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Sustainable farming with a Masai women's group

The people of Namelok in Kenya's Amboseli region have had to learn to adapt to change. They are ethnic Maasai and traditionally keep livestock, but successive…

Africa: Empower Women for Food Security, Says UN

"Where women have less power than men do, nutrition suffers, household security weakens and access to healthcare lags," says the UNDP's first-ever Africa Human…

INDONESIA: Living with dirty water

Ibu Sutria, 53, lives in a wooden shack on the banks of West Java’s Krukut River, which runs approximately 20km south from the capital, Jakarta, to the city of…

Energy Forests, the Feminine Art of Reforesting

María Elena Muñoz industriously weeds a clearing in the forest and then digs several holes, where she and another four dozen women are planting plantain…

Biofuels: A Catastrophe for Indonesian Children

Dreams of sending his children to quality schools have vanished for 40-year-old farmer Muslikin, as the father of three now struggles to repay the bank loan he…

South Africa’s Garbage Cooperatives

Nokwanda Sotyantya sits among heaps of garbage and patiently sorts through it, separating cardboard, plastic, glass, paper and metal, piece by piece. The…

MEXICO: No money for rural women's environmental services

Despite the key role they play in caring for natural resources in the face of climate change, rural women in Mexico do not benefit from payments for…

Chad Famine – Mothers Breaking Apart Anthills in Search of Food

Wide-spread famine in Chad means that women have to dig up roots and search for seeds in ant-hills to stay alive.

Women Pay for Kashmir's Water Woes

Naseema Akhtar, 38, is one of thousands of women in in Kashmir who have to travel far for clean water. Local water is often contaminated causing widespread…

Peru: Cajamarca Protests Continue as Conga Gold Mine Awaits Green Light

Thousands of residents of Cajamarca, Peru, gathered at the Laguna Azul, one of many high-altitude lakes at protest the building of a gold mine which they…

Women Farmers Yielding Profits and Better Futures in Rural Rwanda

I never thought I would be able to pay the school fees for all five of my children and our family’s health insurance costs as well!” exclaimed Euphrasia…

NICARAGUA: Re-Greening the Border

Ignacia Matute remembers when the hills around her home in northwestern Nicaragua were blanketed in green, and she woke to the sounds of birds and the rushing…

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