Around Rural Women’s Day and World Food Day communities in Kenya, Gambia and Nepal are sending in SMS messages on land issues that are affecting them, to help create a compelling case for action both...
The women’s land rights project is being implemented by ActionAid (AA) in Guatemala, India and Sierra Leone in recognition of the hard fact that struggles for women’s land rights have not yet...
Earlier this week I was in Washington, DC to visit with staff, Board and partners of ActionAid USA, before heading up to New York to meet with some of the foundations that support ActionAid’s work....
Neneh Binta Jallow heads her own household in Moriya village in the Niamina East district of the Central River Region (CRR). The village has a population of 31 people living in 8 compounds....
In recent years, communities supported by ActionAid and its partners from around the world have suffered the negative impacts of industrial biofuels production projects and policies. While ActionAid...
What changes do we need to empower women smallholders and achieve food security? This question has been asked repeatedly over the past several decades, but transformative changes in both public...
It was indeed a global day of action with thousands of people that turned up to march together in solidarity for Climate Justice to the International Convention Centre (ICC) in Durban.This was ahead...
Ma Khin Ma Nyo, mother of six children, is a woman farmer whose home was destroyed and livelihood washed away when Cyclone Nargis hit her village in 2008.
Conservation farming is improving the lives of small scale farmers in Eastern Zambia Three years ago many families in Rafael in eastern Zambia only had enough food to eat one meal a day. Today they...
As I sit down to write this post, I have just arrived at the Tanzanian / Malawi border. A journey of 1,600 Kilometers and Malawi just like other African countries is not exempt from the effects of...
