CAPE TOWN (Jennifer Radloff for
APC) - Women in rural areas play a central role in the agricultural
economy of their region, which means that they often work long hours,
leaving little time for learning how to use new technologies. Yet,
access to new technologies affect both men and women in remote areas.
In a new publication, GenARDIS 2002 – 2010: Small grants that made big
changes for women in agriculture Jenny Radloff explores how seed grants
that were disbursed to innovative initiatives counter these barriers
and contribute to gender-aware ICT policy advocacy. More
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MONTEVIDEO (APC) - In Uvira,
Democratic Republic of Congo, women’s cassava root crops were being
destroyed by pests but thanks to some internet training, they increased
their healthy crop production and agricultural knowledge. In the
Dominican Republic, women from an agro-processing cooperative learned
to better manage their production thanks to an ICT training -many of
them were 50 years old or more, which is “old” and “good for nothing”
by rural Dominican standards. Find out more about what GenARDIS
projects were able to achieve with small grants of about 7000
euros. More
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BOSTON (Sonia Jorge for APC) -
Illiteracy, lack of electricity and poor infrastructure are just some
of the challenges that are preventing rural women from benefiting from
ICTs. But these gender-related challenges are often
overlooked by policy makers, and policies that are developed that don’t
consider the specific context of rural men and women are more likely to
fail, as they will not meet the needs of everyone equally.
This is why the inclusion of gender must be considered in the policy
process. What exactly can local and national policy makers do
in order to address some of these issues? Policy analyst Sonia Jorge
gives some insights. More
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