Livestock

While developments in vaccine technology have helped eradicate some of the most devastating livestock diseases, women livestock smallholders in particular face barriers to accessing existing livestock vaccines and…

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Gender

A Menstrual Health Pilot in rural Malawi empowers rural women in agribusiness through hygiene products and helps to improve working conditions in rural areas.

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Gender

Farmers who are faced with plant health problems can visit plant clinics staffed by plant doctors, who provide diagnoses and recommendations. In India, plant clinics have been referring farmers to local biopesticide…

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Gender

This book puts gender equality and women’s empowerment at the centre of agricultural development. The authors point out that positive and empowering effects do not happen automatically and that agricultural and…

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Gender

Energy transition, especially access to modern cooking fuels, can speed up the demographic transition in poorer countries and improve women’s lives.

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Gender

Gender differences in African indigenous vegetables production are significant. Women are largely underrepresented in contract farming and 'crowded out' in seed production.

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Gender

The Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) launched a new version of its Women's Human Rights app (W'sHR app) in March 2021 in New York. The app facilitates negotiations and helps improve the efficiency of…

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Gender

This report measures both women’s power to make their own decisions about their bodies and the extent to which countries’ laws support or interfere with a woman’s right to make these decisions. The data show a strong…

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Gender

Every day, the human rights of thousands of girls are violated throughout the world – with the families and the environment they are living in often being fully aware of this. As a partner of the UN Population Fund, the…

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Gender

Carrageens are contained in soft drinks, shampoos and ready meals. These carbohydrates, which are also known as E407, are gained from red algae, also in the shallow water along the coast of Zanzibar, where they…

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