With Jamaican women having known to have long stood shoulder to shoulder with their male counterparts as ‘players’ in the country’s agricultural sector, concerns are being expressed over what is felt to be a condition of gender prejudice that underlines unequal access to resources necessary for them to match their male counterparts in terms of growth in the sector. A report in the Wednesday November 8 issue of the Jamaica Observer alluded to women farmers using the occasion of a forum titled, ‘The Roots and Tubers National Dialogue’, hosted by the World University Service of Canada (WUSC) Caribbean, under the Sustainable Agriculture in the Caribbean (SAC) Project to voice concerns over what they regard as unequal access to resources necessary for them to match their male counterparts in terms of their accomplishments in the farming sector. The newspaper reported that, in the course of the forum, women farmers were unequivocal in their feelings of being “underserved in the farming industry, particularly when it comes to accessing agricultural lands and resources.”
