agriculture
Empowering women
There are numerous examples from around the world of how poor women, with support, can organise themselves and help feed their families.
Successful farmers in Liberia
After Liberia’s civil war in 2003, women had difficulties rebuilding their lives as most of their husbands had died in the war. Liberia’s first “Women for Development” group was formed in 2006 by 17 people.
Farming and food in Zimbabwe
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Concern launched a food and farming project in Zimbabwe in July 2006. Since then, 124,000 people in three of the regions who are hardest hit by food shortages have benefitted from it.
Joining DFID’s debate
The Department for International Development (DFID) is working on a new White Paper on International Development.
Date:
May 18 2009 (All day)
From marginal farmers to model farmers
Esayas Fanksho smiles broadly. He smiles a lot these days. "We don't suffer from hunger," he says proudly as he heads off, spade in hand, to tend to his coffee trees.
