Gender in Agriculture Partnership

Transforming agriculture to empower women and deliver food, nutrition and income security
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land-locked developing country (LLDC)

Ethiopia

Development experts these days will, to a man and woman, insist that we need to do more to empower (poor) women in developing countries. A particularly popular target are the women who grow most of the food their families and communities, and their cities and nations, are consuming. Such ‘gender focus’ is all the rage in agricultural research for development circles.

So far, so good,...

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Joint Programme Country Update: Ethiopia

Lead agency

IFAD - UN Women

Launch workshop

 The Ethiopian team has not yet launched the consultative workshop, since there is an on-going Joint Programme (GEWE) and the UNDAF cycle 2012-2015 has already...

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Uganda

Development experts these days will, to a man and woman, insist that we need to do more to empower (poor) women in developing countries. A particularly popular target are the women who grow most of the food their families and communities, and their cities and nations, are consuming. Such ‘gender focus’ is all the rage in agricultural research for development circles.

So far, so good,...

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Nepal

Lead agency

UN Women

National Consultative Workshop

Date:      29-30 November 2012                      Location: Kathmandu

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Rwanda

Joint Programme Country Update: Rwanda

 

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Lead agency

WFP

Launch workshop

Date: 16th May, 2013                                Location: Umubano Hotel, Kigali, Rwanda

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the Niger

Joint Programme Country Update: Niger

 

Lead agency

FAO

Launch workshop

Date:27-28 November 2012             Location: Niamey, Niger

Participants: 27 women; 19 men (46...

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Kyrgyzstan

Joint Programme Country Update: Kyrgyzstan

 

Lead agency

UN Women

Launch workshop

Date: 22 November 2012                              Location: Bishkek...

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Afghanistan

An initiative promoting dairy goat production is empowering rural women, alleviating poverty, and strengthening livelihoods within some of Afghanistan’s poorest communities. Targeting 1350 poor women in Baghlan and Nangrahar provinces, the project has facilitated access to over 1500 healthy goats, delivered training, and provided technical support to raise productivity and generate positive...

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Burkina Faso

SOWING SEEDS OF GOOD NUTRITION - Making Agricultural Policies Deliver Better Nutrition

Linking agriculture with nutrition and improving the nutritional impact of agriculture programmes and interventions is the topic of a growing international agenda. The objective of this report is to assess to what extent this global agenda is actually translating into action at country...

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Mali

Increasing the Productivity and Empowerment of Women Smallholder Farmers

Agriculture can be an important engine of growth and poverty reduction. However, the sector is underperforming in many countries in part because women, who are often a crucial resource in agriculture and the rural economy, face constraints that reduce their productivity. Aggregate data show that women comprise about 43 percent of the agricultural labor force globally and in developing...

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