Rural Women: Remoteness, Rights and Violence

Self Help AfricaGender, News

We are a member of the Irish Consortium on Gender Based Violence (ICGBV), alongside Ireland’s leading international development organisations, which works collectively and with others in striving to eliminate gender based violence (GBV) in humanitarian and international development contexts. We are proud to support and to be featured in the most recent … Read More

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Ethiopian widow’s seed success

Self Help AfricaGender, News, Video

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A widow, Schmegie Kulbla is part of the solution to the problem that small-scale farmers across Ethiopia face in accessing good quality crop seed. Upwards of 90% of the country’s farmers produce their own seed from year to year, standards are poor, and often result in crop yields that are just a fraction of their potential.

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