The essay covers the subject of pest management in the developing world with focus on Africa. A small study was conducted in the Babati district in Tanzania. The division of labour is usually quite gender specific. Men have the main responsibility for cash crops while women often are responsible for the families food crops as well as household work and taking care of the children. Pest management often also falls on their lot. Yet women get very little information and education as well as gain access to important resources that could lighten their work load. Farmers generally use chemical pesticides as their main method. In the larger cash crops fields especially, farmers feel that it is too difficult to use other methods with exception for crop rotation and in some cases intercropping. In the smaller plots for family use it was however more common that other methods were used. However chemical pesticides were still used if they could be afforded. Tasks being so gender specific women have different needs than men but they are rarely asked what they need and how they perceive things. There seems to be a lot of bias and great misconceptions when it comes to the importance of women in agriculture.