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The future health and well-being of the Earth and its inhabitants is largely in the hands of rural women. Our job is to make sure they have the tools and training they need.

“Empowering rural women is crucial for ending hunger and poverty. By denying women rights...

Agricultural growth is a key pathway towards addressing development issues such as food and nutrition insecurity and poverty, which climate change is already exacerbating. And gender may just be the piece of the puzzle that we have been paying ‘lip service’ to for far too long. We...

International Women’s Day is March 8, and this year’s theme is “Planet 50-50 by 2030: Step It Up for Gender Equality.” So what does gender equality have to do with the environment?

Mounting evidence...

For several decades, my main source of income was sustainable development work in a local non-government organization—the Broad Initiatives for Negros Development (Bind). The organization was into so many initiatives and projects; Organic agriculture and community forestry, gender and...

Background:

The Andean region of Peru is highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Climate models predict significant increases in temperature, leading to increased glacier melt, with implications for water supply and regulation in both Andean and...

This paper presents a synthesis of four case studies documenting strategies towards building gender equality through resilience projects. It draws on the experience of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) involved in the implementation of the Building Resilience and Adaptation to...

In the Municipality of Arque, in the Bolivian Andes, Feliciana Callata starts her day before the sun rises. She prepares food for her children and then gets ready for the agricultural activities she willdo during the day. She walksten kilometers to her farm where she will plant,...

Utah Valley University will host the fourth International Women of the Mountains Conference Oct. 7-9 to raise awareness to issues critical to women and children of the mountainous nations. Studies indicate these nations are often impoverished and underdeveloped and that their women...

The Fourth International Women of the Mountains (IWM) conference will take place on 7-9 October, 2015 at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, co-organized by UVU and the International University of Kyrgyzstan (IUK) under the auspice of the ...

The Water and Sanitation Promoter believes that there is a spirit of ownership among villagers that can be tapped into by someone within their own community.

Sanitation is a familiar term but is often misunderstood to mean the building and using of toilets but this isn’t true....

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