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<p>DFID’s 2017 Economic Development Strategy commits to tackling gender discrimination
and to delivering safer, more secure and higher-return work for women, building on
the 2015 UK commitment made through our G7 membership to include gender objectives
in at least 50% of agriculture and food security programmes. A 2018 review of DFID’s
commercial agriculture programmes found that 31 of DFID’s 65 commercial agriculture
programmes aimed to increase the returns received by women working in agriculture.</p><p>
</p><p>The Department also assists the development of standards that help smallholder
farmers reach a decent standard of living: for example, by providing £3.7 million
in assistance to the International Social and Environmental Accreditation and Labelling
Alliance (ISEAL Alliance) which supports systems such as Fairtrade. DFID is also a
founding member of the Living Income Community of Practice.</p><p> </p><p>DFID’s 2019
review of commercial agriculture programmes finds that since 2007, 22 million smallholders
have benefitted from DFIDs current commercial agriculture programming (3.4 million
of them women) with 4.7 million of these (1.1 million women) having benefited financially.</p>
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