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27 January, 2022
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Quote of the Week:
"For a number of years, rural Syrian households, particularly those headed by women, have had to earn sufficient income to feed their families. In the past three years, FAO has enhanced rural women’s skills, allowing them to become efficient producers. FAO has assisted the women by improving their food production and business management skills, and supported the establishment of food processing units under the management of women leaders in local communities. Moreover, the Organization has also reached out to women who produce and promote their products independently.
FAO, through the Smallholder Support Programme, has assisted more than 740 women with vouchers to purchase vegetables and supplies for their micro-businesses. Beneficiaries were also given the choice of buying their supplies from various affiliated suppliers, giving them a strong position to negotiate prices and choose supplies with the best value to make their products.
The voucher system was implemented in response to continued inflation and disruption to supply chains, which limited women’s ability to access the needed inputs for production. The scheme also gave women the opportunity to bridge the gaps in their production process depending on their needs."
The IIASA POPJUS Program is looking to recruit a researcher for approx. 32 hours per week (80% employment) for the Migration and Sustainable Development (MIG) Research Group for the “BALancing humAn and Natural resource use in Circular bioeconomy” (BALANCE) project. The successful candidate will study population heterogeneity in consumption patterns and work on multidimensional population projections.
IWMI is looking for an enthusiastic gender research assistant with feminist political ecology/economy training to join the CGIAR Gender Platform funded project, Doing Science with Society (DSWS): Transforming Transdisciplinary Research Methods for Inclusive Climate Interventions. The selected consultant will be provided training in the use of a transdisciplinary, ethnographic, digital tool, SenseMaker and will be expected to join a young dynamic team of researchers and practitioners to understand how agrarian challenges in Bihar are exacerbated by the overlap of social, economic, political inequalities and climate challenges.
This side event will present the latest information available on land-related SDG indicators that are showcased on the SDGs platform. The event will emphasize how Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) can play a key role in accelerating achievement of the SDGs and Building Back Better in light of the COVID-10 pandemic. The event will include several SDG custodians in a dynamic panel discussion of these issues.
The objective of the Call is to attract suitable individuals to undertake A, B or C level consultancies in the area of gender equality and women’s empowerment, as well as support the gender mainstreaming work of the Organization, in line with the commitments of FAO’s Policy on Gender Equality (2020-2030). Individuals meeting or exceeding the requirements of the Call will be included in the Divisional Roster of Gender experts, and be considered whenever relevant opportunities for a consultancy arise related to gender equality and women’s empowerment and gender mainstreaming.
women who own land in Iowa to attend two unique opportunities on March 1st. A virtual, informational Pollinator Learning Circle will be followed by individual Conservation Planning sessions where attendees meet virtually with a conservation planner to start a pollinator habitat plan.
The objective of the Call is to attract suitable individuals to undertake A, B or C level consultancies in the area of gender equality and women’s empowerment, as well as support the gender mainstreaming work of the Organization, in line with the commitments of FAO’s Policy on Gender Equality (2020-2030). Individuals meeting or exceeding the requirements of the Call will be included in the Divisional Roster of Gender experts, and be considered whenever relevant opportunities for a consultancy arise related to gender equality and women’s empowerment and gender mainstreaming.
The United Nations General Assembly designated 11 December “International Mountain Day”. As of 2003, it has been observed every year to create awareness about the importance of mountains to life, to highlight the opportunities and constraints in mountain development and to build alliances that will bring positive change to mountain peoples and environments around the world.
“In the mid-2000s, African leaders envisioned creating a huge swath of green that could help combat desertification and land degradation. The project, called the Great Green Wall, began in 2007 with the aim of planting a nine-mile-wide belt of trees and shrubs that would extend from the coast of Senegal on the Atlantic to Djibouti on the Horn of Africa. These newly forested areas could create seasonal jobs, help farmers feed their families and offer a way to fight climate change by capturing carbon dioxide in plants.
After years of planting trees and experimenting with methods to capture water, farmers in Niger have begun to see results — soil health has improved, and crops are growing again. In 2019, we visited the country to see how the program’s ambition translated in a country where most people depend on the land for their livelihood."
– Raul Roman, Lauren Kelly, Rafe H. Andrews and Nick Parisse, The New York Times
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