Posts on the Topic "women"
FAO shares the "7 success factors to empowering rural women through ICTs"
08/03/2018
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations joins the rest of the world in celebrating the International Women's Day 2018. In Rome FAO, joins other Rome Based Agencies (RBAs) on a joint event hosted by IFAD under the theme, " Linked-in: empowering rural women and girls through media...
New Publication : - GENDER AND ICTs : Mainstreaming gender in the use of ICTs for agriculture and rural development
08/03/2018
In celebrating the "International Women's Day' (IWD 2018) FAO, IFAD and WFP have organized this year’s annual event on how media and ICT can empower rural women and girls to transform their lives. During this day's celebrations, a new publication, " GENDER AND ICTs : Mainstreaming gender in the use...
International Women’s Day 2018 (#IWD2018) focuses on ICTs in Agriculture
08/03/2018
To mark International Women’s Day 2018 (#IWD2018), FAO, IFAD and WFP are organizing an event that will focus on how media and ICTs can empower rural women and girls to transform their lives. The empowerment of rural women and girls is a central element in the drive to eradicate poverty and hunger...
Farming in a liquidity crisis - How AgriFin Mobile have assisted smallholder farmers
06/03/2018
January 2018, Mutasa, Zimbabwe Linda Mungira, a mother of four children and smallholder farmer in Mutasa, a district in eastern Zimbabwe, walks slowly towards her chicken coup at the edge of her residence next to her toilet facility on her modest rural homestead. She takes with her a woven basket to...
Using CATI to collect data on nutrition indicators
25/02/2018
mVAM at the World Food Programme and World Agroforestry Centre published a case study where Computer-Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI) was used in Kenya to collect data on nutrition indicators. In most projects in the field, it is expensive to collect data in some cases in remote areas or...
How farmers are making the most of digital technologies in East Africa?
20/02/2018
CTA has published four success stories from East Africa that shows how ICTs are enabling farmers to access information which allows them to improve their farming practices. The stories detail how women’s lives are transformed, how ICTs have tapped into the unbanked, and how they are facilitating...08/ 03
2018
International Women’s Day
Italy 08/03/2018
To mark the 2018 International Women’s Day (IWD 2018) FAO, IFAD and WFP will organize this year’s annual event on how media and ICT can empower rural women and girls to transform their lives, as a central element in the efforts to eliminate poverty and hunger, and build inclusive and sustainable rural societies.
International Day of Women and Girls in Science : Reflections from women in Ag
12/02/2018
11 February was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly (resolution A/RES/70/212) as the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, to achieve full and equal acceess to and participation in science for women and girls. Within agriculture, CIMMYT has chosen to celebrate this day by...
Women, agriculture and ICTs
09/01/2018
Quick Read Gender imbalance exists with women and girls most affected Technology, ICTs in particular, promise to leverage farming practices Examples of projects where ICTs have been used by women in agriculture In most developing country due to rural urban migration and other reasons, agriculture is...