This news article refers to Women as the cornerstone of the rural economy, especially in the developing world. They bear the greatest responsibility for food production, producing more than half of all food in the world and growing 80-90% of the food in sub-Saharan Africa. Yet despite this, women are all...

This article defines the Clinton Development Initiative (CDI), and how mobile data collection is empowering Smallholder Farmers

Bouwas Mawara and his wife Nyengeterai, small scale farmers in the semi-arid Zvishavane district of Zimbabwe, are renowned for their innovation in water harvesting for crop and animal production, and for setting up local structures and systems to spread innovations amongst fellow farmers. Today at least 160 farming families in...

At the Centre for Environment Concerns, an NGO based in Hyderabad, India, the challenge was clear: develop an inclusive irrigation technology suitable for low rainfall areas. Alongside farmers and female farm labourers, they developed a system that provides assured moisture directly to the plant root zone. Initial trials show two...

Este documento presenta los resultados de un estudio, realizado en la segunda mitad del año 2014, que procuró caracterizar –en términos objetivos y subjetivos– la situación socio-demográfica, el acceso al mercado de trabajo, a la educación y a las nuevas Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación (TIC) de las...

This 2014–2015 Global Food Policy Report is the fourth in an annual series that provides a comprehensive overview of major food policy developments and events. In this report, distinguished researchers, policymakers, and practitioners review what happened in food policy in 2014 at the global, regional, and national levels, and—supported by...

In Natore, Western Bangladesh, women running their family farms are growing high value crops that are improving rural incomes and strengthening national food security.

El presente boletín evidencia el aporte de las mujeres rurales a la agricultura familiar en Colombia en aspectos relacionados con la producción de alimentos y el suministro de éstos en el hogar. El documento aborda los siguientes temas: el género como categoría de análisis bidimensional; la definición de agricultura familiar; la...

What is it that makes the Dimitra community listeners’ clubs so special? This fact sheet answers that question by highlighting the eight key features that are crucial to the functioning of the Dimitra listeners’ clubs, and which make the approach unique.

“Only by putting the poorest in charge of their own lives and destinies, will absolute poverty and deprivation be removed from the face of the earth.” These words came from Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, 2015 winner of the prestigious World Food Prize, which was announced this summer. To celebrate the prize...

By prioritising human and non-human life over economic profit, and cooperation over competition, citizens of the city of Cordoba have been able to transform their food system into a thriving network of local food producers and consumers. Women have been at the forefront of this movement.

When the seasonal rains came to some regions of south-eastern Senegal, the flooding used to cut off the inhabitants from the rest of the country. But that has changed with the IFAD-supported project known as PADAER – Projet d’Appui au Développement Agricole et à l’Entreprenariat Rural. Thanks to the projects’...

This website has been created to help smallholders gain access to formal markets and improve the effectiveness of outgrower schemes. Formal markets can increase the number of potential buyers for smallholder produce but these markets require traceability and compliance to food safety standards; something which has traditionally been challenging and...

Esta noticia cubre la apertura de la Reunión de Comisiones de este órgano regional legislativo, celebrada el 25 de Septiembre de 2015 en la ciudad de México.

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...

En Gambie, les femmes cultivent souvent des sols dégradés et improductifs car les terres fertiles sont généralement réservées aux hommes. Mais les choses sont en train de changer. À l’aide de techniques simples, des marécages sont transformés en terres agricoles. Awa Jagne, qui autrefois avait du mal à nourrir ses...

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 presidente Juan Manuel Santos  expedirá varios decretos que contemplan una profunda reforma institucional al sector agrícola. Estas medidas incluyen la creación de dos agencias: Agencia de Desarrollo Rural y Agencia Nacional de Tierras. Además se creará la Dirección de Mujer Rural y la Dirección de Agricultura Familiar. También se ampliarán las...

A vast wealth of knowledge about crops, nutrition, medicines, biodiversity, ecosystems, climate change and more, is on the verge of being lost to Africa forever, just when it is most needed. Over millennia, women in most African traditions have played a central role in selecting, storing, and enhancing the diversity...

This policy brief provides five lessons to support gender inclusive interventions for agriculture and food security, based on evidence and case studies from research in low- and middle-income countries. The brief also offers guidelines for crafting gender-responsive climate policies at global and national levels.  Recommendations cover adoption of new technologies...