The newsletter was produced by the Zimbabwe Land and Agrarian Network (ZiLAN) which was established in 2012 brings together non-governmental organisations (NGOs) working on land and agrarian issues. Membership of the Network comprises organisations involved in research and policy analysis; NGOs working with farmers; farmers’ representative organisations; women’s and youth...

To support the empowerment of South Sudanese refugees, FAO has focused on supporting income-generating and agricultural activities; 7 000 farming tools (hoes, rakes, sprayers, watering cans and wheelbarrows) and 80 kg of vegetable seeds (amaranth, cabbage, eggplant, okra and tomato) were distributed. 

Mulheres rurais, mulheres com direitos! Esse é o nome da campanha que será lançada hoje em Brasília com o objetivo de empoderar essas trabalhadoras que, apesar de fundamentais na dinâmica camponesa, ainda não são devidamente valorizadas, nem tampouco remuneradas na proporção do esforço que empreendem em nome de um desenvolvimento...

The Common Agricultural Policy, particularly in its second pillar, contains measures and resources to improve gender equality and women’s access to work and economic activity. The gender equality gap is wider in rural areas than in cities. More and more women are finding empowerment through agriculture. In turn, they guarantee the survival of...

La Via Campesina International Conferences are the highest-level space for proposing and making decisions within the movement. From July 16th to 24th, 2017, La Via Campesina will gather in Derio, Biskaia in the Basque Country to re-affirm the commitment of member organizations to build a common path towards food sovereignty...

A importância do enfoque de gênero para a gestão de riscos de desastres ambientais e mudanças climáticas esteve em foco nas estratégias discutidas durante uma reunião técnica que aconteceu dias 22 e 23 de fevereiro, no escritório regional da Organização das Nações Unidas para a Alimentação e a Agricultura (FAO)...

Every three years, the organic sector comes together at the Organic World Congress (OWC), the world’s largest and most significant organic gathering, to discuss and deliberate issues of the day. The OWC is an unique opportunity to share experiences, innovations and knowledge about organics and also take part in the...

Nos arredores da grande São Paulo, na área rural do distrito de Parelheiros, uma mulher começou a trabalhar de forma tímida com o manuseio da terra. Vinte anos se passaram e ela é hoje a responsável pela existência de uma agrofloresta, que fica há cerca de noventa quilômetros do centro...

El feminismo ha avanzado mucho en reflexionar, que ya no podemos seguir hablando de las mujeres como un “grupo homogéneo víctimas pasivas de la opresión”, como bien señala la autora feminista post colonialista Mohanty. Ciertamente, no podemos. Sin embargo, sí podemos seguir argumentando que el patriarcado nos alcanza a todas,...

BBC 100 Women names 100 influential and inspirational women around the world every year. In 2017, we're challenging them to tackle four of the biggest problems facing women today - the glass ceiling, female illiteracy, harassment in public spaces and sexism in sport. With your help, they'll be coming up with real-life...

In 2006, the Government of Malawi initiated a Social Cash Transfer Programme (SCTP), which it called Mtukula Pakhomo (‘Lifting up Families’). Malawi’s SCTP is an unconditional cash transfer programme designed to reduce poverty and hunger, increase school enrolment and attendance and improve the health, nutrition, protection and well-being of children...

The agricultural sector is one of the main contributors to economic growth and sustainable development in ECOWAS member countries. Women are driving forces for agricultural development, food security and nutrition in the region. They represent an important percentage of the agricultural labour force. They are the frontline nutrition care givers...

Sylvia Kuria, an organic farmer from Kenya, shares the story of her organic farm."I’ve got so many reports where they say, you know, your kale, your spinach, your carrots are so sweet. I tell them it’s because they are just growing in the natural way that they were supposed to...

Women are more likely to be food insecure than men in every region of the world, according to FAO’s latest report on the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2017. The report, which was released earlier this month, is the result of a collaboration between the Food and...

Video que muestra como con recursos y conocimientos locales han logrado un incremento de la producción agroecológica del cacao, menteniendo el equilibrio con la naturaleza y su biodiversidad. Esta experiencia ha abierto un sendero para el desarrollo que promueve la identidad local, su inclusión y el arraigo generando una cultura de...

The objective of the assessment is to analyse the agricultural and rural sector of Zimbabwe from a gender perspective at the macro (policy), meso (institutional) and micro (community and household) levels in order to identify gender inequalities in access to critical productive resources, assets, services and opportunities. In particular, the...

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...

This one pager summarizes a study on the programming approach adopted in Niger to implement food purchases for food assistance and to provide procurement preferential treatment to small-scale family farming food outputs. The study provides a detailed description of the selection of farmers, discusses the main constrains faced in a...

In Nicaragua, gender analysis in value chains is usually restricted to a study of men and women as producers or workers within the chain itself. This overlooks many relevant dimensions of gender struggles. We therefore propose a gender analysis in value chains that pays attention to the interrelation of the...

Farming organically, using indigenous crops, can contribute to food security and be part of a climate change solution.In this video, organic farmers in Kenya share their experiences with drought, and the benefits organic farming provides for them to building healthy soils and continue producing food.