Role of Rural Women in Achieving United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Through Mushroom Agri-Entrepreneurship

Abstract

Rural women have an important and crucial role in the progress and prosperity of households and thereby local and national economies through significant contributions every day from bringing an income to her household as an employed wage earner, to taking care of her family and elders, to creating jobs as an entrepreneur. Mushroom cultivation, an agro-based microenterprise, seems ideal for rural women folk to get a new livelihood and income generation option without much additional investments of money and time. The potential of promoting mushroom growing as an important vocation for women is significant in this context. United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) such as SDG 1 (No Poverty), SDG 2 (Zero Hunger), SDG 3 (Good Health and Well-Being), SDG 5 (Gender Equality), SDG 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth), SDG 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities), SDG 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production), SDG 13 (Climate Action), SDG 14 (Life Below Water), and SDG 15 (Life on Land) can be achieved.