Within the framework of the Global Campaign for the Empowerment of Indigenous Women for Zero Hunger, the workshop "Visibilizing the contributions of indigenous women for food security through information technologies" was held in Cochabamba, Bolivia from July 2 to 4, 2018. This meeting was held under the auspices of the United Nations Organization for Food and Agriculture (FAO) and was facilitated by the News Agency of Indigenous and Afro-descendent Women (NOTIMIA). The workshop was aimed at strengthening the capacities of indigenous women in the use of information and communication technologies (ICT), specifically to raise awareness of the important contributions of...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO, and the International Indigenous Women’s Forum, IIWF/FIMI, are pleased to call for indigenous women leaders from Africa to the Training of Trainers on Human Rights, Food and Nutrition Security.  FIMI is a global network of indigenous women leaders that links local, national and regional organizations from Asia, Africa, the Arctic, the Pacific and the Americas. FIMI’s mission is to bring together indigenous women leaders and human rights activists from different parts of the world to coordinate agendas, capacity-build and develop leadership roles. FIMI encourages the coherent and substantive inclusion of the...

The Photography Contest “Indigenous Women and Food Security in Latin-America and the Caribbean” received more than 90 photographs taken by indigenous women. The first places were won by indigenous women from the Zapoteco, the Maya Q’echi’ and the Aymara peoples. Being an indigenous woman was one of the requirements to participate in this photography contest, that is part of the Global Campaign for the Empowerment of Indigenous Women for Zero Hunger promoted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International...

Representantes de Las Veguillas y San Fabián de Alico conocieron iniciativa que busca estabilizar las poblaciones del huemul, zorro de Darwin y queule en la Región de Ñuble. Completo respaldo al proyecto que promueve buenas prácticas agrícolas y turísticas para la conservación de especies amenazadas en la región de Ñuble entregaron los integrantes de las comunidades Las Veguillas y San Fabián de Alico.  La iniciativa del 

Indigenous women and men should have equal rights to lands and territories. In some communities indigenous women are marginalize and do not have access to land. Increase the visibility of indigenous women will raise awareness of these challenges they face. The Global Campaign for the Empowerment of Indigenous Women for Zero Hunger, launched by FAO, FIMI and Notimia, aims at making indigenous women’s challenges and contributions visible as a necessary step to “leave no one behind” in the...