Sentences with phrase «women farmers in»

Lastly, we look at intensification through resource parity for women farmers in our women smallholders solution.

The encounter was organized by Action Aid Ghana and Sontaba NGOs assisting small scale women farmers in the three Northern Regions.

Women farmers in Bengal use more than 100 plants for green leafy vegetables.

In her book The Challenge for Africa she explains it by highlighting the dilemma of a woman farmer in Yaoundé, Cameroon, and through her, our collective challenge and opportunity.

Not exact matches

Networks from Canada and Quebec, representing labour unions; Indigenous, farmers, and migrant groups; environmentalists; women's organizations; international solidarity groups; student movements; and human rights organizations will join their American and Mexican counterparts at the historic Antiguo Palacio de Escuela de Medicina in Mexico City.

The organizations sent a joint letter to Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland outlining their shared principles and priorities for a new trade model rooted in principles of equity, the primacy of human rights — including the rights of Indigenous peoples, women and girls, workers, migrants, farmers, and communities — and social and ecological justice.

Through a new smallholder farmer loan initiative with the Inter-American Developmental Bank (IDB) directed toward a women - led coffee cooperative, and an expanded partnership with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) aimed at helping young coffee farmers in post-conflict zones build greater resiliency and expertise, Starbucks will help create opportunities in some of Colombia's most vulnerable coffee growing communities.

The four parables: the parable of the sower who went out to sow; the parable of the leaven in which a woman puts in three measures of flour till it was leavened; the parable of the mustard seed; and the parable of the farmer who sows and then waits day and night in anticipation of the harvest; these form one group.

According to a testimony at the Asian Women's Tribunal held in Bangkok in 1994, a group of women farmers had taken out a protest march to the developer of prawn farms, shouting «Don't take our land!&rWomen's Tribunal held in Bangkok in 1994, a group of women farmers had taken out a protest march to the developer of prawn farms, shouting «Don't take our land!&rwomen farmers had taken out a protest march to the developer of prawn farms, shouting «Don't take our land!»

Farmers, fisherfolk and indigenous people, especially women producers of food and other primary products suffer from the globalization in most Asian countries.

Some such experiences and actions can be seen in the successful action to re-conquer the earth by the farmers in Brazil or Madagascar, the initiatives for education and rural training of women in Senegal or in the exemplary battles of the South - Korean workers who demonstrated the possibility of constituting efficient inter-professional trade union organisations in the so - called emerging countries.

It is not surprising then that after an exhaustive study of the impact of the green revolution in five countries, Keith Griffin concluded that the transfer of capital - intensive, market - oriented technology not only had little positive effect on malnutrition, but actually increased the range of inequality, wiped out many subsistence farmers (usually women in most of the poorer countries), and plunged them further into destitution.

Over 80 % of the employees are women and they support hundreds of small - scale herbal tea farmers in their community.

Sure, he was a bit of a Bible - thumper, but he also supported women's suffrage, advocated for the rights of laborers and farmers, and so passionately opposed U.S. involvement in World War I that he resigned as Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

Globalization has resulted in gross human rights violations for millions of workers (particularly women workers), peasants and farmers, and indigenous communities.

He advised youths not to take monastic vows, for he was convinced that the works of members of religious orders are not more praiseworthy in the sight of God than are those of the farmer in his field and of the woman in her household duties.

Surely there were shepherds in town that day, some street women, perhaps even a tax collector or unlearned peasant farmers.

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.

These organisations are: The movement of landless farmer (MST) from Brazil, a co-ordination of Trade Unions from South Korea, a farmers movement from Burkina Faso (FENOP), a Women's, movement of Quebec and the Movement of the unemployed in France.

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This effort has led to 1,510 women out of 6,055 farmers (approximately 25 % in total) enrolling in the OFIS.

In addition, 1,395 women out of 5,637 total farmers have actively participated in the training prograIn addition, 1,395 women out of 5,637 total farmers have actively participated in the training prograin the training program.

Based on its own financial analyses and case studies, Root Capital's revised 18 - page scorecard places greater emphasis on providing farmers with agronomic assistance and including women in influential enterprise roles, each of which the group believes contributes to measurably greater financial return.

In addition to our struggles as women farmers, we heard many organisations share that women are leading the way in saving seeds and preserving genetic diversity in agriculture across our regioIn addition to our struggles as women farmers, we heard many organisations share that women are leading the way in saving seeds and preserving genetic diversity in agriculture across our regioin saving seeds and preserving genetic diversity in agriculture across our regioin agriculture across our region.

# 36 on Gourmet's list of 50 Women Game - Changers in Food is Severine von Tscharner Fleming — farmer, activist, and filmmaker...

