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Women Fight for Food Security as they Conserve Biodiversity: Mwingi, Kenya, CASE STUDY
by: Floridah Kagendo, WEDO CBD COP11 Representative/ Crop Development Officer, Ministry of Agriculture, Kenya
Over many generations, women have been charged with the responsibility of feeding their families with nutritionally rich and balanced foods. Nature has dutifully provided these foods, but over time, the production has been declining. Women collect firewood in the forests, draw water from streams whose source is the forest and rely heavily on the same forests to provide food for their …
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Ten experts, ten essays, one topic: Making the food system work for women
[ November 19, 2012 to November 30, 2012. ]
NEW YORK (November 12, 2012)– Join Oxfam’s global online policy discussion from November 19-30, 2012! Oxfam will be hosting an online discussion about how to achieve food justice for women. The purpose is to reframe the discourse on food security from the perspective of women’s rights and women’s agency. Rather than critique the current state of affairs, the discussion will seek to generate bold proposals for building a collective agenda to advance gender justice …
The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2011 : How does international price volatility affect domestic economies and food security?
“This edition of The State of Food Insecurity in the World focuses on food price volatility and high food prices, which are likely to continue in the years ahead. Indeed, the Group of Twenty (G20) Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors has become actively engaged in finding cost-effective ways to reduce price volatility and mitigate its effects when it does occur. By using previously unavailable data sources and studies, this report goes beyond the global-scale analyses to find out what happened on the domestic markets where poor people buy and sell their food in order to draw policy relevant lessons from the world food crisis of 2006–08.”
Women Keen to Ease Greenhouse Effect on Their Ability to Provide
Windhoek, Namibia, July 4th, 2011-Original article published by IPS News.
WINDHOEK, Jul 4, 2011 (IPS) – A successful entrepreneurial programme in the north of Namibia that infuses farming practices with gender-responsive environmentalism may serve as a model for other countries on the African continent.
FAO’s 3rd World Food Summit
[ November 1, 2009 to November 30, 2009. November 1, 2009 to November 30, 2009. November 1, 2009 to November 30, 2009. ]
November 2009, Rome, Italy: The FAO’s will hold it’s 3rd World Food Summit to pressure governments and institutions that a better food and agricultural system must support self-sufficiency and local needs, withstand and mitigate climate change, maintain biodiversity and sustainability, and improve women’s economic and food security. http://www.un-ngls.org/spip.php?article1399
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