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West African Project Helps Women Farmers Claim Their Rights


Agriculture and Nutrition in Mali through a Gender Lens - SPRING

Regarding international commitments to gender equality, Mali has consistently ratified treaties and conventions that support equal rights for women and girls.

West Africa - HelpAge International

Promo-Femmes/Developpment Solidarite (PF/DS) is an NGO established in 1992 in Burkina Faso that promotes democracy and women's rights, and works to improve ...

Improving access to land and tenure security POLICY - IFAD

of women farmers own land in their own right, while in Kenya, where women ... and claim their rights. It is also important to build up the capacity of ...

The Green River Project, farming entrepreneurship in Nigeria - Eni

The GRP aims to ensure food safety and sustainable entrepreneurship by involving local farmers and developing the potential of women and young ...

2022 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Burkina Faso

: Although the law generally provides the same legal status and rights for women ... Women from other West African countries were fraudulently recruited for ...

Empowering Farmers for Effective Participation in Decision-Making

Faso for farmers and their organizations from nine West African countries to share experiences and to ... The project has a special focus on women because.

Twenty-Five Years of Research on Women Farmers in Africa - CORE

... her analysis does not support her claim that female farmers are more ... One component of the project involved increasing the output of maize for sale.

Women's Rights are Human Rights - ohchr

Asian Nations, the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, the Economic Community of West African States and the Southern African. Development ...

A case of lifelong learning (L3F) approach in West Africa: Heliyon

]]. The urgent need for farmers to receive pertinent information from agricultural research and development in a timely manner is addressed by this coordination ...

RIGHTS OF WOMEN TO THE NATURAL RESOURCES LAND AND ...

Opportunities for projects to strengthen the rights of women to water. 37. 5 ... West African countries have a right to grow vegetables among their husband's ...

Violent Extremism in the Sahel | Global Conflict Tracker

... the region and building a drone base in Niger as a platform for strikes against groups across West and North Africa. On October 4, 2017, members of the U.S. ...

Cameroon | LandLinks

The government can convert national land into state land and allocate use rights to it (e.g., forest concessions) or convert it to private ownership (e.g., for ...

Child Labor and Slavery in the Chocolate Industry

Many children trafficked into Western African cocoa farms are coerced to work without pay. Abby Mills, campaigns director of the International Labor Rights ...

Black Farmers in America, 1865-2000 - USDA Rural Development

For more than a century after the Civil War, deficient civil rights and various economic and social barriers were applied to maintaining a system where many ...

Touring Agricultural Investment Projects

The women tell us that they have been convinced by the project to plant dry beans. They give credit to the Initiative's staff for training them and donating ...

Large-Scale Land Acquisitions by Foreign Investors in West Africa

SSA—while the limited land available for African farmers is diminishing in the ... The global rush for land is being justified by claiming that small-scale ...

Fonio: An Ancient Grain at the Center of Women's Economic Inclusion

Through USAID/Ghana, the Trade Hub awarded AMAATI a $742,000 co-investment grant to develop a 1,000-acre nucleus farm in Mion District in the Northern Region ...

The Mystery of Capital Formation in Sub-Saharan Africa

In West Africa, women will have some residual claim to land in their natal ... Gender and Law - Women's Rights in Agriculture. Rome: Food and. Agriculture ...

Case Study on Women and Climate Resilience

... gender equality for women farmers then this would contribute to the resilience of their ... African Republic, the flagship project helped ...

CAUSES OF FARMER– HERDER CONFLICTS IN AFRICA

For example, using unhelpful labelling of particular groups. The Fulani, the largest pastoralist group in West Africa. (UNOWAS, 2018), are often labelled as. ' ...