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Gaining identity as farmers: A case of women collectives in Kerala
The Kerala State provides a different picture of the success of women in farming. Collective power of women groups, integration of local self governments and proactive credit schemes have enabled landless women to emerge as commercial organic farmers in Kerala. Women are now visible as major farmers in the State,...
India
2015 - AME Foundation
Conference proceedings
Seminário Regional sobre Agroecologia na América Latina e Caribe
Agroecologia da América Latina e Caribe, ocorrido em junho de 2015, em Brasília-DF, contou com a participação de gestores públicos, de acadêmicos e de representantes de organizações e movimentos sociais de 21 países da região.3 Os conteúdos-chave debatidos no seminário são apresentados na sequência por meio da reprodução de intervenções...
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Working paper
Climate Change Adaptation Assets and Group-Based Approaches
Gendered Perceptions from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Mali, and Kenya
People who rely on natural resources for their livelihoods are more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and are often limited in their capacity to adapt to the changes. Vulnerability to climate change is exacerbated when individuals’ asset base is limited or insecure. Because control over assets is highly...
Bangladesh - Ethiopia - Kenya - Mali
2015 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Journal article
Birbhum’s tribal women show the way
Organised into a collective, 30-odd women farmers in a remote tribal hamlet in West Bengal have not only gained necessary skills on agriculture, but have also learned leadership qualities. Gradually, these women are discovering themselves as decision makers not only in their respective families, but also in their villages.
India
2015 - ILEIA - Centre for learning on sustainable agriculture
Report
Plan para la seguridad alimentaria, nutrición y erradicación del hambre de la CELAC 2025
América Latina es la subregión que mayores avances ha hecho, logrando tanto la meta del Objetivo de Desarrollo del Milenio, al disminuir su prevalencia de subalimentación de 14.4% en 1990/92 a 5.1%% en 2012/14, como también la meta más ambiciosa de la Cumbre Mundial de la Alimentación (CMA) de 1996,...
2015 - Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños (CELAC)
Report
Concertation Nationale des Organisations Paysannes du Congo
Présentation de la "Concertation Nationale des Organisations Paysannes du Congo" (CNOP – Congo), aboutissement d’un processus de structuration des OP du Congo, et composée des cadres de Concertations des Organisations Paysannes et Producteurs Agricoles. Elle se veut un espace où les organisations paysannes, les paysans et producteurs en zone rurale,...
Congo
2015 - Plateforme Régionale des organisations Paysannes d’Afrique centrale (PROPAC)
Fact sheet
Africa Solidarity Trust Fund - by Africans for Africans
A unique, Africa-led fund to improve agriculture and food security across the continent has become a reality. Officially launched in June 2013 with funding totaling over US $ 40 million from Equatorial Guinea, Angola and group of civil society organizations in the Republic of Congo.
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Article
La FAO entend promouvoir l'agriculture familiale au Congo
Court article relatant l'annonce faite à Brazzaville par le Représentant de l’Organisation des Nations Unies pour l’Alimentation et l’Agriculture (FAO) au Congo, Dieudonné Koguiyagda.
Congo
2015 - Congo-site
Newsletter article
Agricultura urbana en manos de mujeres
Las tecnologías ecológicas pueden solucionar el grave problema del costo a los consumidores finales
Al menos 400 mujeres campesinas migrantes de áreas rurales de Bolivia producen alimentos ecológicos en áreas periurbanas para la nutrición de sus familias y el abastecimiento alimentario de miles de hogares en la ciudad de Sucre, como resultado de la cooperación técnica entre autoridades del Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia y...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
2015 - La Razón
Guidelines
Enhancing the potential of family farming for poverty reduction and food security through gender-sensitive rural advisory services
Occasional Papers on Innovation in Family Farming
Rural advisory services (RAS) can play an important role in addressing gender inequalities. However, RAS programmes have often fallen short of expectations to design and implement relevant services to help rural women and men achieve food security and generate more income. This paper is based on an examination of a...
