Gender

Newsletters

01/06/2010

  This issue of the Dimitra Newsletter focuses on Husbands’ Schools in Niger, an innovative project aimed at involving men in the promotion of reproductive health. Other articles are devoted to: gender and disaster risk management, Farmer Field Schools in West Africa and FAO's latest campaign to denounce hunger. 24 pp.  

11/08/2009

This issue of the Dimitra newsletter introduces readers to the FAO project ‘Capitalisation of Good Practices in Support of Agricultural Production and Food Security’. It also presents three new radio listeners’ clubs and a rural women's community radio based in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

01/05/2009

This issue is devoted to FAO’s efforts in the Great Lakes Region, where Farmer Field Schools have been instrumental in addressing a range of problems, including food insecurity, HIV/AIDS and violence against women. 24 pp.

01/11/2008

This issue of the Dimitra newsletter focuses on how – in an international context of rising food prices and raw material shortages – the livelihoods of the poorest populations, and of women in particular, are inextricably linked to their rights, as well as their economic, political and social status. 24 pp.

01/03/2008

This newsletter focuses on Dimitra's work with rural radios and participatory communication in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In South Kivu province, for instance, the sharing of solar radios between women members of the listeners’ clubs are effectively boosting paricipation of both men and women in their own development. 24 pp.

01/09/2007

The 13th edition of the Dimitra newsletter provides information on the rights of rural women producers, as well as the impact of sexual violence and HIV/AIDS on both women and men. 24 pp.

01/01/2007

The ability to access information and to share it through dissemination and networking is crucial to fighting inequality, malnutrition and poverty. This edition of the Dimitra newsletter looks at rural populations' access to information and communication. 24 pp.

14/06/2006

This report presents the activities and results of a workshop organized by FAO's Dimitra project, an information and communication project with the aim of empowering rural populations by facilitating access to information. 145 pp.