Posts Tagged ‘Land’
Seeds and Their Keepers are Key to Preserving India’s Food Diversity
In India, where food security is threatened by growing climate unpredictability and industrial agriculture, women farmers are leading the way to safeguard the biodiversity of indigenous crops. Want to learn more? Check out this blog post written by India Program Director Rucha Chitnis on Earth Island Journals’ blog, EnvironmentaList!
Read MoreWomen in the Center of Crop Diversity & Food Security
Blog entry by Rucha Chitnis, India Program Director, who is traveling in Southern India to research women farmers’ green traditional knowledge systems for farming, seed saving and managing their natural resources. Let’s start from the very beginning. And some might say that it all began with the seeds. Seed, a symbol of fertility and…
Read MoreIndigenous Community Enterprises: Building Sustainable Futures, One Home at a Time
Zoe Levitt, Consultant for Indigenous Community Enterprises (ICE), a Women’s Earth Alliance Partner Organization March 14th was a bright, windy day in Window Rock. I waited outside the Navajo Nation Museum to meet Hazel James from Indigenous Community Enterprises (ICE) for the start of my site visit to gather photos and conduct interviews for their new…
Read MoreWe are Together: Sharing observations from the 55th Session on the Commission on the Status of Women!
By Maame Yelbert-Obeng, WEA’s Africa Program Director During the first week of March, I had the opportunity to attend part of the 55th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) organized by the United Nations at its headquarters in New York. This year’s CSW session, focusing strategically on “Gender, Education, Science and…
Read MoreIndigenous Women and the Way Forward from Fukushima
“In a [Navajo] creation story, the people were given a choice of two yellow powders. They chose the yellow dust of corn pollen, and were instructed to leave the other yellow powder—uranium—in the soil and never to dig it up. If it were taken from the ground, they were told, a great evil would come.”…
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