Tag: international women’s day
Tenure Security Can Empower Women Farmers and Increase Food Security
Latin America & the Caribbean: Increased tenure security for women farmers can lead to more diversified crop production and better food security, according to new research.
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How the Climate Crisis Affects Rural Women: A Conversation with Lauren Phillips
Global: Lauren Phillips, FAO’s Rural Transformation and Gender Equality Division, explains how the climate crisis impact women differently than men.
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Strengthening Potato Value Chains in Pakistan by Breaking Gender Stereotypes
Asia: A CABI-led project is changing women’s role in agriculture by helping them build technical knowledge and skills in potato value chains.
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Women Farmers in Tanzania Work in Unity to Grow Vegetables
Africa & Middle East: The Juhudi women farmers from Tanzania established a community garden to grow tomatoes and green vegetables with help from Farm Africa.
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Young, Rural, and Female: Why Agriculture Needs Girls
Global: Investing in rural girls is critical for solving global hunger.
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Women and Youth Take on “Man’s Crop” Coffee in Uganda
Africa & Middle East: Access to land and inputs can include women and youth in Uganda's coffee boom.
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#IWD2017 – 17 Programs Helping Women Feed the World
Global: Find out more about the fantastic work our supporters are doing to help women all over the world feed their families, communities and the world.
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Helping Women Play A Pivotal Role in the Food Value Chain
Africa & Middle East: Founder of Ojay Greene shares success stories of female farmers and offers advice to budding agripreneurs ahead of International Women's Day.
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Hearing Women Farmers Speak on #IWD2016
Global: Take a look at some of our female farmers in action, as they work to get women's voices heard in policy discussions around the world.
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Purchasing Pulses to Support Women Producers
Africa & Middle East: Senior Programme Adviser at World Food Program's Purchase for Progress explains the power of buying a bag of pulses from a female farmer.
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The Business of Bee Keeping in Botswana
Africa & Middle East: To celebrate International Women’s Day we get a young female entrepreneur's advice for starting up a small business.
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13 Empowering Stories of Women in Family Farming
Global: To celebrate the 2014 International Year of Family Farming, Farming First has curated a list of 13 inspiring stories of women’s empowerment as heads of rural family farms, from our 130+ supporter organisation base. It is the first in our brand new series of content mash ups. Women account for 60 to 80% of smallholder farmers […]
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