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The Resources section holds archived publications and multimedia materials related to family farming general issues.

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Book
Good Gardening and Growing Root and Grain Crops in Vietnam - Vietnamese

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...
Viet Nam
2023

Book
Leafy Greens and Vegetables of Vietnam - Vietnamese

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...
Viet Nam
2023

Article
Niyat Project: An attempt of boosting food security in Northern Argentina through Agroecology

Indigenous communities continue to face marginalization and exclusion from vital resources and opportunities, leading to alarming rates of poverty and malnutrition, particularly among women and young people. In some part of the world, they often live in conditions of high vulnerability, high food insecurity and lack of access to human...
Argentina
2023 - Slow Food

Report
The status of women in agrifood systems

The status of women in agrifood systems report uses extensive new data and analyses to provide a comprehensive picture of women’s participation, benefits, and challenges they face working in agrifood systems globally. The report shows how increasing women’s empowerment and gender equality in agrifood systems enhances women’s well-being and the...
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Article
L’accès collectif au foncier irrigué à Ross Béthio, Sénégal : entre inégalités de genre et dynamiques de pouvoir entre femmes

Cet article a pour objectif d’évaluer l’efficacité de l’accès collectif à la terre pour améliorer les droits fonciers des femmes dans un contexte d’agriculture irriguée dans le delta du fleuve Sénégal. L’expérience des périmètres irrigués villageois aménagés pour les femmes des groupements de l’Union des femmes productrices de Ross Béthio,...
Senegal
2023

Case study
Freekeh: The ancient dish firing up rural women’s futures in Lebanon

Green wheat is turning women at the heart of the Bekaa Valley into entrepreneurs
There is a special and nutritious cereal food born from the fire. Some call it “farik” or “frik”, but its true name is freekeh, which comes from the Arabic word farak: “to rub”. Norma Kozah Rahmeh and her twin daughters, like other women growers in Lebanon’s Bekaa valley, harvest this durum wheat before...
Lebanon
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Report
Gender, water and agriculture

Gender inequality in Palestine has contributed to the marginalization of women from access and control over available resources including water. This inequality has been entrenched through legal, political and social systems. Palestine’s Gender-Responsive Water Assessment was carried out in the West Bank in 2021 by the Food and Agricultural Organization...
Palestine
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Case study
Contract-Based Agriculture Production

A Case Study of Organic Rice Production in Cambodia
Objectives of the Study General Objective. The case study aims to contribute to the enhancement of the exchange of knowledge and best practices on family farming and agroecology relevant initiatives and institutional context and contribute to the implementation of the Programme Priority Areas (PPA) BP1: Innovation for sustainable agriculture production...
Cambodia
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Case study
Rural women Projects brochure

This Projects Brochure highlights examples of CAP-funded projects led by women and initiatives that are advancing gender equality in rural areas. In line with the European Commission’s 2020-2025 Gender Equality Strategy, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) now includes a Specific Objective aimed at enhancing the position of women in farming and...
Czechia - Estonia - France - Romania - Slovenia - Spain - Sweden
2023 - EU CAP Network

Newsletter
Yemaya Newsletter March 2023 ISSUE - 66

The 8th Global Conference on Gender in Aquaculture and Fisheries held in India in November 2022 raised several important issues for gender-just and sustainable fisheries and aquaculture. A running theme in the discussions was the importance of both strengthening the capacity of women fish workers to organize, and developing new...
2023 - the International Collective in Support of Fishworkers Trust

Newsletter
Family Farming Knowledge Platform (FFKP) Monthly Digest July 2023

The Family Farming Knowledge Platform (FFKP) Monthly Digest showcases the latest contents uploaded in the FFKP to provide its readers with relevant and up to date information on family farming main themes such as agroecology, smallscale fisheries, pastoralism, indigenous people, and more. For more documents, feel free to search in the...
2023 - FAO

Book
Quem são elas: histórias e relatos sobre mulheres que constroem a agricultura e a pesca capixaba

No universo da agricultura e pesca familiares, diversas atividades são realizadas até que o alimento chegue à mesa do consumidor. Dentro desse conjunto de atividades, as que são realizadas pelas mulheres, que em geral irão exigir menos contato com o consumidor final, são pouco reconhecidas e valorizadas. Na maioria das vezes,...
Brazil
2023

Report
Montréal Declaration on Small-Scale Women Farmers for Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Use

Representatives of small-scale farmers belonging to Indigenous Peoples and local communities, global indigenous networks, national and international civil society and research organisations, and Community Foundations from Asia, Africa and South America, on the occasion of the 15th Conference of the Parties of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, came together...
2023 - International Institute for Environment and Development IIED

Blog article
Mujeres algodoneras de América Latina comparten experiencias y desafíos en evento virtual y dialogan sobre acciones conjuntas en la región

La actividad fue promovida por la Red Latinoamericana de Mujeres Algodoneras y el proyecto regional +Algodón.
Mujeres del sector algodonero de países de Latinoamérica se reunieron el 24 de marzo para un evento virtual donde compartieron compartir experiencias y dialogaron sobre los retos y brechas que aun enfrentan en la cadena algodonera en la región. El webinar regional Mujeres del Algodón: Empoderamiento Económico para Cadenas de Valor con...
2023 - Programa de Cooperación Internacional Brasil-FAO

Event
Mujeres Algodoneras: empoderamiento económico para cadenas de valor con enfoque de género

La agenda internacional al desarrollo, por medio de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS), expresa la importancia de avanzar hacia la igualdad de género (ODS 5) y el poner fin a todas las formas de discriminación contra mujeres y niñas, garantizando de tal forma el ejercicio de los derechos humanos...
2023 - Programa de Cooperación Internacional Brasil-FAO

Blog article
The WRF and the forest and farm facility promote the catalytic role of cooperativism in empowering rural women

Through the “Women and cooperativism” project, led by the WRF together with six regional organizations, 23 successful experiences were identified and analyzed, which served as the basis for developing a cycle of exchanges and material outlining recommendations and lessons learned from women in cooperatives in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. As...
2023 - WRF

Case study
7 success factors to empowering rural women through ICTs

Using technology to transform lives
The digital revolution has changed the way we work, access information and connect with each other. It offers opportunities to those who can use the new technologies, but also presents new challenges for those who are left behind. Often referred to collectively as Information and Communications Technologies or ICTs, these technologies...
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Blog article
Climate-resilient women: Seaweed farmers in the Philippines feed families and futures

Despite the ravages of storms, seaweed farming is transforming the lives of Filipino families in traditionally male-dominated fishing communities, turning women into family breadwinners who are paying for their children to go to college. The Cherish Fisherfolk Cooperative of 120 seaweed farmers in the Palawan village of Balintang is named after...
Philippines
2023

Newsletter
Shedding New Light

The 2023 Illuminating Hidden Harvests Report is arguably the most concerted and comprehensive research effort so far to focus exclusively on small-scale fisheries but it is not enough. Jointly produced by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Duke University and WorldFish, the 2023 Illuminating Hidden Harvests (IHH)...
2023 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)

Newsletter
Family Farming Knowledge Platform (FFKP) Monthly Digest October 2023

The Family Farming Knowledge Platform (FFKP) Monthly Digest showcases the latest contents uploaded in the FFKP to provide its readers with relevant and up to date information on family farming main themes such as agroecology, smallscale fisheries, pastoralism, indigenous people, and more. For more documents, feel free to search in the...
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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