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Fact sheet
Women's empowerment in aquaculture in Bangladesh and Indonesia: Insights from four case studies
This factsheet contributes to FAO Organizational Strategic Objective 1 "Eradicate hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition", Strategic Objective 2 "Increase and improve provision of goods and services from agriculture, forestry and fisheries in a sustainable manner", and Strategic Objective 3 "Reduce rural poverty". The purpose of this factsheet is to briefly...
Bangladesh - Indonesia
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Policy brief/paper
The community land rights of women and youth in Turkana County, Kenya
This policy brief presents the main findings of a situational analysis and assessment of women’s and youth’s ability to access community land in Turkana County, Kenya, with a focus on their rights. The brief highlights the fact that even though policy and legal frameworks provide for equal rights and nondiscrimination...
Kenya
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Blog article
De mi huerto a la escuela
Adriana Tambaco, una pequeña agricultora ecuatoriana, nos habla de cómo sus alimentos frescos aportan al desarrollo de su comunidad y de niñas y niños en la provincia de Imbabura.
Ecuador
2017 - Programa Mundial de Alimentos (PMA Ecuador)
Policy brief/paper
The community land rights of women and youth in Tana River County, Kenya
This policy brief presents the main findings of a situational analysis and assessment of women’s and youth’s ability to access community land in Tana River County, Kenya, with a focus on their rights. The brief highlights the fact that even though policy and legal frameworks provide for equal rights and...
Kenya
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Video
FAO-Dimitra Clubs : Stepping stones for rural development
This video highlights the FAO Dimitra Clubs approach, its implementation, functioning modalities and keys features. “FAO-Dimitra Clubs: Stepping stones for rural development” is part of a series that illustrates the impact of FAO-Dimitra Clubs, a successful gender-transformative approach developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)....
Burundi - Democratic Republic of the Congo - Ghana - Niger - Senegal
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Article
Mujeres rurales, conmemoración desde la lucha
En el Día Internacional de la Mujer Cinep/PPP se aproxima a sus luchas a través de las mujeres rurales colombianas. Sus trayectorias son muestra del limitado rol cultural que se les ha asignado a las mujeres y ejemplifican el tesón y la persistencia que se requiere para sobrepasar los obstáculos...
Colombia
2017 - Iniciativa Basada en Compromisos "Mujer Rural y Derecho a la Tierra" - ILC LAC
Video
Women in Small-scale Fisheries in Tanzania: Challenges and Opportunities
This video case study explores the challenges that women involved in fisheries activities face on a day to day basis in Tanzania: What successes have they achieved? how can their participation in fisheries be strategically improved? It also explains the strategies in place at local and national levels to counter...
United Republic of Tanzania
2017 - The International Collective in Support of Fish workers (ICSF)
Video
Fanny Guancha Mujer rural
En el día internacional de la mujer, CINEP da a conocer este material audivisual, resaltando la forma de vida de Fanny Guancha, mujer rural del departamento de Nariño.
Colombia
2017 - Centro de Investigación y Educación Popular (CINEP)
Event
Asia-Pacific women farmers share their initiatives in India forum
Around 90 women farmers and representatives of rural women from 14 countries in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific regions came up with a declaration at the end of the three-day Asia-Pacific Women Farmers Forum (APWFF) held in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India on 4-6 October 2017.
Aimed to make appreciation for...
India
2017 - Asian Farmers' Association
Report
Research on rural women’s economic empowerment and social protection
Rwanda Vision 2020 Umurenge: Public Works
This research focuses on the public works component of Rwanda’s Vision 2020 Umurenge Programme (VUP) – the Government of Rwanda’s flagship programme for poverty reduction providing countrywide social protection. The research was based on a mixed method approach comprising in-depth qualitative methods and quantitative surveys conducted in Rwanda during the...
Rwanda
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Blog article
How to be a rural woman and live to tell the tale!
