Africa: UN Says Global Goals to Protect Nature Need Women to Succeed

London — With women gathering much of the world's firewood and water and active in farming, their input on protecting biodiversity is crucial, officials say

Women - who gather much of the world's wood and water, and carry out a large share of its farming - have too little say in how land is used, one key reason countries are failing to halt rapid losses of nature, environmental officials said on Tuesday.

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