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Newsletter article
Governo do Estado lança o Projeto 'Elas no Campo e na Pesca'

O projeto tem como pilares atuantes o empreendedorismo, a liderança e a autonomia das mulheres rurais
O Projeto "Elas no Campo e na Pesca" tem como pilares atuantes o empreendedorismo, a liderança e a autonomia das mulheres rurais. A estimativa é de que o projeto beneficie duas mil trabalhadoras do campo e da pesca de todos os municípios do Espirito Santo. O "Elas no Campo e na...
Brazil
2019 - Secretaria da Agricultura, Aquicultura, Abastecimento e Pesca (SEAG)

Book
Tree Foods For Healthy Diets in South Sudan

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...
South Sudan
2019 - Food Plant Solutions

Video
Entre Semiáridos

"Entre Semiáridos" é uma memória dos sentimentos e aprendizagens geradas pelas trocas de saberes entre campesinos e campesinas das regiões do Sahel, na África; do Corredor Seco, na América Central; e do Semiárido brasileiro.  
Brazil
2019 - Articulação Semiárido

Report
IFPRI 2019 Global food policy report

The 2019 Global Food Policy Report reviews major food policy developments and events from the past year. In this eighth annual report, leading researchers, policymakers, and practitioners examine what happened in food policy in 2018 and why, and look ahead to 2019.In 2018, many regions of the world faced increasing...
2019 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Blog article
Ministério lança concurso para selecionar empreendimentos inovadores de Mulheres Rurais

Objetivo é encontrar práticas individuais ou coletivas inovadoras voltadas para a autonomia econômica das mulheres rurais e que tenham contribuído para melhorar a qualidade de vida das suas comunidades. Valor da premiação é de R$ 20 mil.
O Ministério da Agricultura, Pecuária e Abastecimento (MAPA) lançou nesta terça-feira (15) o edital do concurso Inovar para mudar – a autonomia das #MulheresRurais e sua contribuição para reduzir a pobreza e a insegurança alimentar. A iniciativa integra a 4ª edição da Campanha Regional Mulheres Rurais, Mulheres com Direitos, coordenada pela Secretaria de Agricultura Familiar...
Brazil
2019 - Ministério da Agricultura, Pecuária e Abastecimento (MAPA)

Book
Potentially Important Food Plants of Zambia

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...
Zambia
2018

Video
La historia de Marcela, agricultora chilena

Fundación Microfinanzas BBVA, en el marco de la campaña regional #MujeresRurales, #MujeresconDerechos nos presenta #HistoriasqueEmpoderan.  Este video es de Marcela quien se dedica a la agricultura ecológica, que solo representa el 0,1% de la producción agrícola chilena. Con el apoyo de la Fundación Microfinanzas BBVA ha podido progresar y darles un...
Chile
2018 - Fundación Microfinanzas BBVA

Guidelines
Developing gender-sensitive value chains. Guidelines for practitioners

What efforts need to be made to effectively mainstream gender in agrifood value chain projects and programmes? When can a value chain intervention be considered ‘gender-sensitive’? What actions can be implemented to address gender inequalities along the chain? These guidelines aim to respond to these questions and support practitioners in translating...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Video
La historia de Adelaida Morán, desde una aldea panameña

Fundación Microfinanzas BBVA, en el marco de la campaña regional #MujeresRurales, #MujeresconDerechos nos presenta #HistoriasqueEmpoderan.  Este video cuenta la historia de Adelaida Morán, quien narra su relato desde su comunidad de Capira, Panamá. Encontrará más historias como ésta en el canal: #MujeresRurales, Mujeres con derechos 
Panama
2018 - Fundación Microfinanzas BBVA

Project
Renovating a dairy cowshed in Estonia

A young female farmer decided to expand her farm in order for it to be able to accommodate the increasing production needs. Thanks to RDP support she was able to renovate the cowshed by installing a new feeding system and more milking places, along with a more efficient manure processing...
Estonia
2018 - European Network for Rural Development

