Tag: women
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Bananas Over Coffee: International Solidarity with Women for Sustainable Agriculture
How many cups of coffee do you drink in a day? In a week? In a month? How about a year? The dollars we spend every week eventually accumulates into thousands, financially supporting multinational corporations, allowing them to grow and expand their production. Coffee production is one of the world’s most exploitative industries that continues…
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How the women, the poorest of the poor, are taking control in leading their families to food security.
For many women, urban agriculture is a means to provide some form of food security, and a means of social interaction, self-fulfillment and escape from the obligations, relationships and hierarchies of everyday life. Though these activities were seen to empower women and challenge patriarchal relations, this also evoked resistance. Women from Inity explained how they…
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Women’s March 2020
In case you didn’t know – today marks the 4th Annual Global Women’s March. Since the 1990s, violence against women has gone from being something that only concerned feminist activists to becoming a key human rights issue around the world. The Feminist movement began in the 20th century, focusing on the reproductive rights of women. …
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Analyzing NGOs role in Women and Microfinance
Analyzing NGOs role in Women and Microfinance: A successful strategy historically designed to sustain a dependency between the rural poor and foreign donors Microfinance has become the most common approach to alleviating poverty in developing countries (Md Aslam and Chandran, 2016). The presence of microfinance in Bangladesh is the strongest in the world – dating…
April Marie Canillo 