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DocumentWomen and Rural Employment: Fighting Poverty by Redefining Gender Roles 2009About three quarters of the world’s poor live in rural areas. Among those, women constitute a particularly vulnerable, yet crucially important group for social and economic development. Investing in rural women is thus not only a moral imperative; it can also be a promising strategy to effectively fight poverty and hunger.
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Case study on women's participation in the maize and bean value chains in Rwanda
2020Also available in:
No results found.The purpose of this study was to analyse the position of women in the maize and bean value chains in Rwanda, as well as the current and potential role of financial service providers (FSPs) in strengthening the positioning of women in these chains. The study used the women’s economic empowerment framework for the conceptual analysis, while similarly looking at overall financial inclusion indicators. This was all done within the context of a value chain analysis. The value chain concept provided a framework for analysis and explained the different functions in the value chains for bean and for maize, including the roles of men and women. The analysis showed how the available financial services not only reached women but also benefited and empowered them. A desk study, which accompanied the fieldwork and value chain analysis, showed that the enabling environment in Rwanda is very conducive to the promotion of women in agriculture. Government policies support the economic inclusion of women, and clear implementation strategies have been defined. However, women still experience challenges and constraints in terms of access to land and farm inputs, equipment, training, finance and market channels. Strong time constraints also exist due to double burden, as well as limited power in negotiations on decisions between members of their households (known as ‘intra-household bargaining power’). In this case the decisions are on use of resources and income. Furthermore, women still have less access to larger loans for inputs, trading and aggregation. -
BookletWARFA: Strengthening the role of women in sustainable rural agricultural development in Saudi Arabia
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2023Also available in:
No results found.On the occasion of International Rural Women’s Day, a new initiative for rural women empowerment – AL WARFA – was launched by the SRAD Programme through a joint effort between the Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture (MoEWA), REEF and FAO Saudi Arabia. The objective of the initiative is to accelerate rural women’s economic empowerment and strengthen their livelihood in the agrifood system by providing access to intensive capacity building and encouraging their participation and involvement in the local economy. Some training courses were designed explicitly and in depth based on the current concepts and best practices in various areas of women’s participation in rural agricultural development. The training focuses on four thematic areas including agricultural cooperatives, value addition, agribusiness management, and agricultural marketing. Principles of experiential and adult learning approaches were applied to ensure an interactive learning environment including interactive lectures, brainstorming, group discussion, video/documentary, role plays and individual reading. Forty-six women entrepreneurs with diverse educational backgrounds were the pioneer group partaking in these imperative rural women training courses in Saudi Arabia.
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