Sentences with phrase «if women farmers»

If women farmers had access to the same resources as men, more than 150 million additional people would have enough food to eat.

If women farmers had the same access to productive resources as men, they could increase their yields by 20 - 30 %.

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Even though resistance takes many different forms (against the MAI, towards a jubilee year in 2000, for the Tobin tax, seeking alternatives, etc.), and even if the struggles are specific in their aims (farmers, workers, indigenous or coloured people, citizens, ecologists or women, the urban poor, etc.) and though the various co-ordination groups are numerous (Peoples Power for the XXI Century in Asia, São Paulo Forum in Latin America, etc.), all of these have a common thread: they all work to highlight the unacceptable nature of the current economic system.

Sad as these incidents involving farmers and herdsmen are, I wonder what the result will be if half the newsprint and airtime devoted to this is used to draw attention to malaria which kills 300,000 Nigerians every year; the 88,000 malnourished children and the 230,000 malnourished, pregnant women in the northeast, a quarter of whom the UNICEF said would most likely not make it.

Mrs. Mumuni said the aspirants were to sign an undertaking with the women farmers as a commitment to meet some of their demands if each of them was elected to parliament.

Last Sunday at the farmer's market, a woman asked me if I knew what crayons were made from.

If you're interested in supporting women farmer leaders or donating, visit https://growahead.org/scholarships/.

Seriously, if we want to promote climate justice at the negotiations, we have to take some times to think about the living conditions of these women farmers.

If I had a nickel for every time that I have told the story of meeting the farmer on the prairie with wheat sticking out of his hair, or the woman in the Okanagan Valley who sold apples from her orchard on the road, or the fisherman in Nova Scotia who spoke to me with tears in his eyes about his life on the sea or the guy in the bar in Montreal who talked to me about his beloved Habs and the thousands of people in between that I have met on the road, I would be rich with money.