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The Nyagatare district (Eastern Province) is Rwanda’s breadbasket - a vast area of agricultural land providing food for the entire country. The people of this district are mainly farmers, rearing livestock and cultivating crops such as maize and rice, but they suffer a long dry season stretching from June to mid-September and, consequently, water has always been a vital, much sought-after resource - with competition for it high.In 2015, the Rwandan government, together with financial support from the World Bank, constructed a USD 10 million dam and water reservoir.Before long, however, farmers cultivating the upper hillside...

Le dialogue virtuel organisé par la FAO, IISD et OXFAM avec nous, parlementaires des régions Afrique, Europe et Amérique latine et Caraïbes sur le thème « La réponse des parlementaires aux impacts de COVID-19 sur l'égalité de genre, la sécurité alimentaire et la nutrition » est particulièrement opportune et d’une grande importance. Nous avons rarement l'occasion d'échanger entre régions des connaissances et des expériences concernant les questions de genre dans l'agriculture et la sécurité alimentaire et ce dialogue devient cruciale à un moment où une action coordonnée et mondiale est nécessaire pour lutter contre le COVID-19 qui menace la sécurité alimentaire...

On July 22, parliamentarians met with members of farmers’ organizations and rural women’s networks for a virtual dialogue on advancing gender equality in the context of family farming. The discussion centred on the potential of rural women to contribute to sustainable agriculture and food systems, and addressed both the challenges they currently face and the actions that parliamentarians can take to support rural women entrepreneurs and women family farmers, during the current COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.The virtual meeting was the second in a series of dialogues organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO),...

Santiago, Chile – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Parliament of Latin America and the Caribbean (PARLATINO) have released a declaration on increasing responsible investment in agriculture and food systems in the face of the COVID-19 crisis.  "This crisis is an unprecedented opportunity to rethink the way our agriculture and food systems work, in order to adopt recovery measures that allow the economies of all countries in the region to be rebuilt with equality," said Jorge Pizarro, President of PARLATINO. "We want to build a more participatory and humane development...

Sao Tomé - La mise en place de cadres législatifs adéquats nécessite d’une part une volonté politique et d’autre part une action parlementaire, consolidées par une  collaboration multisectorielle mais également une sensibilisation accrue du législateur en direction du public, ainsi que des pouvoirs exécutif et judiciaire.