By Deborah Espinosa and Patrick Gallagher, USAID’s Land Technology Solutions Program

Persistent and pervasive gender inequality is a global development challenge that constrains economic growth, educational opportunities, and health outcomes. It jeopardizes food security and undermines poverty reduction strategies. The world over, some formal and many informal laws and customs operate to hinder women’s empowerment and thus their full potential as agents of economic and social change.

Por Raúl Conde

Son el eslabón más débil e invisible: mujeres y rurales, doble exclusión. Triple en el caso de ser inmigrante

Improving how we work for – and with – indigenous and local women in their communities

As a human rights organisation, gender justice is a fundamental principle of our work, and we have long been conscious of, and sought to address, the barriers to effective participation in decision-making by women, as well as the other human rights violations they may face on account of their gender.

Por: Kate Evans

Como no dejar que las mujeres indígenas queden fuera del mapa.

Todos los mapas cuentan una historia, una historia de nuestra relación con la tierra.

I have talked to women in at least 15 countries—in their homes, their gardens, their fields, their pastures, their universities, their community organizations, their government and executive offices, and their courtrooms. When asked about rural women’s land use or rights or ownership or livelihood, the thing that usually stands out to me is that most women say, in one form or another, that rural women are generally able to use land, and sometimes even control land, when they are in an intact family.

Artículo de la presidenta nacional de Afammer con motivo del Día Internacional de la Mujer Rural

Por Carmen Quintanilla

El género, la edad y la mecanización del trabajo apuntan a ser factores clave para el desarrollo de la agricultura en África

Por Angeles Lucas

Este artículo forma parte de la cobertura de IPS sobre el Día Internacional de las Mujeres Rurales, el 15 de octubre.

Por Mariela Jara

This July is the first time the United Nations will review the progress made towards meeting Sustainable Development Goal 15, which is about Life on Land. Each goal will be reviewed about every 4 years until 2030.

The reviews will be based on the 10 indicators countries agreed on, that assess change in each country over time. Two important developments relating to the indicator on land degradation neutrality (15.3.1) have occurred, since its adoption in 2015.

“No sé si toda mi vida voy a trabajar la tierra”, así expresó Carla —una joven de una comunidad del municipio de Palacagüina en el departamento de Madriz, quien trabaja en tierra ajena, lo hace a medias con otra mujer que utiliza la parcela del marido— al participar en un estudio que realiza el Instituto de Investigación y Desarrollo Nitlapan-UCA, la Asociación para la Diversificación y Desarrollo Agrícola Comunal (Addac) y Octupan sobre la situación de jóvenes rurales y su acceso a la tierra.  

“No sé si toda mi vida voy a trabajar la tierra”, así expresó Carla —una joven de una comunidad del municipio de Palacagüina en el departamento de Madriz, quien trabaja en tierra ajena, lo hace a medias con otra mujer que utiliza la parcela del marido— al participar en un estudio que realiza el Instituto de Investigación y Desarrollo Nitlapan-UCA, la Asociación para la Diversificación y Desarrollo Agrícola Comunal (Addac) y Octupan sobre la situación de jóvenes rurales y su acceso a la tierra.  

Kuluthum Mbwana remembers the day that biofuel investors arrived in her village Vilabwa, just 70 kilometers west of Tanzania's capital. In exchange for more than 8,000 hectares (19,800 acres) of land across 11 villages, including Vilabwa in Kisarawe District, she said they promised to bring much-needed jobs, schools and health clinics to her community.