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One almost dare not enter a more primitive shed by Mika Rottenberg, where a collective of women farmers on video is molding cheese — or perhaps someone else's liquid remains.

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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.

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.

During the plenaries Moises Quispe, speaking on behalf of INOFO members from 5 continents, illustrated the actions organic farmers» organizations undertake to secure the future of family farming namely working with youth, women and value chains for healthy systems.

# 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.

This association of over 400 women coffee farmers came together to solve issues including lack of capital to use on their farms and to create an equitable working relationship with their husbands.

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.

The governor consequently listed the objectives for the 2018 budget to include, intensifying efforts on independent revenue initiatives, massive infrastructural development, wealth creation through empowerment of youths, artisans, farmers and market women; and enhancing the community development through improved collaboration with communities, among others.

Anambra State Governor, Mr. Peter Obi, on Thursday at the International Women Development Centre, Awka flagged off the distribution of N1.2 billion credit facilities to farmers...

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.

Sometimes I write about how my farmer and I broke into an old woman's house on our wedding night.

I'm 25 I'm 5» 6 145 lbs short brown hair brown eyes got a farmers tan I'm stocky I'm a down to earth guy I like hunting fishing and camping i know how to treat a woman right show her respect and hopefully I find a nice older lady on here to get to know

It's not easy being single in Farmers Branch - but it's a cinch meeting single men and single women on Match.com.

Be it cooking a homemade Italian dinner on his rooftop, planning a rollerblading day along the beach or bringing her fresh flowers from the farmers market, these plans impress women.

None of the women on farmers say they wanted to meet a man with rural roots which i found rather odd.

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The pictures might include a woman pumping gas, a man working on an assembly line, an automobile salesman, a child in a cafeteria line, a farmer, and so on.

She has worked with the MSU Center for Regional Food Systems as the Underserved Farmer Development Specialist where she provided technical assistance to underserved farming groups such as farmers of color, women farmers and beginning farmers as well as developed research agendas focused on better supporting these populations.

FEMME TO FARM For those seeking to connect with nature on a professional level, Lisa Kivirist's Soil Sisters: A Toolkit for Women Farmers takes some guesswork out of forging a life from the land.

After more than 30 years of helping Kenyan women improve their lives and communities by growing trees on farmland, the Green Belt Movement (GBM) has learned a lot about how farmers can benefit each other.

We've had farmers and their cow herds passing by the front gate, a guy with a horse and cart gave us a lift to town, and the woman next door brought over a breakfast of rice and beans cooked on a traditional open fire.

De Souza's presentation provides a useful snapshot of what lies behind all the digits in a number like 7 billion, so I invited him to send a «Your Dot» piece providing more detail on this farmer, Birhane Fikade, a woman with 11 children, one of whom was adopted, who had gained control of her fertility (late in the game, for sure) and was able to put her extra energy into improving farming methods in her community.

Africa has long been a continent of small farmers, half of them women, raising maize with no fertilizer, pesticide or irrigation, on a tiny plot with a hoe.

I meet urban farmers who teach women from a homeless shelter and inner - city kids to grow healthy food on remediated vacant lots; advocates for sustainable transportation who tirelessly attend hearings and planning meetings; members of community land trusts that provide affordable housing; and conservation land trusts that preserve ecosystems and habitats acre by acre, stream by stream.

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This is articulated in three statements of purpose: to support innovative approaches to helping smallholder producers — both women and men — build their resilience to climate change; to help smallholder farmers take advantage of available mitigation incentives and funding; and to inform a more coherent dialogue on climate change, rural development, agriculture and food security.

Social Justice and Environment Preservation (achieving the Millennium Development Goals with food, water, and energy security; sustainable economic development; non-intensive agriculture; education on climate change and environment to inform and change behavior; public health; mental health; support for small - scale farmers, women and children; rights of small - island and coastal peoples; sustainable forestry; conservation; humane treatment of animals, avoiding species extinction, maintaining biodiversity).

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Across Africa, land grabs are exacerbating food insecurity on a continent where women farmers account for up to 80 percent of food production.

(https://www.24hoursofreality.org/) In Ghana, women farmers produce some 70 percent of subsistence crops, giving many a ground - level perspective on the impacts of climate change.

Govind Kelkar, senior advisor at Landesa and senior technical advisor at ENERGIA, an international NGO focused on gender and energy, told pv magazine about a national subsidy in India allowing women farmers access to discounted agricultural equipment.

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Denise O'Brien: organic farmer, founder of Women, Food, and Agriculture Network (WFAN); represented the interests of women in agriculture at the World Conference on Women in Beijing, China in 1995; organized a rural women's workshop for the 1996 World Food Summit in Rome, Italy; received nearly a half million votes in her 2006 bid to become Iowa's Secretary of AgriculWomen, Food, and Agriculture Network (WFAN); represented the interests of women in agriculture at the World Conference on Women in Beijing, China in 1995; organized a rural women's workshop for the 1996 World Food Summit in Rome, Italy; received nearly a half million votes in her 2006 bid to become Iowa's Secretary of Agriculwomen in agriculture at the World Conference on Women in Beijing, China in 1995; organized a rural women's workshop for the 1996 World Food Summit in Rome, Italy; received nearly a half million votes in her 2006 bid to become Iowa's Secretary of AgriculWomen in Beijing, China in 1995; organized a rural women's workshop for the 1996 World Food Summit in Rome, Italy; received nearly a half million votes in her 2006 bid to become Iowa's Secretary of Agriculwomen's workshop for the 1996 World Food Summit in Rome, Italy; received nearly a half million votes in her 2006 bid to become Iowa's Secretary of Agriculture.

Civil society also called the SBSTA to empower women and farmers and enhance their knowledge while contributing to mitigate climate change, and requested the SBTA to expand dialogue on agriculture and food security and provide substantial funding to respond to the need of farmers.

Which the farmer assumed was the contractor's fault and not mine because what sane woman would wash dishes in an outside well for eight weeks on her own volition?

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.