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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

Report
Beyond Business as Usual

The Illuminating Hidden Harvests report showcases the contributions of small-scale fisheries to sustainable development
One of the final events marking the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture (IYAFA), 2022 was the hybrid launch of the report Illuminating Hidden Harvests: the contributions of small-scale fisheries to sustainable development (the IHH report) on March 16, 2023. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations...
2023 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)

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
India: Tap into the Potential

The limitations of India’s local self-government institutions can be overcome through capacity building and institutional strengthening
Community participation and the use of technology in disaster response as well as the role of local self-government institutions (LSGI) in fisheries management were the highlights of a two-day workshop on Sea Safety and Fisheries Management in the southern state of Kerala. It was organized jointly by ICSF and the...
India
2023 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)

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)

Newsletter
Roundup: News, events, briefings, and more...

news, events, briefings and more. Samudra Report No.89, August 2023
The Roundup includes recent publications, films added to our Documentation centre, meetings coming up, websites  which are important to small-scale fisheries, flashback of editorial from old issues of samudra report related to the theme  and Endquote from the world of literature related to fisheries. 
2023 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)

Newsletter article
Yemaya, ICSF's Newsletter on Gender and Fisheries

Special Issue on GAF8: From the Editor
We are happy to present a Special Issue on the recently-held 8th Global Conference on Gender in Aquaculture & Fisheries- Shaping the Future: Gender Justice for Sustainable Aquaculture and Fisheries (GAF8). Held over three days, from 21 – 23 November 2022 in the city of Kochi in the coastal state...
2023 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)

Newsletter article
GAF8: Shaping the future

Packed with meaningful discussions and exciting events, the 8th Global Conference on Gender in Aquaculture & Fisheries (GAF8) was a clarion call for gender justice for sustainable aquaculture and fisheries
In November, 2022, the city of Kochi in the southern Indian state of Kerala, marked a milestone in the history of gender and fisheries when it played host to the 8th Global Conference on Gender in Aquaculture & Fisheries- Shaping the Future: Gender Justice for Sustainable Aquaculture and Fisheries (GAF8)....
2023 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)

Newsletter article
Milestones: Closing the gender gap, how close are we?

The 17th edition of the Global Gender Gap Report 2023, published by the World Economic Forum, states that gender parity, globally, has recovered to pre-COVID 19 levels, with regional and national differences. Iceland remains the most gender-equal country; the European region surpassed North America in terms of highest gender parity,...
2023 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)

Newsletter article
Profile: Meet Purnima Meher Growing up in a fishing community

Purnima Meher today is a leading figure in the struggle for women fishworkers' rights
Purnima Meher is a staunch advocate of women fishworkers in the coastal state of Maharashtra in India. Purnima, who was born into a fishing community, is a postgraduate in Sociology from the prestigious SNDT University, Pune, and has worked as a social activist in her home state of Maharashtra for...
India
2023 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)

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
How I Build Soil in My Garden

In this video, How I Build Soil in My Garden, Nasira Habib explains how nature works to provide nutrients to plants. She also shares her experience of hot and cold composting. Additionally, she tells about the compost water extract.
Pakistan
2023 - Khoj – Society for People's Education

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
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