Promoting women’s participation and leadership in producers’ organizations
Open online discussion hosted by FAO's TECA platform.
The objectives of this discussion are:
- To share experiences of POs dealing with women's inclusion, participation and leadership issues
- To share successful experiences of women's participation and leadership in POs and cooperatives
- To understand better issues faced by women producers in POs and cooperatives
- To identify ways of strengthening women's participation and leadership within POs
This discussion will start on Monday 23th June and last until 27th July, 2013.
See more here: http://teca.fao.org/discussion/promoting-women%E2%80%99s-participation-and-leadership-producers%E2%80%99-organizations
Topics:
The future of Family Farming: empowerment and equal rights for women and youth
In the context of the International Year of Family Farming, this discussion targets those active in family farming who have suggestions on how to improve livelihoods of female farmers and how to encourage youth to pursue family farming.
Social farming (also called care farming): an innovative approach for promoting women’s economic empowerment, decent rural employment and social inclusion. What works in developing countries?
Social farming (also called care farming) is an innovative approach for promoting women’s economic empowerment, rural employment and the social inclusion of vulnerable people. The aim of the discussion is to gather examples of the use of care farming in developing countries.
Focusing on Rural Women in a Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Framework
Rural women everywhere play a key role in supporting their households and communities in achieving food and nutrition security, generating income, and improving rural livelihoods and overall well-being. It's up to all of us to make sure that their role is well represented in the Post 2015 development agenda. How would you contribute?
Call for Articles - Gender equity in agricultural research
- Background – what was the drive behind the new development
- Description of how the new development works and how it is changing real lives
- Hurdles and challenges that were overcome
- Comments and experiences of ‘developers’ and users
- Limitations/constraints/future challenges
- Responses from relevant/significant bodies (e.g. partner organizations)
- What next in terms of development? What lessons have been learnt/can be transferred elsewhere?
What is the role of social relations and networks in household food security and nutrition?
The ability to access and consume nutritious food is to some extent an outcome of their membership and relationships with other members of society. This is especially true in times of crises. To identify and discuss success stories, challenges and way forward to achieving food and nutritional security, this discussion focuses on social relations and networks for food security and nutrition.
CFS side event - Transforming food systems: empowering women to deliver on Food Security and Nutrition
- The evidence showing how women’s and girls’ empowerment delivers on these outcomes
- The costs of failing to invest in women's roles in high-nutrient-value food chains and of ignoring women's triple work burden (household, reproductive and market)
- The enabling environment - policies, rights, laws and incentives to empower women in food systems to deliver food security and nutrition
Panelists include:
Lynn Brown, Senior Economist, World Bank/GenRD and SecureNutrition
Susan Carlson, Women’s Committee Facilitator, World Farmers’ Organization (WFO)
Susan Kaaria, Senior Gender Officer (Policy), Gender, Equity and Rural Employment Division, FAO
Stanlake Samkange, Director, Policy, Programme and Innovation Division, WFP
Topics:
Indigenous methods of food preparation: what is their impact on food security and nutrition?
Communities use knowledge that is passed from generation to generation to prepare their food. Each technique and has its very peculiar implications on the socio-economic dynamics of a typical rural household. Can we consider indigenous methods of food preparation as a viable means for achieving food security and nutrition in rural poor communities?
Gender and Agriculture: Inefficiencies, Segregation, and Low Productivity Traps
Women make essential contributions to agriculture in developing countries, where they constitute approximately 43 percent of the agricultural labor force. However, female farmers typically have lower output per unit of land and are much less likely to be active in commercial farming than their male...
Final study of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee on rural women and the right to food
The present study examines the right to food of rural women by underlining the international legal framework applicable to rural women, analysing the patterns of discrimination harming them, proposing strategies and policies for their legal protection and emphasizing good practices. The study has a...