Homestead farming250 women farmers in Dumki trained to grow homestead vegetables
Palli Seba Sangstha trained 250 women in Patuakhali's Dumki, in four batches of three days, to grow vegetables on homestead and fallow land and to use ICT in farming.
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Homestead farmingFewer South African households now grow their own food, analysis of census data finds
The share of South African households farming fell from 19.9% in 2011 to 13.8% in 2022, eroding a low-cost food security buffer, while women now head most of the households that still farm.
AgrotechPedal-operated coconut dehusker reaches 85 women's groups in Odisha's Puri district
ICAR's Central Institute for Women in Agriculture has given 85 women's groups in Puri district its pedal-operated coconut dehusker and trained them to use it, a tool designed to cut the strain and hand injuries of dehusking by hand.
HealthOntario orchard farmer credits her doctor's reminders for catching breast cancer
Sarah Wynn, 43, co-owner of an apple orchard and agritourism farm, was diagnosed with invasive lobular carcinoma after a screening she had put off, and is urging other women to book their mammograms.
Opinion
Soumya Swaminathan: Maharashtra's law makes landless women farmers visible
From 2 October Maharashtra begins issuing Women Farmers Certificates that recognise women in farming as farmers without land titles; Soumya Swaminathan says joint land titles must follow.
CropsOn the Padma chars, women keep the seed but are left off the farmer list
On the Padma chars of Harirampur, Manikganj, women decide what is sown where and which seed is kept, yet their names are missing from land deeds, farmer lists and the new farmer card applications.
Agrotech
Design farm AI with women, not for them, CGIAR researchers urge at Kigali forum
At the Africa Food Systems Forum, CGIAR researchers argued that AI advisory, insurance and speech tools only help women farmers when women shape the design, data and governance behind them.
Environment
Smallholders under climate pressure while less than 10 per cent of adaptation finance reaches the local level: ADB note
An ADB technical note on Heifer International's work finds that under 10 per cent of global climate finance reaches local level and only about 5 per cent of extension services effectively reach women; in Bangladesh 101 women-led cooperatives now link 133,034 smallholders to finance, insurance and ma
Organic
Cork suckler and sheep farmer Kay O'Sullivan shortlisted for Europe's best organic farmer
The fifth-generation farmer from Mourneabbey, organic since 2010, is one of three finalists in the female category of the EU Organic Awards to be presented in Brussels on September 23.
Agribusiness
Village savings groups give Ivorian women farmers cheap credit and a climate buffer
In eastern Côte d'Ivoire, FAO's SAGA 2 project is pairing sustainable-farming training with village savings and loan associations so women can borrow at rates they set themselves and grow vegetables without chemical inputs.
World
Zero-tillage under straw on saline Sundarbans land: a decade of Australian-Indian research puts women farmers in front
At a seminar at Narendrapur Ramakrishna Mission, Australia's ACIAR and CSIRO, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya and the saline-soil research station at Canning presented ten years of work on West Bengal's cyclone-battered coast, rainwater harvesting and straw-mulched surface cropping have brough
Agribusiness
Banks meet under a quarter of African coffee smallholders' credit needs, CABI paper finds
Research in Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda, set out in CABI Working Paper 38 by Dr Morris Akiri, finds commercial banks provide about 7% of formal farm credit; unrealistic interest rates, monthly repayments that ignore the harvest cycle and land-title collateral exclude women an
Crops
Vietnam's low-emission rice programme moves to bring women into nutrient management
IRRI and CIP brought farmers, cooperatives, extension staff and officials together in Can Tho to work out how women and smallholders can be included in precision nutrient management under Vietnam's One Million Hectares rice programme.