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CSD (and other) documents, processes, national reports, links, etc. on Agriculture at http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/agri.htm Biotechnology at http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/biot.htm

DIVISION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF WOMEN - DAW The Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW) is responsible for servicing the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), the main UN policy-making body for women. It also services the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), which monitors the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, a human rights treaty for women. DAW acts as a focal point for coordination and mainstreaming of gender issues in the United Nations system. It has been the Secretariat of the four UN world conferences on women: 1975 (Mexico), 1980 (Copenhagen),1985 (Nairobi) and 1995 (Beijing). This site contains links to the full text of most of the major official United Nations documents and General Assembly resolutions on women, a few of which are specifically on rural women. Includes links to full texts, including documentation on the Fourth World Conference on Women and its follow up (gopher://gopher.un.org/1/conf/fwcw/off) complete with background papers and regional reports, as well as the Secretary General's report on the Improvement of the Situation of Women in Rural Areas gopher://gopher.undp.org:70/00/undocs/gad/A/50/95_10/257-Rev.1 http://www.undp.org/fwcw/daw.htm

WORLD FOOD SUMMIT The site presents the full text of the Rome Declaration and the Plan of Action arising out of the 1996 World Food Summit, where rural women figure prominently. http://www.fao.org/wfs/homepage.htm

SD-DIMENSIONS, WOMEN AND POPULATION (FAO) The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations has a unit called the Women in Agriculture and Rural Production Service (SDWW), under the Women and Population Division of the Sustainable Development Department. Their web site includes FAO's Plan of Action for Women in Development, as well as numerous on-line analysis papers on rural gender issues, and a bibliography of FAO's publications in this area. Information can also be gleaned on current FAO activities in the area of gender and agriculture. http://www.fao.org/WAICENT/FAOINFO/SUSTDEV

UNIFEM - EARTH SUMMIT This site features UNIFEM's web pages dealing with the Earth Summit's Agenda 21 and its references to women, as well as followup actions. http://www.unifem.undp.org/gasummit.htm

WORLD BANK'S GENDERNET This site describes how the Bank promotes gender equality, summarizes knowledge and experience, provides gender country profiles, and contains a section to facilitate discussion on gender. The Bank seeks to improve gender equality through its programs and projects, and to enhance the efficiency and sustainability of its operations by considering gender aspects." The site features writeups on good practices, research, links, statistics, country gender profiles, policy documents, bank programmes and projects, and an online newsletter prepared by the World Bank. http://www.worldbank.org/gender/< /P>

USDA RURAL DEVELOPMENT DIVISION This Web Site features current news on US Government activities in the area of women/gender and agriculture - for example, President Clinton's declaration in support of World Rural Women's Day, and up-to-date information on the upcoming International Conference on Women and Agriculture (see Conferences). http://www.rurdev.usda.gov

THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT'S DEPARTMENT OF Primary Industries and Energy (DPIE) provides descriptions of web sites and links that relate to Australian Government policies, programmes and projects, as well as other information specifically related to Australian women in agriculture.
http://www.dpie.gov.au/rural/women/women-index.html

AUSTRALIAN DPIE RURAL WOMEN WEB LINKS

WOMEN'S ACTION AGENDA 21 This site features the text of the Action Agenda of the World Women's Congress, from the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), presenting for a Healthy Planet held in Miami, Florida, November 8-12, 1991. This conference was in preparation for the Rio Conference in 1992. Includes actions on land and food security, environment, biodiversity and biotechnology. http://iisdl.iisd.ca/women/action21.htm

WOMEN'S ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION (WEDO) WEDO's web-site provides WEDO and Women's Caucus documents, statements, speeches, and other materials online, including documents for the International Conference on Population and Development, the Fourth World Conference on Women, the Commission on Sustainable Development, the World Summit for Social Development, and Women's Action Agenda 21, as well as WEDO newsletters. http://www.wedo.org

A web site belonging to the AWIA (an NGO working in favour of rural Australian women) which also provides links to other sites especially of interest to women in Asia and the Pacific.
http://www.awia.org.au/

AUSTRALIAN WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE (AWIA)

AWID - ASSOCIATION FOR WOMEN IN DEVELOPMENT AWID is the world's largest association of people and organizations dealing with general women and development issues. AWID runs an interactive web site that "will allow members to access information on WID/GAD organizations and events, find critical advocacy information, network with each other in real time chat rooms, and search for information in their WID/GAD resource database." The site is under construction and will contain a membership directory, including biographical data on many gender and agriculture experts, and links to organizations that are members. http://www.awid.org

CENTRE FOR RURAL SOCIAL RESEARCH - RURAL WOMEN LINKS PAGE Hosted by Charles Stuart University, this site provides a set of links and a list of email discussion groups of interest mainly to rural women in Australia. http://www.csu.edu.au/research/crsr/links/linkwomn.htm