It’s 5 o’clock and the alarm goes off. She has breakfast and, with the radio in the background, she gets dressed for work. Milking starts at 6, but before that she needs to take the cows to the milking parlour. They aren’t many, but with the old facilities they find...
European Union
2017 - SIMRA
Video
Role and Place of Women in Fisheries Value Chain: Case of Dagaa Fishery in the Lake Victoria
he video explores the role and place of women along fisheries value chain: The significance and values their involvement in fisheries brings to the communities and fisheries development. Why are they involved in fisheries? how are they organized for space in decision-making and policy processes? The focus of this study...
Kenya - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania
2017 - The International Collective in Support of Fish workers (ICSF)
Policy brief/paper
Social protection and the financial inclusion of rural women in family farming in Latin America
Several governments in the region have implemented a set of interventions aimed at complementing large-scale cash transfer programmes. This has led to significant progress in the provision of protection to vulnerable women and strengthening their economic autonomy. In Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, cash transfer programmes have been complemented by other...
2017 - International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG)
Report
Situación general de las mujeres rurales e indígenas en México
Este Informe País aporta datos fundamentales para tener en cuenta en cualquier tipo de discusión, proyecto o iniciativa que implique a las mujeres rurales de México, a la vez que propone recomendaciones puntuales para la garantía de sus derechos.
Los Informes País sobre la situación de las mujeres rurales son una...
Mexico
2017 - Iniciativa Basada en Compromisos "Mujer Rural y Derecho a la Tierra" - ILC LAC
Report
Alianza de mujeres por el acceso a la tierra y medios de producción (Guatemala)
Esta herramienta de comunicación e incidencia es el resultado de estrategias implementadas por grupos de mujeres que trabajan por la garantía de sus derechos, el reconocimiento de sus identidades y la participación en los espacios de toma de decisiones que afectan a las mujeres rurales en Latinoamérica.
Con esta herramienta se...
Guatemala
2017 - Iniciativa Basada en Compromisos "Mujer Rural y Derecho a la Tierra" - ILC LAC
Blog article
The mountain leaders rural women are
Wherever you go, whatever you produce, whatever you believe in, Women of the mountains are determined to lead their societies for survival.
Lebanon
2017 - SIMRA
Blog article
Las mujeres rurales de América Latina y el Caribe sacan la voz
FAO anunció a las ganadoras de su concurso de historias
Mujeres que enfrentaron los efectos de la industrialización del cacao en Bolivia y mujeres que sembraron palmas en los territorios recuperados por la paz en Colombia, son las dos historias que ganaron el concurso de relatos y fotografías organizado por la FAO para dar a conocer las experiencias de vida...
2017 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Working paper
Gender-differentiated impacts of tenure insecurity on agricultural performance in Malawi’s customary tenure systems
Many African countries rely on sporadic land transfers from customary to statutory domains to attract investment and improve agricultural performance. Data from 15,000 smallholders and 800 estates in Malawi allow exploring the long-term effects of such a strategy. The results suggest that (i) most estates are less productive than smallholders;...
Malawi
2017 - World Bank
Working paper
An assessment of the livestock economy in mixed crop-livestock production systems in Ethiopia
The livestock subsector has contributed little to the remarkable economic growth recorded in Ethiopia in the last decade. In an effort to stimulate livestock production, the Ethiopian government has recently recognized livestock as an important strategic subsector in which to invest. Unlike most studies that focus purely on aspects of...
Ethiopia
2017 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Audio
No Sul, mulheres lideram agroindústria e produção de orgânicos
Conheça a história de Bruna Dariva, de Erechim, no Rio Grande do Sul, embaixadora da Região Sul da campanha # Mulheres rurais, mulheres com direitos. Ela atua na fabricação de queijos e defende que é possível as mulheres assumirem a liderança da agroindústia, sem deixar de lado a produção de orgânicos.
Se...
Brazil
2017 - Radio Agencia Nacional
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