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Portable Ginnery Could Revive Kenya’s Ailing Cotton Industry
Kirinyaga University may have just breathed new life into Kenya’s ailing cotton industry as varsity dons develop a portable cotton ginnery. For an industry that has been struggling to survive, ...
Solar Power and Biogas Empower Women Farmers in Brazil
A bakery, fruit pulp processing and water pumped from springs are empowering women farmers in Goiás, a central-eastern state of Brazil. New renewable energy sources are driving the process. “W...
Breaking the Silence: Gender-Based Challenges in the Lesotho Highlands Water Project ll
In the journey towards gender equality and justice, recent decades have seen strides made, yet the road ahead remains treacherous. In the race to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) ...
Conservation Efforts by Ethnic Communities in Bangladesh Bolster Water Security
Just a few years ago, Sudarshana Chakma (35), a resident of the remote Digholchari Debarmatha village under Bilaichari upazila in the Rangamati Hill District, had to traverse a long hilly path to...
Women’s Land Rights in Farming Need Further Recognition
In the developing world, land rights for women remain tenuous in the agricultural sector. But if women farmers are recognized as landowners in their own right, it can lead to greater economic emp...
Unpaid Caregivers, a Symbol of Inequality in Chile
In Chile, as in the rest of Latin America, the task of caring for people with disabilities, the elderly and children falls to women who, as a result, do not have access to paid jobs or time for t...
International Women’s Day, 2024Inside Women Dominated Seaweed Farms in Kenya’s Indian Ocean Waters
As the world celebrates International Women’s Day, IPS brings a story of women who are both creating economic opportunities for themselves and helping to reduce the impact of climate change.
Stepping Up Investment in Latin American Women is Imperative
This feature is part of a series to mark International Women’s Day, March 8.
New Attempts to Reduce Gender Inequality in Brazil
This feature is part of a series to mark International Women’s Day, March 8.
Poverty and Inequality Mark Rural Life in Latin America
Rural life in Latin America and the Caribbean continues to be marked by poverty and inequality compared to the towns and cities where the vast majority of the population lives. A new focus on rur...
Saving Energy, Saving Forests: How Kindle Stoves Are Changing Women’s Lives
Having this stove has made life easy for me; I do not worry about getting a lot of firewood to cook outside, and I have more time to do other tasks because cooking is less of a hassle. I no long...
Charting Out a Sustainable Path for Island, Coastal Communities Facing Climate Crisis
There is an irreparable connection between culture and the seas: loss of land due to rising sea levels and loss of livelihood due to changing fish migration patterns are having a massive impact o...
Taking Charge Against Plastic Pollution in India
Aditi Agarwal, a brilliant computer science engineer and Gold Medalist, once thrived in the tech world, contributing to innovations at Microsoft. However, she felt a calling to address real-world...
Commonwealth Civil Society Offers Ministers Crucial Recommendations for Gender Equality Advancement
Amid fears that global shocks like the COVID-19 pandemic have eroded progress toward gender equality, the Commonwealth Foundation has created an online platform that takes civil society’s recom...
Venezuela’s Young Women Particularly Vulnerable to the Crisis
Hemmed in by poverty, with barely two days of school a week, and often at risk of unwanted pregnancy or the uncertain prospect of emigration, young women and adolescents are among the main victim...
Women Correct Historical Injustices, Build Climate Resilience Through Cash Pooling
Excluded by inheritance and ignored by big business, women farmers in Kenya are turning to innovative methods to become independent food producers and get the financial backing to ensure their s...
Seniors Thriving Through Plastic Waste in Zimbabwe
They do not have a pension nor financial support from families or relatives, but they have themselves. Now they have become collectors of plastic waste, which they turn into products as they batt...
Women hold the Key to Success of Pastoralism in Africa
Women in pastoralist areas of East Africa are critical to the health of livestock in their communities, holding the key to effective animal vaccination campaigns meant to protect herds against de...
