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Target Zero Hunger Podcast: Spotlight on FAO Dimitra Clubs in Niger

In communities throughout Niger, a quiet revolution is underway.

12/04/2017

Its protagonists, tens of thousands of women, men and youth, are organizing into groups and mobilizing their communities to find local solutions to local problems—and often changing gender relations and helping to achieve gender equality along the way. Their method has proven to be transformational in hundreds of villages across the country, yet it sounds refreshingly simple: listening to each other.

The latest episode from the FAO podcast series, Target: Zero Hunger, takes us to the village of Gogayzé in Niger, to find out more about this listening revolution, and the role that FAO’s Dimitra Clubs play in it.

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