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| Agriculture the world over | 4
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Michel Kaboré and Marceline Ilboudo are small-scale farmers in Boutenga, some 30 kilometers east of Ouagadougou, capital of
Burkina Faso. They own about 3.5 hectares of land, on which they grow... | |
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| Editorial: Food sovereignty is food for thought | 5
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| ILEIA editorial team |
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| Theme overview: Women and food sovereignty | 6-9
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| Michel Pimbert |
| Most of the world’s food is grown, collected and harvested by over 2.5 billion small-scale farmers, pastoralists, forest dwellers and fisherfolk – more than half of whom are women. Women’s knowledge a... | |
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| Big business in the forest : trading forest products to increase food sovereignty in Liberia | 10-11
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| Adam Norikane |
| As in most parts of the world, women are the ones primarily responsible for household food security in Liberia. Although Liberia is blessed with an abundance of fertile land and forests, rural popula... | |
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| How can Africa feed itself? Two views | 12-13
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| Petra Bakewell-Stone, Karen Brooks |
| Of the over one billion undernourished people in the world today, 265 million live in sub-Saharan Africa. Three-quarters of the hungry live in rural areas and include farming families. A significant ... | |
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| Celebrating our jubilee - LEISA Magazine 25 years | 14-15
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| Getting food sovereignty and women's rights onto the political agenda | 16-17
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| Laetitia Jalil |
| The concept of food sovereignty gives visibility and recognition to the role of women in producing food and other agricultural goods. Getting food sovereignty onto the political agenda is very much re... | |
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| Inspired by... being part of a worldwide network | 18-19
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| Bed Prasad Khatiwada |
| Bed Prasad Khatiwada, a Nepalese horticulturalist, has received LEISA Magazine ever since he was a student, and has regularly used it as a source of information. After reading an article on plant clin... | |
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| If you don't save seed, you are not a real farmer | 20-22
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| Nico Bakker, Félix Zenén Martínez Mendoza |
| In parts of Mozambique, seed fairs have become an important tool for improving family farming and food sovereignty. The concept is simple: create a space for small farmers from different regions to co... | |
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| Women participate, everybody benefits : livestock projects in southwest China | 23-25
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| Shen Shicai, Qian Jie |
Women play an essential role in animal production in the rural northwestern region of Yunnan province, China. However,
women are often left out of extension activities and training opportunitie... | |
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| Food for sale! sovereignty on the market | 26-27
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| Our inbox for articles about women and food sovereignty contained quite a few articles dealing with local and regional food markets. We have summarised some of them to give you an idea of the variety ... | |
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| Technology alone is not enough | 28-30
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| Florence Lubwama Kiyimba |
| Introducing new technologies to improve development is not as simple as it sounds. In Uganda, a zerograzing programme was initiated to improve the food sovereignty of rural women. By confining animals... | |
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| Cuba's success story, further developed | 31-33
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| Francisco Dueñas Hurtado, Dagmara Plana Ramos, Isis Salcines, Bárbara Benítez, Laura R. Medina, María E. Domini |
| The potential of urban agriculture for feeding a growing population is becoming increasingly visible. In Cuba, “urban farms” contribute to a large extent to the island’s food self-sufficiency. As in a... | |
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| Our cultural roots give fruit : update from the field | 34-35
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| The national education curricula of many countries aim to prepare children for a “better life” in the city. They do not relate to their daily lives and do not recognise the important role that childre... | |
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| Women and land after conflict in Rwanda | 36-38
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| Marian Koster |
| Female-headed households often experience inequalities in access to resources and income-generating opportunities. Conflicts may make women poorer. But it is important to realise that conflicts also o... | |
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| Field note : Shea can contribute to food sovereignty | 39
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| Samuel Yaw Apiiga |
| Shea butter (or karité) is used in pomades and other cosmetic and pharmaceutical products worldwide. In Ghana, women use it as a cooking oil, for moistening their babies’ skins and for their hair. Chi... | |
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| Sources | 40
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| New books | 41
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| Networking | 42
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| Code of conduct needed to protect small-scale farmers from "land grabs" | 44
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| The purchase of large areas of land overseas by foreign countries and companies, the so-called “land grabs”, have led to a call for a code of conduct. Will such a code help protect small-scale farmers... | |
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