The Women’s Earth Alliance (WEA), USA and the Gorakhpur Environmental Action Group, India is organizing a year-long capacity building program called “The India Women, Food and Climate Change Training Program” to equip rural women leaders with appropriate solutions, knowledge and networking support to manage climate change and environmental crises to improve their food and economic security, while also ecologically managing their farms and natural resources.
This training is based on the foundation of sound gender and ecological principles to create a holistic curriculum to benefit rural women farmers. The Training will be imparted over 3 phases in 2011, starting with a main 6-day training in April 2011, followed by two shorter 3-day trainings in the months of September and November.
Grassroots Indian women leaders who are promoting the rights of women farmers and are working to improve their food and economic security by practicing ecological farming and natural resource management practices can apply. Through an application process, 40 women in teams of two will be selected from the states of Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Uttarakhand and Bihar. During the course of the first 6 day-long training program, each team of two women will work in partnership to develop an action plan for launching a project in their community related to sustainable agriculture, food security or climate change adaptation and mitigation practices that will benefit other women and their communities. All applications must be received by the midnight of March 15, 2011.
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