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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

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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