International Women’s Day (IWD) is commemorated globally on March 8th. UN Women, the UN organization dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women, and Partner in GFAR with a seat on the GFAR Steering Committee, is celebrating IWD with the theme: “Time is Now: Rural and Urban Activists Transforming Women’s Lives”.
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The Director General of IICA, which is the institution in charge of the FORAGRO Secretariat, designated Viviana Palmieri as the new Executive Secretary of the forum.
The Dairy Sustainability Framework, Partner in GFAR, has now reached the point of public consultation on Reporting Guidelines for six High Level Indicator Metrics, which will better enable the DSF to align the dairy sector and publicly report the global sustainability progress of the dairy industry.
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To celebrate the often unsung work of farming communities, GFAR has commissioned a series of short videos telling the farmers’ stories in their own words. In this second video in the series, farmers in Guatemala relate first-hand their challenges and successes as guardians of crop seed and the breeders of new varieties. The videos tell a vital story of why the living conservation and use of these irreplaceable resources are crucial, not just to the communities concerned, but to all our futures.
The “Doomsday Vault,” that safeguards fall-back collections of key food crop seeds in the arctic cold of Longyearbyen, Norway, marks its tenth anniversary this year. To celebrate, leaders in the conservation of crop genetic resources are gathering next week to discuss best practices and to encourage sustainable use of the resources.