural
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workforce in developing countries.
Even so, the women experience barriers
in access to land and agricultural
inputs which affect the productivity
in these sectors. Ensured greater
female participation in natural resource
management, productive agricultural
activities, and natural disaster
responses. This enhanced the
effectiveness and sustainability in
reducing poverty, hunger, inequality
and the mitigation of climate change
effects and nature disruption.
Energy and materials.
The emphasis of industrial and
agricultural activity needs to shift
from increasing the inputs of carbon,
nitrogen, phosphorus and other
elements into the Earth system to
increasing the recycling of these elements
within the Earth system. The
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input of solar energy can far outstrip
the current fossil fuel-based energy
consumption. In addition, renewables
are already cost competitive
with fossil fuel-based electricity generation
in much of the world. As a
result, there should be no long-term
shortage of energy. The challenge
is to design and incentivize a waste
products based system for energy
generation and include it in a circular
economy. Domestic waste material
can also become useful in making
new products, and this way there is a
huge potential to increase material
recycling. Innovation and engineering
need to shift attention to achieve
material cycling and reuse.
Conclusion
We are at an unprecedented moment
in the history of humankind