The food component of the Niyat project currently reaches about 40 families and will reach 120 in the next two years. Each family is a multiplying nucleus that aims to reach 2,400 families in total through trainings carried out in different formats.    

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...

El programa colabora a la seguridad alimentaria, dirigida a la producción agroecológica en pequeñas escala de alimentos frescos. Se brinda capacitación y asistencia técnica continua para el establecimiento de huertas y granjas, mediante una red de promotores locales de voluntarias femeninas; se beneficia a familias y organizaciones de productores en...

El Día Internacional de las Mujeres Rurales (15 de octubre) destaca el papel crucial de las mujeres y niñas rurales en los sistemas alimentarios, desde la producción hasta la distribución de alimentos. A pesar de su gran aporte, enfrentan desigualdad, menos ingresos y mayor inseguridad alimentaria. La COVID-19 y las...

This article examines the role of the ‘Water for Resilience’ intervention in empowering poor women for sustainable development in the semi-arid and deprived settings of rural north-western Ghana. The Water for Resilience project aimed at equipping poor women, with enhanced income-generating opportunities to overcome poverty and to enhance resilience. This...

Boletín Trabajo agrario y ruralidades en transformación. Número #5 Agronegocio, seguridad alimentaria y género. Editado por el Grupo de Trabajo CLACSO Trabajo agrario, ruralidades y desigualdades En esta edición, podrá conocer artículos interesantes sobre: A Revolução Azul no Brasil. O agronegócio e a transformação agroindustrial da produção de pescados a partir da aquicultura...

In sub-Saharan Africa, more than 60 percent of women are employed in agriculture and yet their potential as farmers and entrepreneurs is often limited due to gender inequalities, reduced access to farming inputs such as seeds and fertilizers and little or no access to finance.  Despite women being the largest contributors...

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...

In late 2015, the world pledged to transform our future by committing to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which foresees reforms providing women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, in accordance with national laws. This gave further...

"The small amount that (Natheer) used to send while he was an immigrant, hardly meets our daily basic need but was not sufficient, because work in the village is difficult and seasonal. The war robbed our husbands' livelihood in their home cities, and the misery reached us in the countryside";...

El presente estudio “La protección de los derechos de las mujeres rurales en América Latina. Estado actual de la legislación y políticas existentes en el contexto post-pandemia COVID-19” (en adelante, el Estudio) busca contribuir al empoderamiento de las mujeres rurales como dimensión estratégica para la recuperación en el contexto post-pandemia y,...

Bangladeshi women are traditionally involved in various agricultural activities but most of their efforts remain unnoticed. To emphasize the significance of women's role in agricultural production, this paper highlights the major activities performed by Bangladeshi women in diverse agricultural production based on published literature. It was observed that Bangladeshi women...

The role played by women in agriculture is decisive. The FAO estimates that they contribute half of the world’s food production1 . They are often responsible for the preparation of the land, watering, harvesting, storage, processing, and packaging, as well as for the supply of water and the administrative and...

La presente Nota Jurídica se basa en la publicación “La protección de los derechos de las mujeres rurales en América Latina y el Caribe”, realizada por la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO) y la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID)...

The leader of the Community Managed Natural Farming (CMNF) programme Vijay Kumar explains the Social Capital side of the story, and how women’s groups were a central part of the success of CMNF, now recognised worldwide as a model of agricultural transformation. The CMNF initiative has mobilised over a million...

This project aimed to understand the impact of the recommendations of the Scottish Government’s Women in Agriculture Taskforce (Scottish Government, 2019), and the influence of other initiatives that support ‘women in agriculture’, on women’s experiences working on farms and in the agricultural industry in Scotland. This project involved individuals originally...

The importance of gender-responsive research in agriculture is now widely accepted, as demonstrated by the call for capacity building targeted at agricultural researchers in the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) and at other agricultural research organizations (CGIAR 2013; CGIARIEA 2017). There is a need to clarify the competency...

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...

Women are the majority of the world’s poor livestock keepers (FAO 2011). Since women are generally responsible for putting food on the table and they typically spend a higher proportion of their income on food compared to men, enhancing women’s control over livestock and their products can improve household nutrition...

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...