Posts Tagged ‘South Asia’
Your invitation to join us From The Fields
This Sunday, a group of 13 women delegates will travel to Delhi, India to learn, connect, share and strategize with Indian women who are leading the way in sustainable agriculture development. Among this group there are economists, biologists, academics, authors, permaculturalists, and urban farmers. Together, we will launch the first key phase of WEA’s Women…
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“If we can make small-holder farming more productive and more profitable, we can have a massive impact on hunger, and nutrition, and poverty.” —Bill Gates 2009 World Food Prize Symposium The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Learn about WEA’s newest initiative– the Women and Agriculture Initiative, which will work to equip Indian women farmers with…
Read MorePhilippines Struggle to Supply Most Basic of Needs
“The failure to ensure safe water supply and sanitation and the rapidity with which we degrade the environment through air and water pollutants greatly threatens human health and contributes to a high death toll across all ages. The poorest victims, however, are the children.” In the Philippines, 25 million people do not have access to…
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