Este material, además de compartir algunos elementos claves para comprender la propuesta de la soberanía alimentaria, sistematiza la visión y las experiencias que tienen sobre la soberanía alimentaria las organizaciones paraguayas que en la actualidad son integrantes y se encuentran activas en la Vía Campesina-Paraguay: la Coordinadora Nacional de Mujeres...

In the past 50 years, around 5,2 million Colombian farmers have been displaced from their lands, and about 8 million hectares of farmland were taken from their owners due to Colombia’s internal armed conflict. The war and neoliberal policies caused suffering, especially for women farmers. In order to overcome this...

In Latin America and the Caribbean, domestic workers make up 18% of the female labour force. Migrating from rural areas to work in the city, many maintain both rural and urban identities. With strong connections to their family’s farm on one hand, and playing a key role in buying and...

A bocage is a balanced environment, created to combine trees, crops and livestock. The concept of a bocage perimeter is created to solve the problems associated with extensive agriculture (overgrazing, erosion, fires etc.). A bocage perimeter is the result of land consolidation at the request of owners of a site....

Más alla de la creciente cobertura de la protección social entre los más pobres en América Latina y el Caribe, ésta no ha logrado alcanzar a las y los trabajadores de la agricultura familiar y en el ámbito rural en general. Es en el marco de estos esfuerzos, la FAO...

The ancient Egyptian civilisation, founded upon the agriculture and peasantry of the Nile Valley, is famous worldwide. Yet, today peasantry in Egypt often denotes poverty and there is a widening social divide between farmers and urban consumers. But over the past ten years, and particularly since the revolution in 2011,...

Nós, mulheres agricultoras e extrativistas que pesquisamos e produzimos em nossas roças, palmeirais, açaizais, rios e igarapés, nos juntamos para participar das importantes atividades do IX  Congresso Brasileiro de Agroecologia.  Agradecemos o diálogo com os pesquisadores das Universidades e outras instituições de pesquisa. “Eu já tinha conhecimento que as chuvas estavam se...

Esta guía está dirigida a organizaciones sociales, con el fin de fortalecer prácticas de comunicación a lo interno. Lo anterior permitirá trabajar de mejor manera para transformar más ampliamente nuestras realidades. Esta propuesta puede servir también a las personas involucradas en la planificación de objetivos y tareas a realizar en...

This publication is about the work of FAO’s Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (RAP) and its decades-long struggle to eradicate hunger throughout the region. For more than 60 years RAP has cooperated with member countries to help them produce enough safe and nutritious food for people living in...

This articule argues that tackling gender injustice and truly empowering women is not only a fundamental prerequisite for improving food and nutrition security. It needs to be seen as a goal in its own right. In Brief sets out a preliminary vision for gender-just food and nutrition security, which puts...

This paper explores aspects of promoting rural women’s leadership in producers’ organizations (POs). Despite the vast amount of work that women perform in the agriculture sector, their role remains largely unrecognized. The concerns and issues of women farmers are scarcely heard at the local, national and global levels. One reason...

This technical note proposes a framework for understanding the contribution of social protection to rural women’s empowerment, particularly how different social protection schemes contribute to this goal and what gaps need to be addressed by other rural services and livelihood interventions to achieve women’s economic empowerment in rural areas. The...

En este sitio se encuentra el programa, documentación, principales noticias, entre otros documentos relacionados con el Encuentro Nacional de Agroecología.

“If you have a healthy, living soil, you have healthy plants and healthy people. These three things are closely linked.” Irene Cardoso, a professor of soil science at the Federal University of Viçosa and a member of ILEIA’s board is passionate about soils and family farmers. In her role as...

Este caderno expressa o jeito próprio das mulheres fazer as coisas, de produzir conhecimentos juntas, a pedagogia feminista, partilhada com muitas mulheres catingueiras, pesquisadoras, experimentadorras e agricultoras. A publicação é o resultado de um esforço conjunto de sintetizar a riqueza do processo de vivências de 210 mulheres agricultoras e experimentadoras de...

Las mujeres rurales son responsables por más de la mitad de la producción de alimentos a nivel mundial, pero en América Latina y el Caribe continúan viviendo en una situación de desigualdad social y política, la cual se expresa fuertemente en su acceso y propiedad sobre la tierra, señaló hoy...

Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which: identify highly nutritious local food plants, explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way, detail the nutritional value of the plants and describe why human bodies require those nutrients. The resources created by FPS allows people to better...

The Iraqi government and United Nations agencies have earmarked $2.5 million this month to boost literacy and train women and girls in rural provinces to work in agriculture.

Cet article analyse le rôle de la mobilité géographique non permanente des jeunes ruraux dans le développement du territoire rural à partir de données d’enquêtes auprès de 80 jeunes (hommes et femmes) de la localité d’Ait Ali au Saïss au Maroc. Cette mobilité désigne tous les déplacements effectués par les jeunes,...

In a region where women still struggle to close the gender gap, Morocco stands out. In the past ten years it has enacted laws to eliminate discrimination against women and guarantee gender equality. But how do these laws make a difference in remote rural areas? It could be as simple...