Announcement: Join The Roundtable Discussion on Empowering ASEAN Women in Agriculture – April 7, 2021 3:00 PM (GMT+8)

Date released: March 25, 2021


The ASEAN Secretariat, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP) through its sub-regional office for Southeast Asia, Grow Asia, the Institute for Social Entrepreneurship in Asia (ISEA) and Oxfam invite you to a roundtable Dialogue on Empowering ASEAN Women in Agriculture on April 7, Wednesday, 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM (GMT+8) via Zoom.

To register, go to https://lnkd.in/g6pJFWX or scan the QR code in the poster.

Agriculture is a key sector in ASEAN, accounting for a substantial share in the region’s GDP and employing an important segment of the workforce. Statistics show that as many as 64 percent of employed women in Lao PDR are engaged in agriculture, 39 per cent in Vietnam, and 34 per cent in Cambodia. In other member states, Thailand’s one third of GDP is attributed to agriculture, more than 30 per cent in Indonesia and about 8 per cent in the Philippines. There has been a shift to manufacturing and other off-farm service sectors in several of these countries, but a significant part of the population remains dependent on agriculture. While agriculture is at varying stages of development, there are remarkable similarities in the constraints faced by women in the agriculture sector.

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented challenges for the agricultural sector highly impacting women stakeholders. The pandemic threatens to not only stagnate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals but has the potential to reverse the gains made in recent years, thus jeopardizing our shared promise to ‘leave no one behind’.   

This roundtable will explore the challenges and promote solutions in the agriculture sector in ASEAN, with focus on women’s economic empowerment and gender equality. 

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