By: Nita Bhalla
Date: March 18th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
NEW DELHI, March 18 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - For as long as she can remember, Panchi Sahariya and those in her tribal community in central India have been threatened, harassed, beaten and even arrested for living on
By: Kinshu Dang
Date: August 5th 2016
Source: NDTV Every Life Counts
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
By: Caroline Wambui
Tabitha Karimi could barely hide her delight at the thought of a bumper harvest as she took part in training on how to farm with crops specially adapted to the region, after many years of poor harvests in Tharaka in eastern Kenya.
By: Agencies
Date: January 19th 2016
Source: Citizen Digital
Mshindi Mayenga, a hairdresser in the Tanzanian capital, had a vision to expand her business.
She wanted to transform her small salon from a dilapidated rented room into a larger ‘main street’ enterprise, but every time she applied
By: Kavitha Iyer
Date: March 26th 2016
Source: Indian Express
In Marathwada’s worst-hit districts of Beed, Osmanabad and Latur, households now have an uncompromising priority list of expenses as an economy hit by years of near-total crop failure goes into a tailspin.
Date: August 26, 2016
Source: Action Aid press release
In Malawi, women’s land rights are often governed by customary laws, which are unwritten and lead to the marginalisation of women. Incredibly, women own just 1% of Africa’s land. In the village of Chikojo in Malawi, Maureen Adson is taking a
Date: 9 December 2016
Source: Forest Peoples Programme
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With limited land, access to it has been a prevailing issue which leads to human rights violations to farmers, and to the disadvantaged women and indigenous peoples.
By: Astrid Zweynert
Date: April 15th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
OXFORD, England, April 15 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Laws giving men and women equal rights to land are not enough to ensure equality if they are not accompanied by efforts to empower and educate women, said the head
Date: September 3rd 2016
Source: The News Pakistan
Women in parts of conflict-hit central and eastern India are more vulnerable to violence and eviction from their land because a decades-long insurgency has made it harder for them to claim equal land rights, according to a new study.
Date: January 2nd 2017
Source: Food Tank
To mark world water day, we look at how simple technology to harvest water in semi-arid areas has transformed prospects for Kenyan women
It’s mid-morning and the sun is blazing. It is so hot that germinating seeds struggle to grow.
In Moi Ndabi, about 44km (27 miles) south of Kenya’s