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Contents Introduction The Gender Profile of small holder Rural Agriculture Households in Tanzania The list of Gender indicators The snapshot of the Gender Profile in Tanzania The DATA Collection Tools and improvements made for the 2007/08 Agriculture Sample Census Questionnaire Conclusion and Recommendations 1. Introduction In most developing countries there has been an increasing trend towards what is been termed as the feminization of agriculture. As mens participation in agriculture declines, the role of women in agricultural production becomes more dominant. Involvements in high risk activities like mining, War, fishing, hunting, burglary, death from HIV/AIDS have reduced rural male populations. migration of men from rural areas to towns and cities, in their own countries or abroad, in search of paid employment. On the other hand; the division of labour and responsibilities between sexes in rural agrarian communities has been set by various cultural, religious and sometimes political norms. one of the sexes being disadvantaged in relation to access to natural resources, rural infrastructure, education, health and other services. It is often women who are more disadvantaged than men Social relations i.e. how men and women are defined in the given context, in their normative roles, duties and responsibilities; Activities i.e. the division of labour in both productive and reproductive work within the household and the community; Access and control over resources, services, institutions of decision making and networks of power and authority; and Needs, the distinct needs of men and women, both practical and strategic needs. Gender analysis assumes that men and women differ in the goods and services they produce and in their degree of access to and control of resources. The total number of agriculture households increased from 4,396,406 in 1997/1998 to 4,805,314 in 2002/2003, an increase of 8.5 percent over a 4 year period. There has been a larger incre