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Book (stand-alone)Agrobiodiversity conservation and the role of rural women
An expert consultation report
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No results found.A report of the proceedings of the expert consultation on the above theme, which was held at the University of the Philippines Los Banos, Laguna, Philippines from 10 to 13 September 2001. There is growing empirical evidence of the key role of rural women in agrobiodiversity conservation for food security in developing countries. Yet, there is still not adequate understanding of women’s contribution in this field. The consultation involved experts working on community-level projects supporting wo men’s participation in agrobiodiversity conservation as well as resource persons who offered critical perspectives on the subject. The document includes summaries of the country case studies and the discussions as well as the recommendations that emerged from the exercise to promote women’s role in agrobiodiversity conservation. These focus on strategies to strengthen institutional partnerships among governments, research organizations, non-governmental organizations and communities, as well as research, development and extension interventions to support the role of rural women as local agrobiodiversity managers for food security. -
Book (stand-alone)Non-wood forest products of Central Africa: current research issues and prospects for conservation and development 1999
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Book (series)Livelihood and micro-enterprise development opportunities for women in coastal fishing communities in India – Case studies of Orissa and Maharashtra. 2007
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No results found.The studies on livelihood and micro-enterprise development opportunities for women in coastal fishing communities in India are a follow-up to the national workshop on best practices in microfinance programmes for women in coastal fishing communities in India, held in Panaji, Goa, India, from 1 to 4 July 2003. The proceedings and outcomes of the workshop are reported in FAO Fisheries Report No. 724. The studies found that poverty has remained a serious problem in fishing communities in Orissa and Maharashtra, made even more severe by the widespread absence of rural infrastructure and services such as safe drinking water, electricity, waste and sewage disposal facilities, health care and educational services and facilities, all-weather link roads as well as a lack of adequate housing facilities. Over the last two decades, fishing effort and the cost of fishing have considerably increased. Over the same period, a diversification of livelihoods of fisherfolk households has taken place, and many household members, particularly women, are now working part-time as unskilled agricultural labourers or construction workers. In recent years, through the efforts of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), the marine wing of the Fisheries Department of Orissa and the initiative of other government departments, many women self-help groups (SHGs) and cooperatives have been formed and training has been provided to their members in the field of fish processing an d marketing. Only a minority of the SHGs and cooperatives in Maharashtra and Orissa though, which have been formed in fishing communities, have so far been linked to financial institutions and there is a severe lack of rural fish storage and processing infrastructure and facilities. The findings of the studies suggest that through actively promoting self-help groups and cooperatives among women in coastal fishing communities and through linking these associations with financial insti tutions, investment and working capital needs of their members can be met. To make the best use of capital inputs, SHGs and their federations need vocational and enterprise development training from NGOs and from fisheries training and research institutions as well as assistance for establishing links to new market outlets for their products, both domestically and for export. The state-level workshops in Orissa and Maharashtra made specific recommendations as to what kind of assistance i s needed so that poverty in coastal fishing communities can be reduced and livelihoods improved and diversified through micro-enterprise development and microfinance and training support.
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