List/Grid Tag Archives: Farmers
Cooperatives: Empowering women farmers, improving food security
Rural cooperatives and farmers’ organizations play a crucial role in the eradication of hunger and poverty. One of the ways they achieve this is through their vocation to empower small…
FAO Director-General calls on Latin America and the Caribbean to reaffirm commitment to eradicate hunger; Cites Virtues of Cooperatives
Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 28, 2011 -“Because we believe that hunger can and should be eradicated, we were the first region to meet this goal,” said Jose Graziano da Silva,…
Panel Discussion on Rural Women: Are We Delivering on Our Commitments?
On the occasion of the 56th Session of the Commission of the Status of Women, the Permanent Mission of Mongolia to the United Nations and FAO, IFAD and DESA will…
UN official urges focus on rural development to lift millions out of poverty
A top United Nations official today committed to pull up to 90 million people out of poverty by 2015 and help small farmers and all those in rural areas to…
Panel Discussion on Unleashing Rural Women’s Voice to End Hunger and Poverty
A panel discussion on Unleashing Rural Women’s Voice to end Hunger and Poverty will be held on Friday, 2 March 2012 from 11:30 am – 12:45 pm at the Conference…
Event to discuss the Role of Agricultural Cooperatives in enhancing Smallholder Farmers’ Entrepreneurship Skills
Over the past years international development organizations and governments have shown a renewed interest in cooperatives as autonomous, jointly owned and democratically controlled enterprises that can contribute to the development…
Cooperatives central to fighting hunger, stresses UN agency
Cooperatives and producer organizations will be increasingly important in efforts to eliminate hunger and reduce poverty, the head of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said today. “FAO…
El Salvador: Benefits from managing a revolving fund
San Marcos Las Pozas was founded in 2002, but remained inactive for a long time: “Before working with P4P, we had nothing. You could say that we were dead. Then…
Rwanda: Cooperative shows initiative to join P4P
In 2007, farmers in Kirehe district in Eastern Rwanda started organising themselves in a cooperative to gain access to better markets. The name of the cooperative, Indakemwa, means „integrity‟ in Kinyarwanda….
