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18 October 2017
Launtina Mukahirwa crosses the border every morning to sell isambaza fish from Lake Kivu in the border market of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Launtina is a small-scale cross-border trader with an experience of more than ten years under her cooperative CODEPEC. However, she is not earning much from her...
Launtina Mukahirwa crosses the border every morning to sell isambaza fish from Lake Kivu in the border market of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Launtina is a small-scale cross-border trader with an experience of more than ten years under her cooperative CODEPEC. However, she is not earning much from her...
16 October 2017
Uwimana Annonciata wakes up every day at 3am to go irrigate her crops with water from Yanze River, she is afraid that if she doesn’t get the water early she won’t be allowed to use it. She is also avoiding conflict with other farmers over water from the River. Annonciata’s district, Rulindo, is upstream in the Yanze River that supplies water to Kigali. The Yanze watershed is...
Uwimana Annonciata wakes up every day at 3am to go irrigate her crops with water from Yanze River, she is afraid that if she doesn’t get the water early she won’t be allowed to use it. She is also avoiding conflict with other farmers over water from the River. Annonciata’s district, Rulindo, is upstream in the Yanze River that supplies water to Kigali. The Yanze watershed is...
04 October 2017
Access to reliable and affordable energy is fundamental in achieving economic development, and poverty reduction. It is also a vital input that underpins food security by enabling the various processes that are used to produce, process and transport food from the field to the consumer. However, depending on the type...
Access to reliable and affordable energy is fundamental in achieving economic development, and poverty reduction. It is also a vital input that underpins food security by enabling the various processes that are used to produce, process and transport food from the field to the consumer. However, depending on the type...
10 September 2017
A year had passed after completing secondary school and she had not found a job. Jeanne Aurore Muneza, now a 27 year old couldn not continue to university because her parents were poor. In fact, with that level of education in her rural area, her parents expected her to be...
A year had passed after completing secondary school and she had not found a job. Jeanne Aurore Muneza, now a 27 year old couldn not continue to university because her parents were poor. In fact, with that level of education in her rural area, her parents expected her to be...
09 September 2017
Empowering Women is empowering a Sustainable Society. Economic empowerment is a key step in making women full participants in their communities, through which they can contribute to creating jobs and social and environmental capital. FAO and three other UN agencies (WFP IFAD and UN Women) under the ONE UN initiative, delivering...
Empowering Women is empowering a Sustainable Society. Economic empowerment is a key step in making women full participants in their communities, through which they can contribute to creating jobs and social and environmental capital. FAO and three other UN agencies (WFP IFAD and UN Women) under the ONE UN initiative, delivering...
