Feminine Creativity in the Face of Natural Disasters in Cuba
Blanca Lima raises all her appliances above flood level, puts boxes of clothes on top of wardrobes, and fills the shelves she installed near the ceiling with all kinds of objects. In less than an hour,...
View ArticleFarming Among the Waste in Cameroon
Cameroonian urban famer Juliana Numfor has six plots of land where she grows maize, cassava, sweet potatoes and leafy vegetables, including cabbages, wild okra and greens. The soil in which her crops...
View ArticleMen and Women Farming Together Can Eradicate Hunger
Three years ago, the residents of the semi-arid Yatta district in Kenya’s Eastern Province lived on food aid due to dwindling crops of maize that could not thrive because of the decreased rainfall in...
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U.N. Chief Fires Up Private Investment for Global Energy Solutions
Following a lukewarm outcome of the Rio+20 sustainable development negotiations in June, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is moving full-steam ahead on a new initiative aimed at leveraging...
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Rural Women in Peru Cope “Where Life Is Very Sad”
When the crops in her rural highlands community in southern Peru were covered with a thick layer of ice one night, Felícitas Quispe, 43, organised her neighbours to make an effort to keep people from...
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Malawi’s Heroines of the Floods
For many women in Malawi’s disaster-prone southern district of Nsanje, resilience is essential to survive the cyclical flooding. Twenty-four-year-old Chrissie Davie, a mother of four, saved two of her...
View ArticleQ&A: Disaster Resilience Starts with Grassroots Women
Women and girls can be powerful agents of change, but they are disproportionately affected by disasters because of social roles, discrimination and poverty. The International Day for Disaster Reduction...
View ArticleWomen Hit Hard by Natural Disasters
In the aftermath of a natural disaster, women are often the most vulnerable. Particularly in rural areas, women suffer disproportionately from inadequate shelter and poor sanitation facilities and are...
View ArticleTaking the Knowledge of Doha Back to Kenya’s Rural Communities
The skyscraper Qatari capital city of Doha is a far cry from Cecilia Kibe’s home in Turkana district, a remote area in Kenya inhabited by mostly nomadic communities and pastoralists hit hard by the...
View ArticleWomen Fight Climate Battles
From Zimbabwe to El Salvador, women in poor countries suffer the brunt of climate change, but also learn to recover from disasters, to adapt and even to find opportunities in the new weather conditions.
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Digging Deep for New Conflict
The Palestinian village Zaatara at the foot of Herodion. Credit: Pierre Klochendler/IPS.If Herod the Great was a controversial figure of his time, 2,000 years on the controversy isn’t about his legacy;...
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Women’s Time Has Come
Ambassador and Permanent Representative of France to FAO H.E. Bérengére Quincy. Credit: ©FAO/Alessandra BenedettiClosing the gender gap between women and men on agriculture and food security could free...
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Technology and Innovation Aim at Greater Food Security
Through a Feed the Future project in Kenya, smallholder farmers, particularly women, are introduced to high-value crops such as orange flesh sweet potatoes that can both boost household food security...
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Q&A: Battle for Human Rights in Rio Is “Far From Over”
Rousbeh Legatis interviews NAVANETHEM PILLAY, U.N. High Commissioner for Human RightsBy Rousbeh LegatisUNITED NATIONS, Jun 14 2012 (IPS) Human rights should be explicitly recognised as an indispensable...
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Nepal’s Female Farmers Fear Climate Change
By Naresh NewarDANG, Nepal, Jun 15 2012 (IPS) When Arati Chaudhary’s husband left for India to find work as a migrant labourer, the job of managing farm and family fell on her slender shoulders. Nepal...
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Will the World Listen to Women?
Women's rights and reproductive health are critical factors in sustainable development. Credit:Ignatius Banda/IPSBy Zofeen EbrahimRIO DE JANEIRO, Jun 22 2012 (IPS) What does birth control have to do...
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RIO+20: Promised Green Economy Was a Fake, Say Activists
By Thalif DeenRIO DE JANEIRO, Jun 22 2012 (IPS) When the Rio+20 summit on sustainable development ended Friday, there were winners and losers – mostly losers. The omission of reproductive rights is a...
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CLIMATE CHANGE: Caribbean Women Caught in the Storm
Many Dominican women are heads of households, which makes their participation in climate change adaptation efforts even more important. Credit: Dionny Matos/IPS By Patricia GroggSANTO DOMINGO, Jun 29...
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“The Truth is That All Problems Have Solutions” – Even Climate Change in...
A successful women’s farming project in Ethiopia is a model for training other urban farmer groups all over Africa on how to adapt to climate change. Credit: Isaiah Esipisu/IPSBy Isaiah EsipisuADDIS...
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Feminine Creativity in the Face of Natural Disasters in Cuba
Areas along the Havana shoreline flood up to two metres in depth during tropical storms. Credit: Jorge Luis Baños/IPSBy Ivet GonzálezHAVANA, Aug 27 2012 (IPS) Blanca Lima raises all her appliances...
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