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Social protection and the empowerment of rural women in Africa
With regard to genderdifferentiated impacts on child-specific outcomes, in Lesotho the programme had a strong positive impact on school enrolment and time spent in school (mainly driven by girls) and on a reduction of farm work (mainly driven by boys) for children aged 13–17. These gendered outcomes were also influenced...
Benin - Lesotho - Liberia - Rwanda - Uganda - Zambia
2016 - International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG)
Libro
Tailoring rural advisory services for family farms
Rural advisory services (RAS) are increasingly recognized as critical to agricultural and rural development. RAS work with farmers and other important stakeholders in rural economies. They provide rural communities with a wide range of skills and knowledge, and facilitate interactions among the different actors to help them access support and...
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Artículo de blog
La revolución estancada de las mujeres en la agricultura
Desde FAO Argentina trabajamos junto a la Unidad para el Cambio Rural (UCAR) dependiente del Ministerio de Agroindustria de la Nación, para sensibilizar sobre la importancia del empoderamiento de las mujeres rurales y visibilizar sus problemáticas y necesidades.
En esta nota entrevistamos a la técnica especialista en género del equipo de la...
Argentina
2016 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Artículo de boletín informativo
Engaging women in family farming to eradicate hunger
Despite the potential of the agricultural sector, many regions of Uganda still suffer from hunger. As everywhere, the serious problem of hunger is linked to climate change, unequal resource allocation, illiteracy, attitude towards farming and poor policy implementation. One of the root causes is also the uneven access of women...
Uganda
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Vídeo
Organizações femininas do RN viram exemplo para o Mercosul
El intercambio de Promoción de la autonomía y la igualdad de las mujeres rurales reunió a representantes de siete países en Río Grande do Norte. El encuentro está promovido por la REAF y financiado por el Ministerio de Desarrollo Agrario.
Brazil
2016 - Reunión Especializada
Artículo de revista especializada
Fabrication d’aliment du bétail issue de la cueillette de gousses de Piliostigma reticulatum : une opportunité pour les femmes rurales burkinabé
Les gousses de l’arbre fourrager de Piliostigma reticulatum sont très utilisées au Burkina Faso. Comme peu de données existent sur cette activité, une enquête a été conduite en zone nord-soudanienne auprès de 90 personnes. Les résultats montrent que la collecte et la transformation des gousses sont menées par des femmes...
Burkina Faso
2016 - Centre national de la recherche scientifique et technologique (Burkina Faso)
Vídeo
West African women defend traditional palm oil
In the last century, industrial oil palm plantations expanded around the world, first in Asia, then in Latin America. The development of high-yielding oil palms and new processing techniques—which transformed the traditionally viscous red liquid into a colourless, odourless oil suitable for global markets—made oil palm plantations a lucrative investment....
Benin
2016 - GRAIN
Sitio web
El clima está cambiando y nos estamos adaptando
El Programa Mundial de Alimentos en Ecuador, el Ministerio de Medio Ambiente (MAE), en coordinación con el Ministerio de Agricultura, Ganadería, Acuicultura y Pesca (MAGAP), trabajan junto a los gobiernos locales desde el 2011 para mejorar la resiliencia de las comunidades frente a los efectos adversos del cambio climático para...
Ecuador
2016 - Programa Mundial de Alimentos (PMA Ecuador)
Hoja informativa
South Africa implements a national strategy to support community seed banks
Farmers have traditionally maintained local seeds, and through them biodiversity, using indigenous knowledge passed through generations. Farmers select, plant, harvest, clean, and store seeds to feed their families today and in the future. They also exchange and share seeds with their neighbors, friends, and relatives. However, these traditional practices are...
South Africa
2016 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Documento/nota de orientación
Subregional strategy and action plan 2016 - 2017
Resilient Livelihoods for Agriculture, Food Security and Nutrition in Countries Affected by the Syria Crisis
With the intensification of the crisis, food insecurity and poverty have drastically increased across all of Syria. At the same time, the crisis continues to affect the national economic and social balance in countries neighbouring Syria. The massive influx of refugees is exerting unprecedented pressure on host countries and communities, which...