Women farmers from «Kababaehang Nagtataglay ng Bihirang Lakas» (Women possessing extraordinary powers or strength) from Barangay Los Amigos, Tugbok District, Davao City are practicing FAITH (Food Always in The Home), which is made easier with the support from partner NGOs such as METSA Foundation and MASIPAG, and from the local government of Davao City, through its policy on Organic Agriculture.

In the indigenous Chatino region, these farmers, about half of them women, rely heavily on their coffee crop for their income.

Women cocoa farmers in Ghana improve their incomes using sustainable practices learned from the Rainforest Alliance.

We remain steadfast because, in addition to farmers, we also believe that no rice consumers, especially women and children, should be left behind.

IRRI remains steadfast because, in addition to farmers, «We also believe that no rice consumer should be left behind, especially women and children,» added Villegas.

The first Women of Australian Distilling dinner will be at Starward Distillery in Melbourne in October and is being organised in conjunction with Fully Booked Women, a network of female chefs, restaurateurs, coffee roasters, farmers and many other professionals in the field of food and drink.

Champion equality for women and people of color in leadership, and empower women farmers across the company's supply chain; and

Today, a protest campaign in front of Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) was held by hundreds of farmers and civil society supporters led by the National Women Farmers and Workers Association (NWFA) and Bangladesh Agricultural Farm Labour Federation (farmers and civil society supporters led by the National Women Farmers and Workers Association (NWFA) and Bangladesh Agricultural Farm Labour Federation (Farmers and Workers Association (NWFA) and Bangladesh Agricultural Farm Labour Federation (BAFLF).

Farmers, local governments, and businesses in the Peruvian Amazon are working to conserve forests, build climate resilience, and strengthen the role of women fFarmers, local governments, and businesses in the Peruvian Amazon are working to conserve forests, build climate resilience, and strengthen the role of women farmersfarmers.

The seed of a sorghum variety from KwaZulu / Natal was obtained at an agricultural show of women farmers from communities in the northern part of the province.

In Ghana, 39,496 farmers, including 10,846 women, received training in good agricultural practices for improved cocoa productioIn Ghana, 39,496 farmers, including 10,846 women, received training in good agricultural practices for improved cocoa productioin good agricultural practices for improved cocoa production.

Also on sale are items Sando brings in from his trips abroad, like bean pots made by a woman he met in Puebla — stuff that wouldn't be a good fit at a farmers» market stall.

Highlights of these 2025 goals include McCormick's commitments to: — Source 100 percent of branded iconic ingredients sustainably; — Improve the livelihoods of 90 percent of smallholder farmers who grow McCormick's iconic herbs and spices; — Champion equality for women and people of color in leadership, and empower women farmers across the company's supply chain; and — Reduce the company's environmental impact by lowering its carbon footprint, decreasing water use, reducing solid waste and developing sustainable packaging innovations.

Irit Tamir of OxFam America outlined seven investments the world needs to make to feed our growing populations, such as investing in women, supporting small - scale farmers and securing everyone's right to water.

I saw no part of me in these care - worn farmers, until I reached a picture of a group of women and one popped off the page, the only woman in the whole book wearing lipstick.

I know lots of men who are doing lots of things — working to make the world safer from nuclear weapons, helping poor farmers in Africa and Sudan increase their crops so they can feed their families, investigating fraud, fighting for justice... Oh, wait — that's not what Regnerus means; he means try getting them to woo a woman properly and commit and marry.

The company purchases ingredients directly from women cooperatives and indigenous farmers in Africa, paying above market prices to help improve the standard of living for those suppliers.

These were the first steps in a journey that took her to Wisconsin (where in 1983 she earned a Master of Science in Food Science from Wisconsin University), Kenya (where she completed a two - year assignment, from 1981 - 1983 with Winrock International working with limited - resource farmers) and California (where she earned her PhD in Microbiology from the University of California, Davis in 1994) before returning to Cornell CALS in 1994 as the first woman faculty member in the Department of Food Science.

«He will fight for our proud servicemen and women at Fort Drum, our dairy farmers in Lowville and our manufacturers in Plattsburgh.»

The woman was a successful cocoa farmer in the Brong Ahafo Region who owned many businesses in the region and beyond.

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.

The representative of the PPP aspirant, Fusieni Nuhu said Paa Kwesi Ndoum has released six tractors to provide services to farmers in the area and advised the women groups to take advantage of the facility and apply for to enjoy the services.

Representatives of the aspirants, who seemed not prepared for the encounter, digressed more on what their respective political parties will do for general farming in the country but not addressing the problems of the women farmers.

The farmers moved in family groups and stuck to themselves awhile before mixing with local hunter - gatherers, according to a study in 2015 that used ancient DNA to calculate the ratio of men to women in the farming groups.