The first International Day of Rural Women was recognised on the15th October, 2008. Its establishment is to recognise
“the critical role and contribution of rural women, including indigenous women, in enhancing agricultural and rural development, improving food security and eradicating rural poverty.”

Rural women, the majority of whom rely on natural resources and agriculture for sustainability, cover the quarter of the world's demographic population. In developing countries such as most of the countries in Africa, rural women are approximately 43% of the agricultural labour force, and produce, process and prepare much of the farm produce available, thereby directly giving them responsibility for farm produce security. Bearing in mind that 76% of the extreme poor dwell in rural areas, enhancing them properly would ameliorate the more world hunger and poverty, and make rural women critical for the success of the novel Sustainable Development agenda for 2030. "The empowerment of rural women and girls is essential to building a prosperous, equitable and peaceful future for all on a healthy planet."
— UN Secretary-General, António Guterres

Through the founding of the IDRW the immense efforts of women and girls around the globe have been recognized as ones who are directly responsible for the betterment of the lives of all and sundry global-wise. Let's speak of the food production most importantly and commonly: who would survive fine to the extent of being comfortable enough to dress corporate in corporate settings and operate without foods of some sort being in the belly to energise? Let's speak of helping to keep the world to see another day, these gender sort are basically responsible for doing that through various green plantations, both small and big, which help to make our atmosphere to become stronger as some other genders and the same gender are busy making the same grow weaker. Let's speak of maintaining the production of different forms of finished goods, with them not being idle, the system would crumpled and there would be problems as demands will kill supply. These things and more are what the women in those rustic settings, covered up in tattered rags overnight, with falling rafters as their ceilings, with different sorts of diseases growing within and outside of them do in order to make things balance for all in life. These women of sort this organization has been founded to look for and help to experience betterment when it comes to health care services, education on different sectors to improve their working skills and boost production, finance, and so forth.

Everyone wants to come to the urban centre to enjoy its sophistication. On getting there they tend to loose too much and forget the rural which supply the basics of what they depend on as they enjoy their independence there. Apart from the facts that it had to be the choice of majority of them to stay behind, yet there should be a level of recommendation given them for staying and not just staying back, but staying to see that production keeps on happening to fill the system proper. Awareness may be absence of their works for the sake of all and sundry. Education on their importance might make them to want do do more. There is where this establishment comes in to aid actively. "Small holder agriculture produces nearly 80 per cent of food in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa and supports the livelihoods of some 2.5 billion people. Women farmers may be as productive and enterprising as their male counterparts, but are less able to access land, credit, agricultural inputs, markets and high-value agrifood chains and obtain lower prices for their crops."

However, "Despite developments on some fronts, gender inequalities remain pervasive in every dimension of sustainable growth; and in many areas, progress is too slow to achieve the SDGs by 2030.
Delivering on the gender equality commitments of the 2030 Agenda stands or falls by the allocation of sufficient resources for their achievement and concerted action by governments and all stakeholders. Essential services on which millions of rural women and girls depend—health, education, childcare, shelters—are chronically underfunded or simply unavailable. Where they exist, they are often the first to be hit by austerity measures, which are once again on the rise. In 2018 alone, 124 countries are expected to be cutting their budgets, eroding social protection measures and essential services on which so many rural women and girls depend. This is not inevitable. In virtually all countries, there is scope for raising or reallocating resources to strengthen public services that are essential for women and girls. It is a matter of political will and of using all the available policy tools. The cost of inaction is simply too high."
-JODEKSS
Source: http://widestforum.com/essays/international-day-of-rural-women-all-you-need-to-know-about-the-2018-edition/msg15993/#msg15993