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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
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.
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2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Case study
How the sweet sound of buzzing bees changed the tune of one Uzbek woman’s life
Modern equipment and training ensure traditional livelihoods can provide for rural households
Morning breaks in the village Durmon, a quiet hamlet in the Bukhara region of southern Uzbekistan. There is no bustle of a big city. The only sounds are of chirping of birds and the humming of peaceful nature.
This is the setting for an ordinary day in the life of Gulhayo...
Uzbekistan
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Blog article
CSAs as spaces of care and self-exploitation: a feminist perspective from the UK
I have worked in Community Supported Agriculture for the last 15 years in the UK. Over the last year, I have combined this activity with CAWR’s MSc Programme in Agroecology, Water and Food Sovereignty. The gender module has allowed me to piece together new narratives through which to explore and contextualise...
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2023
Policy brief/paper
Can innovations in agri-food systems deliver gender equity and resilience?
Agri-food systems constitute a huge proportion of global jobs and economies, but are failing to provide healthy diets, equitable livelihoods and sustainable practices. Women in rural areas are highly prominent in the sector and most vulnerable to climate impacts.
Co-designing and bundling innovations could offer significant opportunities to achieve better outcomes....
2023 - International Institute for Environment and Development
Practices
GOOD PRACTICES: A Digital Tool for Empowering Women Farmers
Women constitute a substantial proportion of the agricultural workforce; yet they quite often face significant barriers to accessing information, resources and technology that could improve their farming practices and enhance productivity and farm income. This good practice note examine the challenges that women farmers face, as well as how innovative...
2023 - Agricultural Extension in South Asia
Blog article
The Innovation Award for Women Farmers
This competition was developed by Copa-Cogeca to shed a light on the hundreds of innovative projects conducted every year all over Europe by Women farmers. In 2023 it will particularly showcase the innovative and novel solutions implemented by women that are supporting all the three pillars of sustainability: economic, environmental...
European Union
2023 - Copa&Cogeca
Blog article
FAO initiative validates new advocacy strategy to boost women’s capacities to scale up gender-responsive policy making
A new advocacy strategy to scale up dryland women’s participation in climate change policy discussions was officially validated by WeCaN members at the initiative’s first Global Gathering today.
WeCaN is an FAO platform for women’s empowerment in dryland forests and agrosilvopastoral areas. It is a South-South knowledge sharing space for women to connect,...
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Working paper
Gender assessment study for improved fruit tree and Macadamia nuts value chains in Mzimba and Kasungu districts of Malawi
The growing national and export markets for improved fruit (including mango) and macadamia nuts in Malawi could offer promising opportunities for smallholder farmers if they are better integrated (with appropriate resources and training) within their respective value chains. While the macadamia value chain is highly structured, export oriented and dominated...
Malawi
2023 - CIFOR-ICRAF
Report
La situación de las mujeres en los sistemas agroalimentarios
PANORAMA GENERAL
Los sistemas agroalimentarios, además de ser una importante fuente de empleo para las mujeres en el mundo, en muchos países constituyen una fuente de sustento más importante para estas que para los hombres. Así pues, empoderar a las mujeres y cerrar la brecha de género en los sistemas agroalimentarios mejora...
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Event
Situación de la mujer en los sistemas agroalimentarios
FAO ha presentado un reporte global sobre la situación de las mujeres en los sistemas agroalimentarios, el cual plantea revisa y analiza las oportunidades y limitaciones de las mujeres en los procesos económicos y sociales, al mismo tiempo que hace un balance y evalúa el progreso realizado para cerrar una...
2023 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Blog article
Research priorities to strengthen women's roles in climate-resilient agriculture in the middle east and north Africa
This work was part of the CGIAR Gender Platform and the CGIAR Initiative on Fragility to Resilience in Central and West Asia and North Africa.
A groundbreaking new research strategy identifies priorities to advance gender equality in agriculture in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region for adapting and building resilience to climate change.
The newly...
2023 - ICARDA Communication Team
Video
Documentary film of the Promote & Enhance Resilience of Local Urban Food System &Food Sovereignty
The documentary film about the steadfastness of Palestinian women farmers in Gaza/Palestine reflects the continued struggle of urban and peri-urban women agripreneurs to restore food sovereignty and face challenges. These activities of the Urban Women Agripreneurs Forum (UWAF) come as an extension of the partnership project between the Gaza Urban...
Gaza Strip
2023 - Gaza Urban & Peri-urban Agriculture Platform GUPAP
Newsletter
The Family Farming Knowledge Platform (FFKP) Monthly Digest (April 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.
2023 - Family Farming Knowledge Platform FFKP
E-learning
Minimum dietary diversity for women
This course has been designed to explain how to use the Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women (MDD-W) indicator, with a view to contributing to improved diets among nutritionally vulnerable women of reproductive age.
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Book
Apostar por la agricultura para lograr una diversificación productiva
Sin lugar a duda, la agricultura juega un papel importante en el desarrollo económico y social de los países andinos por su importancia socioeconómica, en la seguridad alimentaria y por su potencial para contribuir a un crecimiento más inclusivo y sostenible. Una actividad milenaria que ha moldeado la forma de...
2023 - Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID)
Website
Joint Programme on Gender Transformative Approaches for Food Security and Nutrition
Conventional gender-sensitive methodologies that tend to focus on treating the symptoms of gender discrimination, such as women’s unequal access to resources and benefits, without addressing the structural determinants of gender inequality, have repeatedly failed to achieve long-standing and transformative impacts.
Discriminatory gender norms and roles, unequal power relations and social structures...
2023 - FAO, IFAD, WFP. EU
Guidelines
Guía básica de aprendizaje: Camino hacia la igualdad de género en tiempos de cambio climático
Guía básica de aprendizaje: Camino hacia la igualdad de género en tiempos de cambio climático, es una guía para promover prácticas de igualdad y equidad de género en la implementación de módulos forestales, agroforestales y silvopastoriles que forman parte del proyecto "Resiliencia climática en los ecosistemas agrícolas de Cuba" (IRES)....
Cuba
2023 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
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