update on the sunset elementary school and ap giannini middle school safe routes to school project. >> by way of background in may of 2011, the authority allocated $779,000 for air quality improvement funds. the project included improvements in the avenue between 35th and 41st ave. this stretch in the sunset district included a branch library and sunset elementary. i will not go through the conceptual project of the design, but there is an up-to- date design in the project and i want to say that the project now includes a new bike facility from 20th avenue to the great highway. it is an entirely new bicycle facility. it goes across the school area as well. in june of 2011, the authority board allocated designed funds for portions of the project. consistent with deadlines in federal funds, the $579,000, there is a deadline by which assets mta had to submit design packages to local assistance and federal obligations. that deadline was missed in we are currently working with mta to develop a recovery plan as presented in the memorandum of this year. i want to be clear about the deadlines

agriculture is a power giannini for development as we have seen in the remarkable rise of china and india. in several economies, women comprise nearly half of the agriculture labor force. they sustain every link in the agricultural chain. they plant the seeds, care for the livestock, harvest the crops, sell them at markets, they store thed food, and then they prepare it for consumption. as for the role of women in agriculture nowadays, despite their presence in all of these kinds of jobs, they have less to show for all of their work. women farmers are up to 30% less productive than male farmers. and that is not because they are working less or less committed. it's because women farmers have access to fewer resources. they have less fertilizer, fewer tools, poorer quality seed and less access to training or to land. and they have much less time to farm because they also have to do most of the household work. when that resource gap is closed and resources are allocated equally, and better yet, efficiently, women and men are equally productive in agriculture. and that has positive benefits.