Défis Sud cette année publie deux dossiers : l’un consacré aux 60 ans des ONGs belges et l’autre à la souveraineté technologique du monde paysan. À l’occasion du soixantième anniversaire des ONG belges, nous écrivons que la solidarité est « le seul chemin possible pour relever les défis globaux et...

Cette note préparée par le Réseau International Formation agricole et rurale dans le cadre du séminaire international « Comment mieux prendre en compte le genre dans la FAR ? » traite de l’égalité des sexes dans l’agriculture en Afrique subsaharienne, avec un accent particulier sur les contraintes et les défis auxquels les...

Women's empowerment is essential for achieving agricultural development goals like increasing productivity among smallholders, aligning with Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 2.3 and 5. Agricultural collectives, including producer groups and farmer producer organizations (FPOs), offer promising avenues for empowering women and improving smallholder incomes. Research on this approach is growing, highlighting...

This study launched at the Gender Caucus during the UNCCD COP15 in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, demonstrates that desertification, land degradations and drought (DLDD) is not only about the land but about people. Climate, ecosystems and human societies are interdependent. Women make valuable contributions to land restoration efforts through recovery of traditional...

Face au défi du renouvellement des générations, le manque d’attractivité du métier de chef d’entreprise agricole, en particulier auprès des femmes et des jeunes, devient une question stratégique de souveraineté alimentaire. S’intéresser à la dynamique de l’entrepreneuriat féminin en agriculture se présente ainsi comme une opportunité d’y répondre. Encore à...

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is negotiating a new climate finance goal, the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG), to set future climate finance scales and ambitions. This is vital as the previous goal set in 2009 will expire in 2024. Integrating gender equality into climate finance...

Seed systems are essential to bring good genetic material to farmers. Women farmers, however, have benefited less than men farmers from seed systems in low and middle income countries. We identify factors that inhibit and promote women's success in seed businesses through three case studies of women's and men's entrepreneurship...

The role of agency in women’s empowerment, whether individual or collective, has long been at the center of feminist discourse. Although, highly context dependent, studies on agency are less contextualized. Based on mixed methods, we generated in-depth understandings of what constitutes agency in livestock-based institutions, and associated contextual factors across...

FAO Venezuela deployed actions in the states of Amazonas, Apure, and Sucre to "Reduce the protection risks of selected vulnerable communities through the improvement of their food and nutritional security, the rapid restoration/creation of their livelihoods and community awareness and knowledge creation, integrating gender and intersectional approaches", between January 2023...

Yemaya No. 66, dated March 2023, features articles on IYAFA Asia workshop, National level women in fisheries workshop in Chennai, India, article on gender and marine plastic pollution, report of a panel discussion during the 8th global symposium  on gender in aquaculture and fisheries. Kyoko Kusakabe write that gender responsive fisheries require not only...

Les régions oasiennes du Maroc sont confrontées à des changements continus liés à des facteurs comme la rareté de l’eau, les migrations et l’urbanisation, conditionnant la survie de ces espaces millénaires. Cependant, les activités des femmes et leurs contributions sociales et économiques face à ces changements sont peu prises en...

Au Maghreb, les femmes entrepreneures font face à de nombreuses contraintes économiques, sociales et culturelles. Ces contraintes, identifiées dans de nombreuses études, limitent souvent fortement la capacité des femmes à initier leur projet d’entrepreneuriat et à le développer. L’étude analyse les stratégies menées par des femmes entrepreneures pour surmonter les...

To be effective, nature-based solutions (NbS) for adaptation need to consider how our unique identities influence our interactions with the natural world and our capacity to adapt to the impacts of climate change. It sounds challenging, but it starts with integrated climate risk assessments. We share three key take-aways from...

This Danish Institute for International Studies policy brief highlights that it is important to consider how climate change intersects with traditional and gendered dynamics, such as dowry. Crucially, due to traditional gender dynamics, men’s climate mobility can amplify women’s immobility. When men’s labour migration fails or the stream of remittances...

The UN General Assembly’s declaration of 2026 as the IYRP highlights the global significance of rangelands and pastoralists. The initiative seeks to:  Increase awareness of the value of rangelands and pastoralism for food security, the economy, the environment and cultural heritage  Fill knowledge gaps through participatory research and strategic communication  Advocate for...

Family farmers innovate by developing assemblages of old and new food system practices and organizational processes, using both traditional and diverse forms of knowledge and connecting these with newly available information and technologies. These innovations have a holistic approach and can take many forms: technological, social, policy, financial, marketing, legislative...

Climate change affects every aspect of the food system, including all nodes along agri-food value chains from production to consumption, the food environments in which people live, and outcomes, such as diets and livelihoods. Men and women often have specific roles and responsibilities within food systems, yet structural inequalities (formal...

Food and nutrition security is one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals enshrined in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In an attempt to contribute to reaching this objective, school feeding programmes are serving meals to over 418 million pre-primary, primary and secondary schoolchildren around the world. The positive experience...

The article "Agroecology: A Labor of Love" discusses the transformative potential of agroecology in addressing labor issues within food systems. It highlights how agroecology can emancipate workers from the exploitative conditions of industrial agriculture by integrating ecological principles and social justice. The piece emphasizes the need for a holistic approach...

In response to increasing calls for better consideration of social dimensions in Forest (and) Landscape Restoration (FLR), this systematic literature review identifies and synthesises relevant themes associated with critical social perspectives in FLR. Critical perspectives are methodologically diverse but generally share an intention to interrogate power and knowledge, challenge the...