Tag: rural women
Cultivating Resilience: Uniting against Climate Change for Africa’s Food Future
Africa & Middle East: Building resilience in food systems means increased attention, compassion and united action across Africa.
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Building the Resilience of Smallholder Women Farmers in India
Asia: Empowering smallholder women farmers in India in agriculture.
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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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#FillTheGap! Breadwinners and homemakers in Malawi
Africa & Middle East: Malidadi Chilongo learned to diversify her farm and invest in livestock, improving her family’s diet and investing in a back-up to sell if her crops fail because of extreme weather.
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#FillTheGap! Women bring home the bacon in Malawi
Africa & Middle East: By practising conservation farming techniques, Ethel Khundi produced almost three times more maize than she had done a year earlier, offsetting livestock losses to swine flu.
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#FillTheGap! Women in Burkina Faso warrant greater credit
Africa & Middle East: Fatima Nadinga was among those who had been typically blocked from crucial credit until a USAID-funded project implemented by non-profit CNFA trained women in the “warrantage” credit mechanism.
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#FillTheGap! Scaling up equality in Kenya
Africa & Middle East: With the help of IFDC, Beatrice Gichuru is setting the standard for equality in her area by proving that a woman can truly succeed with or without a husband.
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#FillTheGap! Empowering female agripreneurs in Zimbabwe
Africa & Middle East: Ruramiso Mashumba defied expectations by quickly growing her farming business in Zimbabwe, where women often work unpaid in agriculture.
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#FillTheGap! Equal rights are brewing in Colombia
Latin America & the Caribbean: Cocoa growers' leader Lidia Grueso has overcome gender bias to become a union manager, and is now leading the charge to improve access to credit for all cocoa farmers, including women.
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#FillTheGap! Sowing the seeds of equal access to resources in Uganda
Africa & Middle East: Nancy Adong was recruited as a community-based trainer in Northern Uganda and took charge of two farmer groups, winning her newfound confidence, leadership skills and respect.
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#FillTheGap! Esperanza brings hope for female leaders in Peru
Latin America & the Caribbean: Esperanza Dionisio Castillo rose up the ranks and became the only woman in the whole of the Junín region, Peru, to manage a cooperative, guiding the Pangoa Cooperative to unprecedented levels of success.
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#FillTheGap! Making queens in Mozambique
Africa & Middle East: Through an entrepreneur recruitment program in Mozambique, Josefina dos Santos Lourenço and 30 others were able to increase their incomes while bringing essential products and services to smallholder farmers.
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