Every day, we waste good food. Globally, about one-third of all food produced for human consumption is either lost or wasted. This amounts to around 1.3 billion tons every year that is wasted.
There are very few things in the world as important to life as water. On a molecular level, water can be found inside many cells and allows everything inside the cells to take the right shape.
In our “Pathways to Careers in Development” series, MEDA interviews staff members about their journey towards careers in international development.
MEDA’s Technical Director, Gender Equality and Social Inclusion, Jen Denomy co-authored the article “Greater Rural Opportunities for Women (GROW): A Multifaceted approach to poverty alleviation at scale, recently published in the Enterprise Development & Microfinance Journal. Co-written with Jennifer Gurbin Harley, an international development consultant and former MEDA colleague, it features a case study that describes the project’s systematic approach to poverty reduction.
When Gosberth, a 44-year-old father of four children from Tanzania, looks back at his journey as a Cassava Seed Entrepreneur (CSE), it reminds him of what it took to get there: hard work, commitment, and a lot of networking.
Selemani lives in Lindi region, Tanzania. For most of his life, he has been a farmer and grows cassava, sesame, and cashew nuts. At first, he only grew cassava for his food. His perspective later changed when he learned of the many opportunities to grow cassava as a cash crop.
Thirty-six-year-old Eugenia embraces the ups and downs of being a single mother. She works hard and plants sunflowers and maize to provide for her family. Eugenia also grows cassava crops, but at first, only for food.
Public perception of gender equality issues runs in a repetitive cycle. We’ve all seen it. A scandal breaks out, or a study discovers yet another damaging disparity. Think pieces are written, hands are wrung, and companies promise to do better. Then the public’s attention moves on until another cycle starts. Actual change comes very slowly, if at all.
Almost one in ten people in the world become ill after eating contaminated food and 420,000 die every year. More than 30% of those deaths are of children under the age of five. The numbers are most certainly higher when underreported figures are considered.
From May 11th to May 15th, women philanthropists walked 132 km (82 miles) on a converted rail walkway from Guelph to Goderich. Over four days, they walked and shared great conversations for the Guelph to Goderich to Ghana walk (G2G2G) to raise funds for women farmers in Ghana for MEDA’s GROW2 project.
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