The GFAR community of partners has identified rural women’s wellbeing as an area of focus for GFAR collective actions. Small enterprise development for rural women has been identified as an effective way to raise their income, to develop their leadership and life skills and to improve their wellbeing and that of their families. However, success will depend on finding the right opportunities and intervention points through the full engagement of rural women and their communities.
GFAR themes 2013
Nouhoun Tigana waves a skinny pigeon away from the chicken coop he is guarding. He doesn’t know for sure what the weather will be like tomorrow – other than that it’s likely to be intensely hot again.
Watch this interview with Nidhi Nagabhatla, representative of the Youth Constituency at the global level in the GFAR Steering Committee. In June 2017 the members of the GFAR Steering Committee met for a dynamic three-day strategic workshop to set out their ideas for the actions the Partners in GFAR will take together to improve agri-food research and innovation towards achieving sustainable development.
GFAR themes 2013
On the 2017 International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, the United Nations is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).
Dubai, UAE, 3 August 2017 ― The International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA) has been awarded a grant from the Expo 2020 Dubai’s Expo Live Innovation Impact Grant Programme to conduct an innovative research project on inland and coastal modular farms in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
The center is among only three organizations in the UAE and 29 global innovators from around the world to have won this grant.