Gender in Agriculture Partnership

Transforming agriculture to empower women and deliver food, nutrition and income security
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Community of Sahel-Saharan States (CEN SAD)

Kenya

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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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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Egypt

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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Sierra Leone

Project Proposal on Gender Mainstreaming in Agriculture Forestry & Food Security

BACKGROUND

The Government of Sierra Leone has in the past five years prioritized agriculture in its agenda for change and has again mainstreamed agriculture in the Agenda for Prosperity as a gateway for job creation for youths and women.  This requires a lot more resources to achieve targets that will make agriculture a business rather than just for subsistence...

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Recent GAP initiatives (October 2013)

October 2013 

Developments in the Gender in Agriculture Partnership (GAP) 

To initiate the partnership, the GFAR Secretariat worked with the gender experts in various UN and other agencies to establish a programme of joint actions to address gender equity issues in agriculture, commissioning key reviews and case studies on engendering agricultural innovation...

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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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Liberia

Joint Programme Country Update: Liberia

 

Lead agency

UN Women

Launch workshop

Stakeholders Forum held June, 2013      ...

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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...

Read more

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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Ghana

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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