On the 2019 International Day of Rural Women, Landesa’s Shipra Deo explores how land rights are an essential element for overturning misperceptions about the role of women in society and on the farm.
In a workshop with a group of agronomists who work in agriculture extension in India, I ask the participants to draw the picture of a farmer with whom they work. All but one of them draw male figures.
La falta de gasolina está llevando al borde del colapso a la industria agrícola venezolana y amenaza con más hambre y malnutrición. Productores calculan que el área plantada con los principales cultivos del país, maíz y arroz, se reducirá un 50 por ciento este año.
By Chris Hufstader
After an audacious land grab by a foreign company, indigenous women in a remote Cambodian village struggle to regain their farms and sacred sites.
Sol Preng remembers vividly the day in 2012 when bulldozers unexpectedly arrived on her family farm.
“The company came and cleared away our cashew trees right before the harvest,” she says. “I lost four hectares of land and all my cashew trees.”
By Deborah Espinosa and Patrick Gallagher, USAID’s Land Technology Solutions Program
Persistent and pervasive gender inequality is a global development challenge that constrains economic growth, educational opportunities, and health outcomes. It jeopardizes food security and undermines poverty reduction strategies. The world over, some formal and many informal laws and customs operate to hinder women’s empowerment and thus their full potential as agents of economic and social change.
Por Raúl Conde
Son el eslabón más débil e invisible: mujeres y rurales, doble exclusión. Triple en el caso de ser inmigrante
As a human rights organisation, gender justice is a fundamental principle of our work, and we have long been conscious of, and sought to address, the barriers to effective participation in decision-making by women, as well as the other human rights violations they may face on account of their gender.
Por: Jorge Meza Robayo*
Representante de la FAO en Paraguay
La Asamblea de las Naciones Unidas dio el visto bueno a la Declaración sobre los derechos de los campesinos y otras personas que trabajan en las zonas rurales.
Este documento que reconoce la importancia de esta población, su aporte al desarrollo y su contribución para garantizar el derecho a una alimentación adecuada y al trabajo digno.
This week in Geneva, the Human Rights Council is expected to take a position on the follow-up to a draft Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other Persons Working in Rural Areas. Five years after the start of the negotiations, we are at a turning point.
