Making markets work for women smallholders in Tanzania
Sunday, March 31st, 2013 Posted in Agriculture, Food security, Tanzania, Women's rights | No Comments »[caption id="attachment_6052" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Farming in Tanzania"][/caption] As we launch the findings of our research on Women's Collective Action in agricultural markets, Global Research Adviser Martin Walsh, who helped to develop the ...
Unleashing the power of women farmers in Ethiopia
Saturday, March 9th, 2013 Posted in Agriculture, Ethiopia, Food security, Women's rights | No Comments »[caption id="attachment_5903" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Bedria Hussein"][/caption] On International Women’s Day, a thousand women – mostly farmers – gathered in Ziway in central Ethiopia to celebrate the power and potential of women food producers. One of the ...
Helping Rwandan women’s thriving pineapple businesses
Thursday, March 7th, 2013 Posted in Agriculture, Food security, Rwanda, Women's rights | No Comments »[caption id="attachment_5875" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Uwamwezi solar drying her pineapples"][/caption] An Oxfam project in Rwanda is helping entrepreneurial rural women get access to the techniques, markets and technology they need to set up thriving pineapple businesses. Women ...
Somalia food crisis easing, though 1.05 million people are still in need
Friday, February 1st, 2013 Posted in Agriculture, Aid, Food security, Somalia | No Comments »[caption id="attachment_5711" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Displaced women and their children wait in a Mogadishu clinic"][/caption] The number of people in need of food aid in Somalia is continuing to drop, with the number of Somalis in need of humanitarian assistance down to ...
Tanzanian rice farmers fight against climate change
Monday, January 14th, 2013 Posted in Agriculture, Climate change, Tanzania | No Comments »[caption id="attachment_5625" align="alignright" width="270" caption="Farmers in Tanzania"][/caption] "Climate change is killing us". Andrew Chikwanda could scarcely put it more bluntly. It's his first day as Acting Director of Kahama District in Tanzania, but his biggest challenge is obvious. The rain does still ...
Land rights and World Food Day in Tanzania
Tuesday, October 16th, 2012 Posted in Agriculture, Food security, Land, Tanzania, Women's rights | No Comments »[caption id="attachment_5276" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Land grabs drama"][/caption] Today, on World Food Day, people from across Tanzania gathered in Kiharaka village to call for better rights for small-scale food producers. In particular, land grabs and threats to people's land rights were identified ...
Meeting female food heroes in Tanzania
Friday, July 27th, 2012 Posted in Agriculture, Tanzania, Women's rights | No Comments »[caption id="attachment_4704" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Hawana with Female Food Hero 2012 entry form"][/caption] Today we were in Zinga village, near Bagamoyo in Tanzania, meeting with women farmers to promote the Female Food Hero 2012 awards (Mama Shujaa wa Chakula). The women shared ...
“Female Food Heroes 2012” competition launches in Tanzania
Friday, July 20th, 2012 Posted in Agriculture, Food security, Land, Tanzania, Women's rights | 3 Comments »[caption id="attachment_4641" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Filling in entry forms for Female Food Hero 2012"][/caption] The harmonies of singing women filled the air in Iyenge village as Esther Jerome, Anna Oloshuro and Mwandiwe Makame kicked off the celebrations to launch the 2012 Mama ...
New technology revolutionising Rwandan pineapple production
Monday, May 21st, 2012 Posted in Agriculture, Rwanda | 1 Comment »[caption id="attachment_4304" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Pineapples at Shekina factory"][/caption] On the winding road between Kigali and the DRC border, behind the unassuming gates of a compound in Rulindo, a new technology is on the verge of revolutionising pineapple production to benefit poor ...
Congolese coffee farmers struggle with insecurity
Wednesday, April 18th, 2012 Posted in Agriculture, DR Congo, Photos | No Comments »Small-scale coffee farmers in eastern DRC work hard to grow enough coffee to support their families. But they lose up to a quarter of the crop through informal taxes, checkpoints, and raids by soldiers and armed groups. “The soldiers come ...