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Sibol: Economic Empowerment for Young and Women Agriculturists Sibol aims primarily to promote the economic empowerment ofyoung and women farmers through (1) access to enablingtechnologies, support networks, and information channels, (2) skillsdevelopment on technology, agriculture, and entrepreneurship, and(3) support provision in developing successful business plans. It iswell-acknowledgedin development economics literature thatdevelopment begins with the economic empowerment of theagricultural sector. This holds trueparticularly in the Philippines,where agriculture employs almost a quarter of Filipinos despitecomprising only 10.2% of the country's GDP (ASEAN, 2020). Therise of vegetable prices vis-a-vis the wastage of vegetable suppliesamid the pandemic lockdowns in 2020 hasshown how thedisconnect between agricultural communities and economic centersthreatens to worsen the conditions not only in rural areas but alsoraise food prices, affecting the poor and marginalized the most. Butthe emergenceof efforts, particularly by young people, to reconnectagricultural communities with buyers in urban centers have shownpromise. Through patchwork efforts, vegetable produce which couldhave been wasted was sold through innovative means using digitaltechnologies, social networking and marketing, and socialentrepreneurship. Thus, an opportunity presents itself not only toadapt the agricultural sector to the realities of the New Normal, but also to reinvigorate the interest of young people to take upagriculture - a looming issue for rural communities as the averageage of farmers rise every year. Agricultural communities are someof the most disconnected in political discourse due to theireconomic vulnerability. The first step in raising their voice is toorganize and collectively act to find solutions toward their economicempowerment. Young people, with their technological savvy andvigor, and women, with their vital skills in productive work andcommunity management in agricultural communities, can herein bethe linchpins to ensure that agricultural communities can becomeresilient in the New Normal. Furthermore, supporting the economicempowerment of the young farmers can allow them to hurdle thebarriers of their lack of access to land ownership, equipment, andcapital. Economically empowering women farmers can also providethem with sufficient footing to break free from the shackles offinancial dependency in the household. With this, the Center forAgrarian Reform, Empowerment and Transformation (CARET, Inc.),together with Reboot Philippines and Roots Collective, hopes toimplement the project Sibol where young and women farmers canpromote the economic empowerment of their communities through:- Organizing Economic Service Programs (ESPs)within theirorganizations based on their community's resources and capacities- Establishing baseline digital access technologies and skills toallow their community better access amid the digital economy -Collectively determining their development trajectory throughfacilitated businessplanning - Strengthening their capacity to fulfilltheir development trajectory through skills development, linkageprograms, access to economic resources, organization growth andresilience and values formation. - Implementing their organizationalgrowth andeconomic services plans (with technical and networksupport provided by the project)

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Eastern and Southern African Farmers Forum-Uganda (ESAFF-Uganda) is part of a regional small scale farmers# coalition established in 2002 during the World Summit for Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg to bring together small scale farmers, pastoralists and traditional fisher folks at different levels into a social movements with a common aspirations and ensure learning <(>&<)> linkages. ESAFF- Uganda is a partner implementing Right to Food in Uganda with the role of working with small scale farmers, consortium members of R2F project and other like-minded organizations to push for the recognition of small scale farmers# voices by organizing farmers and support their participation in high level lobby meetings, campaigns, dialogues and policy meetings. ESAFF Uganda and Oxfam In Uganda piloted the Oxfam Meaningful Community Engagement tools in Large Scale Land Based Investments in Agriculture (MECoT- LSLBI) in Amuru district in 2017, with funding from Oxfam Pan African Team. Experience of piloting the LSLBI tools in agriculture in Amuru district coupled with the trend of land dispossession from small scale farmers by private and public large-scale land investors necessitate empowering communities with practical-innovative tools and approaches that help to position them to engage meaningfully throughout the investment processes and stages for a win-win engagement. Above all, the land rights of the poor need to be protected first by the landowners themselves and other concerned stakeholders, and thisis the rationale of scaling up the LSLBI tools inAmuria.

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Oxfam's GROW campaign works for the billions of us who eat food # and for the more than one billion poor men and women who grow it.Through our global campaign, we address inequality in the global food system. Our overall objective is that people living in poverty claim power in the way the world manages land, water, and climate change, so that they can grow or buy enough food to eat # now and in the future. We support local communities to claim back their power, earn a living income, and to grow or buy food by ensuring investments in rural people. By ensuring investments in rural people, we support them in overcoming the dramatic impacts of climate change on agriculture, allowing them to thrive. GROW focuses on change at national levels and on opportunities to achieve international impact. More specifically, by 2019 we aim for more governments, multilateral institutions and companies implementing policies that promote sustainable food production and consumption, while supporting those most vulnerable toadapt to climate change, and helpingcommunities# realise their rights to land with a particular focus on women who produce much of the world#s food. To ensure that theSustainable Development Goals, including zero hunger, become a reality, we need innovative ideas that hold a promise of a better future for many # not just a privileged few. We believe there are key factors that drive hunger and inequality: unfair distribution within value chains, insecure land rights, climate change, gender inequality and ever more young people desperate for opportunities leaving rural areas. Oxfam's GROW campaign tackles the key sources in the broken global food system by working to mobilise impacted communities and active consumers alike. Since the launch of the GROWcampaign in 2011 more than 10 million people have been reached through on- and offline campaign activities and a multitude of people has been reached through media coverage. We are proud of the achievements of GROW. We gave small-scale female farmers avoice; through the Behind the Brands campaign significant new commitments have been made by big food and beverage companies to improve social and environmental standards in their vast supply chains; we are proud of our contribution to keep climate finance, especially for adaptation and resilience, on the agenda of the global climate negotiations at COP21 in Paris; and we recently celebrated a land mark victory as the Constitutional Court in Colombia recognized the Land Rights of the indigenous community Cañamomo Lomaprieta and granted protection for ancestral mining activities. An overview of ourresults can be found on the interactive map. Oxfam is at the beginning of a new phase of the GROW campaign (2017 # 2020). Throughout the years, we have been actively updating our context analysis, testing drivers of change, reflecting on models of campaigning, addressing new key actors, and, exploring new alliances. Nonetheless, now more than ever we feel the need to increase our impact and change systemic drivers of inequality in the food system. In this document, we present three innovative work streams running until atleast 2020. 1. A new worldwide campaign addressing inequality in food value chains (expected launch October 2017) 2. The LandRightsNow campaign 3. Effective adaptation finance to support women farmers. These three projects have received seed funding from inter alia SIDA and we are currently looking for opportunities to up-scale them between 2017-2020 to reach our ultimate objectives. Wewant to note that this document does not present the future direction of the entire GROW campaign but presents three selected trajectories (2017 # 2020) where innovation is key.