Sierra Leone
BACKGROUND
The Government of Sierra Leone has in the past five years prioritized agriculture in its agenda for change and has again mainstreamed agriculture in the Agenda for Prosperity as a gateway for job creation for youths and women. This requires a lot more resources to achieve targets that will make agriculture a business rather than just for subsistence...
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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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Lead agency |
FAO |
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Launch workshop |
Date:27-28 November 2012 Location: Niamey, Niger |
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Participants: 27 women; 19 men (46... |
Liberia
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Lead agency |
UN Women |
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Launch workshop |
Stakeholders Forum held June, 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...
Read moreBurkina Faso
Linking agriculture with nutrition and improving the nutritional impact of agriculture programmes and interventions is the topic of a growing international agenda. The objective of this report is to assess to what extent this global agenda is actually translating into action at country...
Ghana
Agriculture can be an important engine of growth and poverty reduction. However, the sector is underperforming in many countries in part because women, who are often a crucial resource in agriculture and the rural economy, face constraints that reduce their productivity. Aggregate data show that women comprise about 43 percent of the agricultural labor force globally and in developing...
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Agriculture can be an important engine of growth and poverty reduction. However, the sector is underperforming in many countries in part because women, who are often a crucial resource in agriculture and the rural economy, face constraints that reduce their productivity. Aggregate data show that women comprise about 43 percent of the agricultural labor force globally and in developing...
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