The effect of the crisis in agriculture
on women’s livelihoods is significant.
Loss of viability of production, reduced
public investment, decelerating and
gendered wages, degradation of
resources has specifically affected
women who are responsible for
household food security. Aruna Kanchi
argues that women’s work related
burdens are likely to get intensified
because they are now responsible
for ensuring household food security
under adverse economic conditions
with little or no rights, authority,
access to or control over resources
required for enhancing production and
household income, and no authority
over what they produce.