This 13th edition of the newsletter provides an opportunity for Dimitra and its partners to inform you about their activities over the last six months. It will also present other issues, such as the situation and rights of rural women producers, the right and access to land, food and sustainable agriculture, the impact of HIV/ AIDS, sexual violence, new information and communication technologies, and so on. Dimitra is continuing to work in the field of information and communication for rural populations – women in particular – and to develop its key principles: partnership, participation and networking. Increasingly Dimitra is acting as an interface and a convener: it facilitates access to and sharing of information; operates as a communication channel that contributes, through local support organizations, to connecting grassroots organizations to decision making bodies and vice versa; brings together the technical resources and expertise of different FAO services and other United Nations and development agencies; and, lastly, backs the organization of co-financed workshops.