Video
La historia de Luz Dary, desde el campo colombiano

Fundación Microfinanzas BBVA, en el marco de la campaña regional #MujeresRurales, #MujeresconDerechos nos presenta #HistoriasqueEmpoderan.  Luz tiene 46 años, casi tantos como el conflicto armado en Colombia. Vive en el Cauca desde hace tiempo: antes, zona guerrillera; hoy, priorizada por el Gobierno en la transición de paz. Gracias a su negocio...
Colombia
2018 - Fundación Microfinanzas BBVA

Event
FAO Regional Conference for the Near East (NERC)

FAO Regional Conferences are an official forum where Ministers of agriculture and senior officials of Member Countries from the same geographic region meet to elaborate on  regional challenges and priority matters related to food and agriculture. Main role of the Conferences is to promote regional coherence on global policies and...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Journal
La Tierra del Agricultor y Ganadero - 270

Número 270 de la revista oficial de UPA “La Tierra del agricultor y ganadero''  UPA insiste ante el Gobierno y la Unión Europea :La PAC solo tendrá futuro si concentra sus apoyos en la agricultura familiar; UPA lidera en Europa la defensa de la agricultura familiar en la PAC del futuro; El 3º Encuentro...
Spain
2018 - UNIÓN DE PEQUEÑOS AGRICULTORES Y GANADEROS (UPA)

Article
Un réseau de fermes agroécologiques pour autonomiser des femmes au Togo et au Bénin

Adaptation Basée sur les Ecosystèmes
Des groupements de paysans et paysannes ont pu tirer profit du projet de promotion de la souveraineté alimentaire axé sur la valorisation des pratiques agroécologiques au Bénin et au Togo. Avec l’appui du Service chrétien d’appui à l’animation rurale (Secaar), ils se sont organisés en réseaux de paysans et de...
Benin - Togo
2018 - IED Afrique

Newsletter article
FAO calls to respect indigenous peoples’ collective rights to lands, territories and natural resources

From 16-27 April 2018, the Seventeenth Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues is taking place under the theme: “Indigenous peoples’ collective rights to lands, territories and resources”. As this theme directly links to FAO’s mandate, FAO Director-General, José Graziano da Silva, delivered a video-message in which he stressed the need...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Website
Convocatoria Saberes y Sabores: las #MujeresRurales al rescate de la alimentación tradicional saludable y la protección de la biodiversidad

Saberes y sabores se enmarca en la campaña regional #MujeresRurales, mujeres con derechos, un esfuerzo colectivo para visibilizar logros y desafíos hacia el empoderamiento y la autonomía plena de todas las mujeres en el mundo rural. Se trata de una convocatoria abierta a la participación tanto de mujeres como de hombres, para...
2018 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)

Website
15 días por la autonomía plena de las mujeres rurales

Este sitio web es la herramienta donde encontrará toda la información del activismo realizado en torno a la Campaña Mujeres Rurales, Mujeres con Derecho 2018 durante el mes de octubre. Con el hashtag #AhoraEsElMomento de trabajar por la autonomía plena de las mujeres rurales, indígenas y afrodescendientes de América Latina y el...
2018 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)

Video
+Algodón +Artesanía

El Proyecto +Algodón, iniciativa de Cooperación Sur-Sur Trilateral, desarrolla iniciativas con enfoque de género para apoyar el fortalecimiento de las capacidades de las mujeres rurales e indígenas algodoneras de los países socios.  
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
2018 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)

Blog article
In rural Paraguay, women are on the frontlines of a ‘race against time’ to save native seeds

In Chacore, about 200 kilometers east of Asunción, Paraguay’s capital, Ceferina Guerrero, 68, walks by shelves of carefully-labelled plastic bottles and metal drums. Each contains a native seed variety essential to the diets of rural communities. Their labels list seed names in Guarani, an indigenous language and Paraguay’s second official language,...
Paraguay
2018 - La Via Campesina

Conference paper
Strengthening Gender Equality in Agriculture and Rural Development in the Near East and North Africa Region

Gender considerations are important in achieving sustainable development and food security, as reflected in global commitments to Sustainable Development Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Agriculture and rural development rely on the participation of both women and men in food production, resource management, balancing paid work and family...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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