{"id":3624,"date":"2024-12-01T10:57:27","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T16:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/?p=3624"},"modified":"2025-03-07T14:03:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T20:03:34","slug":"women-leading-change-sustainable-agriculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/events\/women-leading-change-sustainable-agriculture\/","title":{"rendered":"Through Her Lens: Women leading change in sustainable agriculture and market inclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Through Her Lens: Women leading change in sustainable agriculture and market inclusion\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fPHyGJmLyAU?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/www.iisd.org\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Around the world, women are coming together\u00a0to embrace sustainable farming practices and access high-value markets, including those that are voluntary sustainability standard (VSS)-compliant.<\/p>\n<p>In this webinar, we featured experts working with women farmers in Voluntary Sustainability Standard (VSS)-certified value chains. They shared insights and stories about how women have collaborated to adopt sustainable practices and improve their products, helping them reach higher-value markets.<\/p>\n<p>We heard directly about the experiences of those involved in women-led initiatives that have earned VSS certification. These stories guided a discussion on how VSS-certification bodies can better support women\u2019s groups and help them to succeed.<\/p>\n<h3>Speakers<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Nguyen Bao Thoa, Director, Vietnam Rural Industries Research and Development Institute (VIRI)<\/li>\n<li>Jacqueline Nyirandimubanzi, President, Hingakawa Cooperative<\/li>\n<li>Agnes Nyinawumuntu, Cooperative Member and Farmer, Twongere Umusaruro wa Kawa Cooperative<\/li>\n<li>Yrene Coli Rivera, Senior Gender Equality Coordinator, Better Cotton<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around the world, women are coming together\u00a0to embrace sustainable farming practices and access high-value markets, including those that are voluntary sustainability standard (VSS)-compliant. In this webinar, we featured experts working with women farmers in Voluntary Sustainability Standard (VSS)-certified value chains. They shared insights and stories about how women have collaborated to adopt sustainable practices and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":3626,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-webinar"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iisd.org\/ssi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}