2015 - FAO
Conference proceedings
Global Dialogue on Family Farming
The Global Dialogue, a two-day event held at FAO headquarters in October 2014, put the spotlight on the consensus reached on the importance of family farming in addressing a number of challenges, from eradicating hunger and poverty to achieving sustainable systems of food production and consumption. This publication synthesizes the...
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Blog article
República Dominicana: Grupos campesinos piden mayor atención a las mujeres en el campo
La Comisión de Mujeres de la Articulación Nacional Campesina (ANC) aprovechó la celebración del Día Internacional de la Mujeres Rurales para llamar la atención de las autoridades en el país sobre la situación de las mujeres dominicana, en especial de las mujeres del campo que se encuentra en desventajas e...
Dominican Republic
2015 - Comisión de Mujeres de la Articulación Nacional Campesina (ANC)
Blog article
Facultades de fortalecimiento institucional contenidas en el Plan Nacional de Desarrollo, son fundamentales para lograr un sector moderno
El Viceministro de Desarrollo Rural de Colombia, Juan Pablo Díaz Granados, en un Foro sobre “Asociatividad con Visión de Cadena”, señaló que uno de los objetivos en los que está trabajando el Ministerio es la creación de dos entidades: “una para la administración de tierras y otra para promover el desarrollo...
Colombia
2015 - Ministerio de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural
Book part
Family Farming: At the Core of the World’s Agricultural History
The diversity of agriculture in the world reflects the immense variety of societies and natural environments on the planet. Indeed, agricultural systems range from various types of shifting slash-and-burn practices – sometimes very similar to those of the first sedentary human groups – to quasi-automated agricultures in some regions of...
2015 - Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD)
Video
Rwanda: Le changement climatique
Au Rwanda, il devient de plus en plus difficile de prévoir le temps, et les agriculteurs perdent environ 40 % de leur production. Des centres d’activité aident maintenant les agriculteurs à s’adapter aux effets du changement climatique. Ils y stockent leurs récoltes en toute sécurité pour les mettre ensuite sur...
Rwanda
2015 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Video
Mali: Comment enrayer l'exode des jeunes
Au Mali, la plupart des jeunes ruraux quittent leurs villages pour essayer de trouver du travail en ville. Les seuls qui restent sont les personnes âgées et les enfants, qui ont bien du mal à produire suffisamment pour se nourrir. Aujourd'hui, des jeunes comme Diallo Haroun reviennent pour un nouveau...
Mali
2015 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Magazine article
The added value of the ‘formal’ stakeholder consultation process
We often hear ‘formal’ stakeholder consultation processes described as time-consuming and bureaucratic, undertaken without adequate information, real representation, or time to discuss and report back. Too often they are carried out as a formality with no chance of influencing well established mechanisms of non-transparent decision-making. We will argue here that...
2015 - European Union
Statement
Declaration of women 5th Global Conference, Let's build the future: family farming
Women participating at the V International Conference of Family Farming: Let’s Build a Future, Family Farming held in Derio on the 21st to 23rd of September 2015, as a result of the Women’s Seminar in Family Farming based on common challenges and goals to be achieved by women from every...
2015 - World Rural Forum (WRF)
Newsletter
Cuaderno La Vía Campesina n°7, Agroecología campesina por la soberanía alimentaria y la madre tierra
Este cuaderno de la Vía Campesina describe que "Como La Vía Campesina pensamos que en este momento de disputa por la agroecología, es importante compartir avances en nuestros procesos para identificar, documentar, sistematizar y compartir los éxitos de la agroecología campesina. Con este cuadernillo, ofrecemos una selección inicial, una primera...
2015 - La Vía Campesina
Website
Region’s governments reviewing social protection for rural people
Rural women in post-Soviet countries may live longer than men, but on average they earn less, work more hours per day, receive smaller pensions or none at all, and are very likely to spend their elder years in poverty.
These are some of the findings in a recent FAO study of...
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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