Why Should Women be Empowered in Agriculture? Supporting women farmers would help hundreds of millions fight hunger, poverty and climate change. Growth in small-scale agriculture is two to four times more effective at reducing hunger and poverty than any other sector, and women farmers are playing a central role. Oxfam states: "About 80 percent of the world’s food is produced by small-scale farming. Women make up on average 43 percent of this agricultural labor in developing countries. … [Read more...]
Empowering Women in Agriculture is Critical
December 8, 2021 by Team Celebration
Filed Under: BUSINESS, WOMEN GENDER EQUITY ISSUES Tagged With: farmers, feeding families, female farmers, GMO, MICROFINANCE for women, women.
Ecuador, woman celebrating WFP project for women!
December 12, 2012 by Team Celebration
Our Information Officer in Ecuador, Gabriela Malo, did not expect that a phone call to Beatriz Caces to hear her story about the positive impact a WFP project was having on her and other women selling their vegetables to the school meals programme, would establish a link between them, in spite of living 200 kilometres apart. QUITO --I got Beatriz Caces’ phone number from the WFP sub office in Carchi. When I called her from the Country Office in Quito a while ago, I wanted to get in touch with … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Contributors, FEATURED, SOUTH AMERICA, WOMEN Taking ACTION Tagged With: A Celebration of Women, agriculture and women, América Elementary School, Beatriz Caces, celebrating WFP project, Ecuador, farmers’ association, female farmers, for women, Gregorio Chamorro Elementary School, Quito, South America, South American Women, woman, woman celebrating WFP project for women!, women farmers, women for women, world food shortages, “Chitán de Queles”, “Chitán de Queles” farmers’ association
PAKISTAN: Success Story of ‘young female farmers’
February 22, 2012 by Team Celebration
Young female farmers can make the difference: a success story from Pakistan I am a BA student working on agriculture (kitchen gardening) as a part-time job. I have acquired good experience in producing vegetables using indigenous techniques, seeds from my own plot, and compost from my own compost pits, minimizing the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. In this way, the vegetables produced are better tasting and healthy. People in my village prefer buying these … [Read more...]
Filed Under: ASIA, FEATURED, YOUTH of ACTION™ Tagged With: A Celebration of Women, enhance skills of COs about agriculture, farming, female farmers, girls, lahore, organic agriculture development, Pakistan, poultry and livestock development, social forestry, Success Story of 'young female farmers', youth, youth of action
