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Join the Gender in Agriculture Partnership

Newsletter date: 25/01/2015
 
Join us in our celebration!
 
The vibrant community in the Gender in Agriculture Partnership now involves nearly 250 institutions, while the GAP LinkedIn Group has just surpassed 500 members.
 
The Gender in Agriculture Partnership is an open and inclusive movement, that shares knowledge, builds partnerships and catalyzes collective actions to address the needs and economic empowerment of rural women around the world.
 
Under the inspiring patronage of Professors MS Swaminathan and Catherine Bertini, actions are directly driven by the GAP partners themselves.
 
The GAP website also forms the  agriculture portal for the Economic Empowerment website of UN Women. 
 
GFAR and partners appreciate and acknowledge the commitment and passion of all the GAP catalysts in promoting gender equity and empowering women in agriculture.
 
This latest newsletter is just a snapshot of what is happening with GAP at the moment. For more information we invite you to visit the GAP website and if you are not already a GAP catalyst, please join us by signing in on the webpage - and get sharing!
 
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Inspiring women in agriculture

Dr Chavonda Jacobs Young is the Administrator of the Agricultural Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture.

Here she talks of her work, the challenges addressed in agricultural research, the role and scope of USDA-ARS and the exciting opportunities for young women in agricultural science.
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2015 Call for Global Community Champions for Women's Economic Empowerment

Are you passionate about gender equality and women's economic empowerment? Do you want to apply your skills to make a difference in your own community and beyond? Do you have access to the internet? 
Shaping my future in Gender, Agriculture and Global Development

Shaping my future in Gender, Agriculture and Global Development

Moses Owiny, Project Officer with the Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET), kicks off the "Young women and Youth's Gender Perspectives in Agricultural Development" series that spotlight young professionals' experiences for women's empowerment in agricultural development.
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Empowering African agriculture’s biggest actors: Women

For Africa to achieve food self-sufficiency, governments must give a greater decision-making role to African agriculture’s most important actors: Women.

Often marginalised when it comes to land ownership, agricultural education, access to credit and control of the proceeds of agricultural sales, women must be allowed to break out of a poverty trap that prevents greater productivity.
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Livestock and Fish program trials gender capacity assessments in Tanzania

ILRI's Violet Barasa reports on recent Livestock and Fish CRP lessons from using a pilot gender capacity assessment methodology in Tanzania.
 
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Closing the livestock gender gap in Southern Africa

Closing gender gaps in agriculture can generate significant gains for the sector and for the society as a whole by improving nutrition, food security and income levels, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Subregional Coordinator for Southern Africa, Chimimba David Phiri has said.