CGIAR GENDER RESEARCH NETWORK The Gender Research network is sponsored by the CGIAR Gender Program to "link researchers at CGIAR centers, national research institutes, and universities who are involved in gender and intra-household research." Information on the network as well as the network's online newsletter can be found at the web site; information on the Gender-CG list can be found under Discussion Lists. http://www.cgiar.org/ifpri/themes/m p17/gender/gender.htm

ICRW PROWID The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) and The Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA) are working in partnership on a grants program, Promoting Women in Development (PROWID). This four-year program supports innovative pilot interventions, operations research, and advocacy activities that strengthen efforts to reach women and enhance their full participation in the development process. Funded by the Office of Women in Development at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), PROWID seeks to improve the lives of women in developing countries and economies in transition by promoting development that is based on practical insights gained from field-tested interventions. This site provides descriptions of various projects that are being implemented with rural women. http://www.icrw.org/prowid.htm

LANDCAREWEB - WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE This site provides a list of Web sites and discussion lists of relevance to Australian women involved in agriculture. http://www.agfor.unimelb.edu.au/LCweb/lclibrary/womenag.html

WOMEN, EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT - LEADER II LEADER II is a European Union initiative dedicated to promote the development of disadvantaged rural areas of the European Union. This site contains online documents presenting analysis of the situation of rural women in the European Union. http://www.rural-europe.aeidl.be/rural-en/biblio/women/contents.htm

RURAL WOMYN ZONE A web site for rural feminists mainly in the United States but certainly of broader interest. This site contains numerous links both to documents and to organizations covering a broad range of items of interest to academics, practitioners and farming feminists. http://www.wowwomen.com/ruralzone/frontpage.html

	SUMMIT ON THE THE ECONOMIC ADVANCEMENT OF RURAL WOMEN Information on the summit, its resolutions and meetings of the Steering Committee can be found piecemeal at several sites: - Queen Fabiola's address to the opening of the Second Meeting http://belgium.fgov.be/
	WOMEN AND RURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (WRED) WRED is a Canadian NGO working on Canadian women's rural enterprise development and offers broader support to rural business women. Their site includes an online bibliography with many interesting sources dealing with this topic, which is of potential interest to non-Canadians as well. http://www.wred.org/

WOMEN IN AG This site is run by Agriculture Online (a private firm that publishes magazines such as Successful Farming) and is of interest mainly to rural and farm women in the United States. It provides some links, as well as summaries of news and journal articles of interest to farm women and others concerned with them, dealing with topics such as problems of female farm partners, stress among farm couples, farm women and technology, and successful women farm managers. http://www.agriculture.com/contents/sf/women/wagcont.html and http://www.agriculture.com/

WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE: FARMING FOR OUR FUTURE This Web Site belongs to the Centre for Rural Social Research of Charles Stuart University in Australia and presents information about the 1st International Conference on Women in Agriculture held in 1994 in Melbourne. http://www.csu.edu.au/research/crsr/ruralsoc/v4n2p29.htm

WORLD RURAL WOMEN'S DAY A web site constructed by the International Federation of Agricultural Producers (IFAP), the Women's World Summit Foundation (WWSF) and Associated Country Women of the World (ACWW) to promote World Rural Women's Day on the 15th of October. http://www.rural-womens-day.org

WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE The National Farmers' Union is the democratic organisation representing farmers and growers in England and Wales. Farm Women’s contribution to Agriculture and their training needs http://www.nfu.org.uk/pubs/women.asp

RURAL ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION, an international NGO, based in Winnipeg, Manitoba (Canada), dedicated to the conversation and sustainable improvement of agricultural biodiversity, and to the socially responsible development of technologies useful to rural societies. RAFI is concerned about the loss of genetic diversity - esp. in agriculture - and about the impact of intellectual property rights on agriculture and world food security. http://www.rafi.org

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WORLD SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE ASSOCIATION "The ultimate goal of WSAA is to promote sustainable farming, food distribution, consumption, and biocycling systems throughout the world. We promote systems and public policies that enhance local and regional food security, in ways that are economically viable, socially just, and environmentally harmonious with Nature." http://www.igc.apc.org/wsaala/wsaa.html

INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF ORGANIC AGRICULTURE MOVEMENTS The worldwide umbrella organisation of the organic agriculture movement, with about 770 member organisations and institutions in some 107 countries all over the world http://www.ecoweb.dk/ifoam/

INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCERS Since the creation of IFAP in 1946, agricultural organizations have joined forces to eliminate food shortages caused by the Depression in the 30's and World War II. At the dawn of the third millenium, they are ready to ensure the security of the world's food supply. To this end, farmers from sixty countries come together in IFAP to pursue the following goals: to improve the economic and social status of all who live by and on the land; to ensure the security of the world's food supply; to promote the creation and strengthening of independant farmers' organizations in every country. http://www.ifap.org/