If there is no increase in productive resources, increasing production of a first good entails decreasing production of a second, because resources must be transferred to the first and away from the second.
Compared to interventions designed to increase investment in human capital, only a minority of interventions or policy changes increasing female farmers' access to productive resources have been rigorously evaluated.
We already know that if women had equal access to productive resources, they could increase their yields and feed more hungry people in the world.
This paper critically reviews some recent attempts to increase poor female farmers' access to, and control of, productive resources, focusing on Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
Similar economic forces lie behind ultrasociality in social insects and humans increased productivity from the division of labor, increasing returns to scale, and the exploitation of stocks of productive resources.
As the report states: "The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) estimates that if women had access to the same productive resources as men better seeds, fertilisers and fungicides they could increase their yield by 20% to 30%.
Theoretically, when the demand for a commodity is great, prices rise, making it profitable for producers to increase the supply; as supply approximates demand, prices tend to fall until producers divert productive resources to other uses (see supply and demand).
If women had the same access to productive resources ( livestock, land, labor, education, financial services and technology) they could increase yields on their farms by 20-30 percent.
It does this primarily by coordinating the decisions of consumers, producers, and owners of productive resources.
Understands that scarcity of productive resources requires choices that generate opportunity costs.
