Gender in Agriculture Partnership

Transforming agriculture to empower women and deliver food, nutrition and income security
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central America

Nicaragua

Development experts these days will, to a man and woman, insist that we need to do more to empower (poor) women in developing countries. A particularly popular target are the women who grow most of the food their families and communities, and their cities and nations, are consuming. Such ‘gender focus’ is all the rage in agricultural research for development circles.

So far, so good,...

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Pushing the gender agenda forward

As the world celebrates the International day of Rural women, the CGIAR research program on livestock and fish continues to highlight the gender agenda. The program’s gender strategy operates along a...

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Guatemala

Joint Programme Country Update: Guatemala

 

Lead agency

World Food Programme

Launch workshop

Date: December 7, 2012

Location: Salón Independencia Obelisco, Hotel Camino Real, Guatemala City....

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Recent GAP initiatives (October 2013)

October 2013 

Developments in the Gender in Agriculture Partnership (GAP) 

To initiate the partnership, the GFAR Secretariat worked with the gender experts in various UN and other agencies to establish a programme of joint actions to address gender equity issues in agriculture, commissioning key reviews and case studies on engendering agricultural innovation...

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