March 22, 2018 12:30pm -2:00 pm
United Nations Church Center
777 UN Plaza, New York, NY
Our presentation for the United Nations Commission on Status of Women UNCSW focuses on an Alternative Approach for Empowering Women and Girls in Peacebuilding and Conflict Prevention through innovative community agricultural practices. Our approach is called a Restorative Rural Agricultural Development (RRAD). The programme focuses on women and girls’ leadership for rebuilding communities through healing and engagement combined with agricultural practices that comprise a purpose of fostering sustainable and resilient communities for an enduring peace.
Restorative rural agricultural development builds from the necessity for healing and for rebuilding of relationships, communities and societies after conflict, violence and extreme poverty. Its goals are transformational with objectives of community reconciliation, sustainability, and resilience.
Draft Agenda
| Ms. Sahar Alsahlani, Al-Khoei Foundation
Ms. Yvonne Lodico, Founder, Grace Initiative |
Welcome |
| Mr. Neil Pierre UN DESA (tbc) | Moderator |
| Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
Head of Iraqi Delegation UN CSW |
Iraq’s Strategy for rural women and girls |
| Ambassador Isaiah Chabala,
former Permanent Representative to the UN. |
Rural Women and Girls in Zambia |
| Ms. Jessica Scott, UN SDG Academy
Yale BlueGreen Yale Alum for Non-Profit Alliance (YANA New England) |
Vermont goals for in inclusive rural sustainable development |
| Representative Amy Sheldon
Middlebury/Addison |
Legislative initiatives for inclusive, sustainable development. |
| Ms. Heidi Lynch
Vermont Farmers Food Center |
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), as a provider of health care. |
| Ms. Amy Frost
Circle Mountain Farm |
CSA’s as a facilitator for Social Justice |
| Ms. Yvonne Lodico | Q/A Conclusion |
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[1] http://www.fao.org/3/a-I7787e.pdf
[2] http://www.farmvetco.org/about-us/our-vision-mission-goals/
[3] https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/a8c5/0718d36ca6664c1b47df3cbe507113f0e050.pdf
[4] http://www.rural21.com/english/news/detail/article/the-decade-of-family-farming-00002679/