La Via Campesina International Conferences are the highest-level space for proposing and making decisions within the movement. From July 16th to 24th, 2017, La Via Campesina will gather in Derio, Biskaia in the Basque Country to re-affirm the commitment of member organizations to build a common path towards food sovereignty...

A importância do enfoque de gênero para a gestão de riscos de desastres ambientais e mudanças climáticas esteve em foco nas estratégias discutidas durante uma reunião técnica que aconteceu dias 22 e 23 de fevereiro, no escritório regional da Organização das Nações Unidas para a Alimentação e a Agricultura (FAO)...

Every three years, the organic sector comes together at the Organic World Congress (OWC), the world’s largest and most significant organic gathering, to discuss and deliberate issues of the day. The OWC is an unique opportunity to share experiences, innovations and knowledge about organics and also take part in the...

Nos arredores da grande São Paulo, na área rural do distrito de Parelheiros, uma mulher começou a trabalhar de forma tímida com o manuseio da terra. Vinte anos se passaram e ela é hoje a responsável pela existência de uma agrofloresta, que fica há cerca de noventa quilômetros do centro...

El feminismo ha avanzado mucho en reflexionar, que ya no podemos seguir hablando de las mujeres como un “grupo homogéneo víctimas pasivas de la opresión”, como bien señala la autora feminista post colonialista Mohanty. Ciertamente, no podemos. Sin embargo, sí podemos seguir argumentando que el patriarcado nos alcanza a todas,...

BBC 100 Women names 100 influential and inspirational women around the world every year. In 2017, we're challenging them to tackle four of the biggest problems facing women today - the glass ceiling, female illiteracy, harassment in public spaces and sexism in sport. With your help, they'll be coming up with real-life...

In 2006, the Government of Malawi initiated a Social Cash Transfer Programme (SCTP), which it called Mtukula Pakhomo (‘Lifting up Families’). Malawi’s SCTP is an unconditional cash transfer programme designed to reduce poverty and hunger, increase school enrolment and attendance and improve the health, nutrition, protection and well-being of children...

The agricultural sector is one of the main contributors to economic growth and sustainable development in ECOWAS member countries. Women are driving forces for agricultural development, food security and nutrition in the region. They represent an important percentage of the agricultural labour force. They are the frontline nutrition care givers...

Sylvia Kuria, an organic farmer from Kenya, shares the story of her organic farm."I’ve got so many reports where they say, you know, your kale, your spinach, your carrots are so sweet. I tell them it’s because they are just growing in the natural way that they were supposed to...

Women are more likely to be food insecure than men in every region of the world, according to FAO’s latest report on the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2017. The report, which was released earlier this month, is the result of a collaboration between the Food and...

Video que muestra como con recursos y conocimientos locales han logrado un incremento de la producción agroecológica del cacao, menteniendo el equilibrio con la naturaleza y su biodiversidad. Esta experiencia ha abierto un sendero para el desarrollo que promueve la identidad local, su inclusión y el arraigo generando una cultura de...

The objective of the assessment is to analyse the agricultural and rural sector of Zimbabwe from a gender perspective at the macro (policy), meso (institutional) and micro (community and household) levels in order to identify gender inequalities in access to critical productive resources, assets, services and opportunities. In particular, the...

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...

This one pager summarizes a study on the programming approach adopted in Niger to implement food purchases for food assistance and to provide procurement preferential treatment to small-scale family farming food outputs. The study provides a detailed description of the selection of farmers, discusses the main constrains faced in a...

In Nicaragua, gender analysis in value chains is usually restricted to a study of men and women as producers or workers within the chain itself. This overlooks many relevant dimensions of gender struggles. We therefore propose a gender analysis in value chains that pays attention to the interrelation of the...

Farming organically, using indigenous crops, can contribute to food security and be part of a climate change solution.In this video, organic farmers in Kenya share their experiences with drought, and the benefits organic farming provides for them to building healthy soils and continue producing food.

El objetivo general del presente estudio es conocer las inequidades, brechas y barreras de género que experimentan las mujeres migrantes que viven en Chile en las regiones Metropolitana, de Tarapacá y Antofagasta en el ejercicio de la autonomía física y económica. El estudio concluye, entre otras cosas, que  son escasas las...

El informe identifica los avances en el abordaje institucional de la violencia contra las mujeres en la región y será una contribución sobre los aprendizajes de la implementación de las políticas y planes nacionales de gran utilidad para múltiples países que están en procesos de formulación, implementación y evaluación de sus...

El documento Brechas de género y desigualdad: de los Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio a los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible es producto de un esfuerzo interagencial entre el Fondo de Población de las Naciones Unidas (UNFPA), el Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD), ONU Mujeres y la...

El Encuentro Nacional de Lideresas Indígenas de Chile “Empoderamiento y dialogo para una agenda de desarrollo sostenible” se realizó en Santiago el 11, 12 y 13 de octubre de 2017 a partir de la colaboración entre CONADI, RIMISP y ONU Mujeres. Este buscó promover el empoderamiento de mujeres indígenas mediante la generación de...