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Wanshika Kumar
17 December, 2020, 1:00 am
Women cut sugar cane at Vuqele in Tavua in July this year. A report says women farmers in Fiji earn 25 per cent less than their male counterparts. Picture: FILE
Women farmers in Fiji earn 25 per cent less than their male counterparts.
This, according to the Food and Agriculture (FAO) 2019 Gender Assessment Fiji, which is part of the 2020 Biennial Pacific Sustainable Development Report that was launched on December 9.
“A significant proportion of informal agricultural workers and farmers in the Pacific are women, where significant disparities exist.
“The FAO reports a significant gap in rural women’s and men’s farmers’ income in Fiji whereby informal work exacerbates vulnerability due to lack of safety nets or entitlements, including leave, insurance or pensions,” the report read.
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Approximately 93 per cent of businesses in Fiji have experienced a decline in revenue because of COVID-19.
This, according to a Pacific Trade Invest Network survey conducted this year involving 157 businesses across 16 Pacific Island countries, as highlighted in the 2020 Biennial Pacific Sustainable Development report.
The report indicated a need for dramatic actions to protect the economies of developing countries.
“Unless dramatic action is taken to protect the economies of developing countries and address social disruption, the COVID-19 pandemic could set the fight against poverty back by a decade and in some Pacific Island countries by as much as 30 years,” the report stated.