Female communities taking care of their forests
Women are disproportionately affected by climate change, but they are also the key to climate change solutions
Climate change impact
Climate change has a significant impact on securing household water, food, and fuel, activities that usually are the responsibility of women and girls. Research proves that educating girls and empowering women are key climate change solutions.
The gender equality advantage
Reforestation, when done with regard for gender equality, can restore degraded ecosystems, absorb carbon and empower women.
Farmstrong project supported by UN-REDD
The Swiss foundation, Farmstrong, supported by UN-REDD, gave a community in West Africa a greenhouse. This allowed the community to grow vegetables they could sell. Farmstrong also helped organize a local women’s group and taught them how to manage their money.
Holistic rural development
Farmstrong promotes resilient, holistic, structured, rural economic development, through integrated agricultural production systems.
Sustainable development
Farmstrong works with the landowners and communities so that they have alternative livelihoods and the skills to provide for themselves. This means that they have no need to turn to the forest to make money by illegal logging, charcoal production or poaching.
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