Women’s contributions to rangeland cultivation in Tunisia and the effects upon their livelihoods of climate change are both policy blind spots. Despite women’s growing participation in rangeland management, an outcome at least in part of male-outmigration to urban areas and increased availability of nonfarming economic opportunities for men, women are...

La cooperativa está integrada por mujeres que buscan su empoderamiento económico, reconocimiento y visibilización en la actividad pesquera, defendiendo sus derechos, cultura e identidad con un compromiso ambiental. Como cooperativa de mujeres ellas tienen un espacio propio y realizan proyectos económicos sustentables a través de los cuales cuidan y rescatan los...

The HtDN complements the IFAD toolkits on Poverty targeting, gender equality and empowerment and the Land Tenure Toolkit. It builds on the work carried out by IFAD around the world and highlights pertinent issues and good practices on how to address issues of women’s tenure rights. The HtDN aims to provide guidance for country programme...

The 60th Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean will be held virtually from 23 to 25 February 2021. The meeting is being organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), as secretariat of the Conference,...

El equipo de género de la Oficina Regional de la FAO para América Latina y el Caribe ha considerado la necesidad de fortalecer las capacidades técnicas de gobiernos, sociedad civil e instituciones responsables de políticas, planes y programas de protección social para la integración efectiva del enfoque de género en...

Gender equality is a key to eliminating poverty and hunger, as it has been demonstrated by the FAO throughout its research worldwide. As part of the FAO efforts on generating evidence and knowledge, and in compliance with the FAO Policy on Gender Equality, the purpose of the Country Gender Assessment...

Sem recursos e “no meio do mato”, a fome assolava a vida de muitas famílias no assentamento Monjolinho, em Anastácio, na região oeste do estado. Isso em meados da década de 80, quando mulheres andavam cerca de 15 km para buscar leite para as crianças. E foi na dificuldade que as...

This article narrates the story of Movai Matombo, a 57-year-old woman smallholder farmer who began practicing agroecology in 2010. Matombo resides in the Shashe region of Mashava, Masvingo province, Zimbabwe, where she learnt about agroecology farming, a technique that produces a high yield while conserving the soil and the environment....

Los productores familiares son importantes elaboradores de alimentos artesanales, pero tienen problemas en su comercialización, por lo que surge la necesidad de mejorar dicho proceso con estrategias apropiadas. Estudios previos del equipo de la Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto en la región, identificaron problemas en aspectos como calidad e inocuidad,...

This publication presents ten scalable intercultural collaboration experiences that demonstrate the importance, efficiency and effectiveness of working hand in hand with men, women and youth of indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean in the search for practical solutions developed from the synergy between ancestral knowledge and...

Malnutrition is a major global challenge, not least in the parts of the world that also suffer from poverty. At the same time, the climate crisis and other environmental changes disproportionately affect people in the Global South. Scaling up agroforestry can contribute to food and nutrition security, while contributing to...

The area of Bamyan in central Afghanistan is located right in the middle of what was known as the Silk Road and used to be a strategic resting point for travellers and merchants. It was meeting point of cultures and once a hub of Buddhism, but today it is more...

An agroecology project from Tanzania found significant improvements in the diversity of children’s diets and food security for households after farmers learned about sustainable crop-growing methods, gender equity, nutrition and climate change from peer mentors. The investigator of the project said, “We found that this intervention approach of combining agroecology...

Cozinhando Agendas Políticas – Guia Feminista Sobre o Direito à Alimentação e à Nutrição das Mulheres Rurais oferece a essas mulheres – pertencentes ou não a organizações locais ou nacionais – orientações práticas para a construção coletiva de estratégias e ações transformadoras com ênfase nesse direito fundamental, conhecido pela sigla Dhana,...

Esta Guía Metodológica presenta un paso a paso sobre por qué y cómo utilizar los Cuadernos Agroecológicos. Estamos construyendo juntas/os caminos e instrumentos que nos permitan mostrar y conocer/sistematizar la contribución (económica, ecológica, social y cultural) de la mujer rural a la economía familiar, a la seguridad y soberanía alimentaria, a la agroecología y a la vida....

Esta maravilloso taller te va ayudar a saber qué darle de comer a tus gallinas, cómo saber si está poniendo huevos, cómo hacer sus bebederos de forma fácil y práctica, además de que conocerás nuestra increíble Granja Regenerativa, donde producimos el huevo que te ofrecemos en Vía Orgánica

L’article présente un état des lieux des principaux enjeux à l’intersection du genre, de l’agriculture familiale et des changements climatiques. Il analyse ensuite les réponses apportées par l’aide au développement, et propose les priorités en termes de justice climatique pour les femmes rurales du sud.

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...

A report by the Malabo Montpellier Panel calling on policymakers to rethink and reorient African food systems. Drawing upon the experience of four countries – Ghana, Malawi, Morocco and Rwanda – the report Connecting the Dots: Policy Innovations for Food Systems Transformation in Africa presents five recommendations to elevate policymaking...

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...