Syrian Arab Republic
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Boletín informativo
Boletín de agricultura familiar para América Latina y El Caribe, julio-diciembre 2016
América Latina y el Caribe constituye un amplio muestrario de casos exitosos y lecciones aprendidas en tal sentido, y es que ha sabido introducir una visión integradora en su determinación por concebir a la agricultura familiar como un ente transformador y no como un sujeto de beneficencia.
En los últimos años...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Chile - Colombia - Dominican Republic
2016 - Organización de la Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Documento/nota de orientación
“Akleh” – Community Kitchen
Over a period of 5 months, the Food Heritage Foundation (FHF) team worked on rehabilitating and equipping the foundation’s kitchen at Zico House – Spears, partnering with small producers in rural areas in order to secure a regular supply of high-quality raw ingredients to the kitchen and contacting women cooks...
Lebanon
2016 - Environmental and Sustainable Development Unit of the American University of Beirut (ESDU -AUB)
Artículo de blog
Helping women realize full potential in farming and science
Agriculture is an engine of growth for rural communities, particularly in the developing world. It has also proven to be an especially viable tool for women to lift themselves out of poverty. Women in developing countries rely heavily on the income they earn from agriculture-related activities to provide for their...
Uzbekistan
2016 - International Centre for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA)
Boletín informativo
Bulletin d’Information du bureau de la FAO en Mauritanie. N°1, Mai 2016
Dans le cadre du renforcement de la résilience à travers l’amélioration des moyens d’existence des communautés pastorales, la FAO met en œuvre, depuis 2014, une activité de production locale et d’utilisation de Blocs Multi-nutritionnels (BMNs) dans ses zones d’intervention notamment dans les Wilayas du Trarza, Brakna, Gorgol et Assaba. Dans...
Mauritania
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Boletín informativo
Dimitra Newsletter: Rural women’s empowerment and collective action
Just one year ago, world leaders committed to working towards the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) designed to change the course of the 21st century and address challenges such as poverty, inequality, climate change, education, etc. All these objectives are inextricably linked, and the success of one often depends on...
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Artículo de revista
Perspectives: Strengthening people’s knowledge
For the past half century agricultural innovation has denied a voice to the many groups who work outside the profession of science – farmers, food providers, women and the urban poor. The value of their expertise gained through practical experience must be recognised in the production and validation of knowledge....
India - Mali
2016 - ILEIA - centre for learning on sustainable agriculture
Artículo de revista
FENOP INFO - le magazine du monde rural burkinabé
N° 024 de Janvier - Février - Mars 2016
Cette année le 8 mars a eu un accent particulier. Et cela pour deux raisons.
La première, les autorités ont placé la commémoration sous le thème
«Entrepreneuriat agricole des femmes : obstacles, défis et perspectives». Elles
sont allées plus loin que le thème de la journée internationale qui est «Planète
50-50 d’ici 2030 :...
Burkina Faso
2016 - Fédération Nationale des Organisations Paysannes (FENOP)
Artículo de blog
FAO and India’s SEWA join efforts to empower rural women and youth
New agreement aims to ensure capacity development, farmers’ access to productive resources, knowledge exchange.
India's Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA) and FAO are strengthening their collaboration to boost rural development and reduce poverty in Asia and Africa via local initiatives focused on empowering rural women and youth.
Italy
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Artículo de blog
Aromas que marcan la vida de las mujeres rurales
En el marco de la campaña Mujeres Rurales entrevistamos a Marisa Elizabeth Boschetti, responsable del área de la Mujer en la Confederación de Productores Familiares del Mercosur (COPROFAM) y Coordinadora Nacional de Lechería de FAA (Federación Agraria Argentina).
Nacida y residente en Alicia, esta agricultora argentina de 44 años hace mil malabares para...
Argentina
2016 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Libro
Potentially Important Food Plants of Uganda
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...
Uganda
2016 - Food Plant Solutions
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