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International Institute for Environment and Development IIED - Climate change newsletter August 2023
IIED's climate change newsletter is sent out every two months to keep you updated on our research to shape development policy and practice for climate resilience, equitable global governance and locally led adaptation to climate change.In this edition we have an interview with the chair of the LDC Group, recent...
2023 - International Institute for Environment and Development IIED
Informe
Gender, water and agriculture
The economic contribution of women to agricultural and irrigation activities and to the livelihoods, well-being and food security of families and communities is often unrecognized, invisible and mostly undervalued. Moreover, the role of women in fetching, preserving and managing productive and non-productive water often goes unrecognized and understudied. This assessment...
Egypt
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Artículo de blog
Las mujeres del manglar
En Costa Rica, un grupo de mujeres protege y maneja la riqueza de los manglares para sostener a sus familias y proteger la biodiversidad. En este contexto, la FAO, junto al Gobierno de Costa Rica y Coope Sol i Dar, las capacitaron en temáticas como empleo decente, gobernanza responsable de...
Costa Rica
2023 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Libro
Impacto das mudanças climáticas na agricultura familiar das regiões Norte e Nordeste do Brasil
O setor agropecuário é um dos que sofrem os maiores impactos negativos resultantes das mudanças do clima. A principal conclusão das pesquisas é que as secas, a maior variabilidade da precipitação, a elevação das temperaturas médias e os extremos de calor, bem como as grandes concentrações atmosféricas de gás carbônico,...
Brazil
2023 - Universidade Federal de Viçosa (UFV)
Artículo de blog
Policy Insight publications: CAP support for agroforestry, gender equality and younger generations
Gender equality continues to be an important strategic objective for all European policies. Hence the new Policy Insight on Enhancing gender equality in EU agri-food systems highlights how the CAP is purposely designed to support actions and targets that benefit all EU citizens. It confirms the CAP’s strategic emphasis on...
European Union
2023 - EU CAP Network
Artículo de blog
Women produce up to 80% of food in developing countries
Research by the Food and Agriculture Association found women are essential to small-scale agriculture, farm labour and day-to-day family subsistence.
Slow Food, a worldwide organisation promoting traditional cooking, is celebrating women who grow food and preserve food cultures in their daily lives. According to the FAO, women produce between 60 and...
2023 - Slowfood
Artículo de blog
Equal Opportunities Aren’t Enough! We Need Gender Equity
Women are vital actors in the agricultural sector – making up as much as 80% of the workforce in some parts of the world – yet their work is often not valued or recognised in the way men’s work might be. Agriculture is often still perceived as a man’s business, removing women from...
2023 - IFOAM Organics International
Directrices
Gender mainstreaming in climate investments in the agriculture, forestry and other land use sector in Europe and Central Asia
Regional resource guide
This resource guide aims to support decision-makers, development practitioners, trainers and civil society organizations representing both farmers and rural women in designing and implementing climate investment projects and programmes in the Europe and Central Asia Region. It features a practical conceptual framework to enhance gender mainstreaming in climate investment programming...
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Estudio de caso
Rural women in Haiti invest in themselves
Village savings and loan associations help Haitian women build their businesses and futures
The way Yolande Saint Louis describes herself is someone who likes to help others, offering her services to whomever is in need of them. When other women ask how she manages, she says she loves her community of Mapou in southeast Haiti, and she doesn’t want to live elsewhere. That’s...
Haiti
2023 - FAO
Artículo de blog
Meet Mary an exemplary Kenyan coffee farmer
Mary Wairimu Oloo, who lives in Kenya’s Trans Nzoia County, moved back to her family’s coffee farm after retiring from a government role. Since then she has been diligently improving productivity on the farm, diversifying her income and helping others along the way.
Mary Wairimu Oloo is not just a wife...
Kenya
2023 - Solidaridad Network
Sitio web
FAO - Gender
We cannot end hunger and poverty without empowering both men and women in agrifood systems.
Today, agriculture and food systems face an unprecedented array of challenges. We must feed a growing global population in a context of emerging and persisting crises - economic, energy, environmental, food and social. These include conflicts,...
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Documento/nota de orientación
Recomendaciones de políticas públicas para el desarrollo sostenible de la pesca y la acuicultura artesanales en pequeña escala en América del Sur
Lineamientos de políticas para las autoridades
El presente documento fue preparado con el objetivo de realizar recomendaciones de política pública para el fortalecimiento de la pesca y la acuicultura artesanales en pequeña escala en América del Sur y está dirigido a las autoridades nacionales de pesca y acuicultura en los países de la región. Estas recomendaciones...
2023 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Artículo
Consumer preference for food products addressing multiple dimensions of poverty: Evidence from China
Poverty alleviation products are made by impoverished producers and marketed as such to improve producers’returns. We implement an online discrete choice experiment on rice in China to explore consumer preference forproducts specifically labelled as poverty alleviation products that represent multiple dimensions of poverty. Wealso differentiate the nature of public and...
China
2023
Sitio web
International Women’s Day 2023 - DigitALL - Innovation and technology for gender equality
The International Women's Day (IWD) is a global day to celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women, while making a worldwide call to action to strengthen efforts for supporting gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls.
The United Nations theme for the observance of IWD 2023 is "...
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Libro
Buen vivir y saberes locales: Sistemas andinos y agroecología
Este libro reúne los resultados de investigación de los becarios de la segunda cohorte del Programa de Investigación y Formación en Sistemas Agroecológicos Andinos apoyado por la alianza entre Fundación McKnight y CLACSO. Este proyecto ha permitido que estudiantes de posgrado lleven a cabo investigaciones relevantes para la agricultura de...
2023 - Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO)
Acto
Workshop regional: digitalización de la agricultura: experiencia china y desafíos para América Latina y El Caribe
El proyecto de “Respuesta y recuperación al impacto del Covid-19 en los medios de vida rurales y los sistemas alimentarios en los países de la Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños (CELAC) a través de la Cooperación Sur-Sur” se desarrolla en 12 países de la región y tiene como resultados...
2023 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Artículo de blog
Knowledge, innovation and digitalization can transform agriculture in Uzbekistan
Digital innovation and technology can transform agrifood systems into environmentally and economically sustainable systems that will promote better production and enhance more equitable rural livelihoods with increased opportunities for women, youth, and vulnerable groups. The challenge is how to move ahead with a digitalization programme that is effective and efficient,...
Uzbekistan
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Parte de un informe
Cultivando nuestras vidas
La Plataforma de Conocimientos sobre Agricultura Familiar en colaboración con Barefoot Guide Connection organizó una serie de “talleres de escritura”, para ayudar a los profesionales a escribir sus propias experiencias, generando conocimientos que destaquen las prácticas, cambios, innovaciones e impactos de lo que hacen en apoyo a la agricultura familiar.
Estos...
Ecuador
2023 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Artículo de blog
Women Smallholders Will Drive Africa’s Transition to Regenerative Agriculture
Regenerative agriculture techniques provide a lifeline to the world's poorest farmers, restoring soils and increasing yields and incomes while sequestering carbon emissions. Because women account for 80% of Kenyan farmers, women must drive the transition to regenerative farming at scale. According to a report released last year by the IUCN and...
2023
Artículo de blog
The challenges of being a female farmer in Uganda
Nambiro Fatuma is a single mother of 4 kids that fully depend on her. She, on the other hand, depends on her income that comes from a family farm owned by her father. “I produce bananas, maize, beans, cassava, sweet potatoes, mangoes and avocados…” she says. “I once thought about starting a poultry...
Uganda
2023 - Food Security Center
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