Nigerian Women Challenge ‘Colonialist’ Patriarchy
Bukes Saliu wakes up very early every workday to beat the gruesome Lagos traffic to head to a job quite unusual for a woman to engage in Nigeria. She is a forklift operator in one of the busy dep...
Bolivian Women Fight Prejudice to Be Accepted as Mechanics
In Bolivia, more and more women have gone from being homemakers or street vendors to joining the noisy world of engines, their hands now covered in grease after learning that special touch to mak...
Growing Feminization of Migration in Cuba Poses New Challenges
Emigrating from Cuba was an agonizing decision for Ana Iraida. She left behind family and friends; in her backpack she carried many hopes, but also the fear of facing dangers on the journey to th...
Women Study More in Brazil, but Make Little Progress in the Exact Sciences
“I thought of studying journalism, because of the example of Gloria Maria,” a famous black TV journalist who died of cancer in February 2023, said mathematician Luciana Elias, while discussin...
Social Activists Demand Real Equality for Chilean Women
Women social activists recognize that gender equality is gaining ground in Chile, but maintain that there is still a long way to go to turn into reality the promises to “level the playing field...
Taking Stock of Two Decades of Trailblazing Protocol on Women’s Rights in Africa
It promised to be the most defining, groundbreaking, and transformative protocol on African women’s rights. Specific in its approach, broad in its reach, and unique in its all-encompassing natu...
Women Recyclers in Bolivia Build Hope, Demand Recognition
They haul many kilos of recyclable materials on their backs but receive little in return. These Bolivian women who help clean up the environment from dawn to dusk are fighting for recognition of ...
Wood Smoke Continues to Make Women Sick in El Salvador
Using a few dry sticks as fuel, Margarita Ramos of El Salvador lit the fire in her wood stove and set about frying two fish, occasionally fanning the flame, aware that the smoke she inhaled could...
Women in Peru’s Poor Urban Areas Combat the Crisis at the Cost of Their Wellbeing
At five in the morning, when fog covers the streets and the cold pinches hard, Mercedes Marcahuachi is already on her feet ready to go to work in Pachacútec, the most populated area of the munic...
Water Harvesting Boosts Agriculture in Brazil’s Semiarid Northeast
“The rainwater tanks are the best invention in the world for us,” said Maria de Lourdes Feitosa, 46, who recalls the deadly droughts of the past in Brazil’s semiarid Northeast region. “Th...
Women’s Savings in Zimbabwe Struggle Under Weight of Unstable Currency
For years, self-employed and unemployed women in Zimbabwe formed neighbourhood “clubs” where they pooled money together for everything from buying bulk groceries to be shared at the end of th...
Biodigesters Boost Family Farming in Brazil
“The biodigester really gives a huge boost to those who have the courage to do things,” said Maria das Dores Alves da Silva, based on her own experience as a 63-year-old small farmer. She did...
Healthy Homes – A Right of Rural Families in Peru
Adopting a “healthy housing” approach is improving the living conditions of rural Peruvian women like Martina Santa Cruz, a 34-year-old farmer who lives with her husband and two children in t...
Peru’s Agro-Export Boom Has not Boosted Human Development
Peru’s agro-export industry is growing steadily and reached record levels in 2022. But this has not had a favorable impact on human development in this South American country, where high levels...
Women’s Cooperatives Work to Sustain the Social Fabric in Argentina
Nearby is an agroecological garden and a plant nursery, further on there are pens for raising pigs and chickens, and close by, in an old one-story house with a tiled roof, twelve women sew pants ...
Star Wars Director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy — Symbolises A Litany of Firsts For Women
The announcement by Lucas film’s president, Kathleen Kennedy, about the upcoming three new live-action Star Wars films was enough for lawyer Maliha Zia to get euphoric. But there is another rea...
Andean Indigenous Women’s Knowledge Combats Food Insecurity in Peru
Paulina Locumbe, a 42-year-old peasant farmer who lives in the Andes highlands of southern Peru, learned as a child to harvest and dry crops, one of the ancestral practices with which she c...