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DocumentFAO Regional Office for Africa (RAF) Programme Review - November 2011 Edition 2011
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No results found.In adition to several articles higlighting the Regional Office for Africa activities in the region, an update on FAO assistance to Somalia is featured highlighting the commitment of the organization in delivering sustainable programme support. Information on the recent FAO sub regional policy consultation on food prices is presented, in addition to an overview one of RAF's flagship regional projects, The Green Wall for the Sahara delivered in partnership with the African Union and the EU. -
NewsletterFAO Regional Office for Africa Newsletter, July - December 2017
For a Hunger-free Africa
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No results found.This newsletter is a good platform resource for knowledge and information sharing, and provides readers with some factual human interest stories related to FAO's work in the regional, subregional and country level. This latest edition of FAO Regional Office for Africa Newsletter which covers the period of July-December 2017 encapsulates some key stories related to FAO-sponsored programmes in the region. The edition also presents to readers the message of the Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for Africa on the Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition Report, SOFI 2017, the key messages of the report, and some human interest stories from The Gambia, Fall Armyworm, Africa's Great Green Wall Initiative, FAO's reponse to food insecurity in the Eastern Africa Region, FAO's insight of Food Security and Blue Economy and some key success stories in the region. -
DocumentWomen in the Banana Export Industry. Regional Report on West & Central Africa.
Working paper. Series for the World Banana Forum.
2015Also available in:
No results found.‘Women in the Banana Export Industry Regional Report on West & Central Africa’ is part of a global report on the economic aspects of gender issues in the banana sector. It analyses key issues for women workers with a particular focus on women’s employment in the region. The main roles carried out by women in the workplace are identified as are any advances towards Decent Work that have been made through multi stakeholder and project activity in West and Central Africa. The report will inform the gender work of the World Banana Forum. Women’s employment in the region varies from 11% in Côte d'Ivoire, to 21% in Cameroon. This is in part explained by the dominant operator in Ghana and Cameroon, Compagnie Fruitiere, being more restrictive of women’s employment in the field. The key issues for women across all three countries in the study (Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, and Cameroon) were low wages, hours of work, health and safety (in particular for pregnant women and nursing mothers, sexual harass ment and lack of childcare provision. Women experience a triple burden as plantation worker, domestic worker and child carer. In Cameroon and Ghana women reported earning less than men. Lack of education and training is a key barrier to better employment opportunities for women which companies are beginning to address. The Collective Bargaining Agreement between GAWU and Golden Exotics Ltd was an example of best practice, aiming to create a ’women friendly’ environment. Unions involved in the re port are active in gender training initiatives for women workers and representatives in partnership with British NGO, Banana Link, and the IUF. The African case shows that gender does not need to prevent women being employed in banana operations in both the field and packhouse, increasing job opportunities for women, although further research is needed to assess the impacts of greater numbers of women being employed in the field.
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