The Canadian Foodgrains Bank has released the fourth and final report in its Good Soils campaign, which since its implementation a year and a half ago, has been urging the Canadian government to strengthen its support for small-scale farmers.

The latest report, Equal Harvests--How Investing in Agricultural Development Can Empower Women, finds without a significant boost in financial support for women farmers, there is little hope of one day achieving zero hunger.

Canadian Foodgrains Bank Senior Policy Advisor Carol Thiessen authored all four reports in the series, and joined us Wednesday morning.

It's one thing to identify the challenges and hurdles women farmers have faced and are facing, but it's another to come up with solutions to address them.

Carol researched those options too, and after 830 will share the three key investments in agriculture that can empower women farmers globally.

Equal Harvests is the fourth and final report in a series from the Foodgrains Bank on the benefits of agricultural development.  Earlier reports made economic, nutrition and environmental cases for aid investment in agriculture in developing countries. The reports can be found here.

Kenyan small-scale farmer Christine Ndinda.