"The small amount that (Natheer) used to send while he was an immigrant, hardly meets our daily basic need but was not sufficient, because work in the village is difficult and seasonal. The war robbed our husbands' livelihood in their home cities, and the misery reached us in the countryside";...

El presente estudio “La protección de los derechos de las mujeres rurales en América Latina. Estado actual de la legislación y políticas existentes en el contexto post-pandemia COVID-19” (en adelante, el Estudio) busca contribuir al empoderamiento de las mujeres rurales como dimensión estratégica para la recuperación en el contexto post-pandemia y,...

Bangladeshi women are traditionally involved in various agricultural activities but most of their efforts remain unnoticed. To emphasize the significance of women's role in agricultural production, this paper highlights the major activities performed by Bangladeshi women in diverse agricultural production based on published literature. It was observed that Bangladeshi women...

The role played by women in agriculture is decisive. The FAO estimates that they contribute half of the world’s food production1 . They are often responsible for the preparation of the land, watering, harvesting, storage, processing, and packaging, as well as for the supply of water and the administrative and...

La presente Nota Jurídica se basa en la publicación “La protección de los derechos de las mujeres rurales en América Latina y el Caribe”, realizada por la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO) y la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID)...

The leader of the Community Managed Natural Farming (CMNF) programme Vijay Kumar explains the Social Capital side of the story, and how women’s groups were a central part of the success of CMNF, now recognised worldwide as a model of agricultural transformation. The CMNF initiative has mobilised over a million...

This project aimed to understand the impact of the recommendations of the Scottish Government’s Women in Agriculture Taskforce (Scottish Government, 2019), and the influence of other initiatives that support ‘women in agriculture’, on women’s experiences working on farms and in the agricultural industry in Scotland. This project involved individuals originally...

The importance of gender-responsive research in agriculture is now widely accepted, as demonstrated by the call for capacity building targeted at agricultural researchers in the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) and at other agricultural research organizations (CGIAR 2013; CGIARIEA 2017). There is a need to clarify the competency...

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...

Women are the majority of the world’s poor livestock keepers (FAO 2011). Since women are generally responsible for putting food on the table and they typically spend a higher proportion of their income on food compared to men, enhancing women’s control over livestock and their products can improve household nutrition...

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...

In recent times, there has been an increasing commercialization of the shea butter industry, due to the growing demand for shea butter by pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries (ADROIT Market Research 2019; GEPA 2019). In northern Ghana, several interventions have targeted poverty among rural women by focusing on the shea butter...

The increased participation of women in the labor market and the persistence of social expectations governing gender roles have sharpened the focus on the distribution of household and care work in social and labor policy debates.1 The unequal division of household and care work and the attempts by women to...

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 2020 report on the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the Asia and Pacific region, provides an update on progress towards the 2030 targets (SDGs and WHA) at the regional and country level. Selected indicators look at undernourishment, food insecurity, childhood stunting, wasting and overweight, adult overweight, child...

En este documento se presentan medidas implementadas por los Gobiernos de América Latina y el Caribe para atender la situación de las mujeres durante la pandemia por COVID-19. La información comenzó a recopilarse a muy pocos días de declarada la pandemia a nivel mundial. En el marco de la reunión...

Em meio a uma profunda crise ampliada pela COVID-19 e com o retorno do Brasil ao mapa da fome, para qualquer região que você olhe há movimentos populares do campo e da cidade criando redes de solidariedade e de comercialização para garantir comida de verdade na mesa dos brasileiros. Se...

El 15 de agosto de 2021, la Federación Agraria Argentinaa (FAA) cumplió 109 años de vida. En la semana del aniversario, elaboró, publicó y difundió a través de sus redes y medios de comunicación, informes, artículos de opinión (escritos por los integrantes del Consejo Directivo Central de la entidad y...

Marilyn Gede has spent the last six decades surrounded by the South Pacific, but she had never seen the wonders of what lay underwater. She lives in a community that is responsible for managing the Arnavon Islands, the Solomon Island’s first national park. These four tiny islands are biodiversity hotspots,...

"Mujeres con derecho a la tierra y el territorio" es una serie de 16 capítulos en español y quechua, que busca empoderar a las mujeres indígenas en el ejercicio de sus derechos. Es una producción de la Asociación Servicios Educativos Rurales - SER, con el apoyo de Pan para el...