In much of the Global South, the face of farming is female. Rural women have crucial knowledge & experience on living sustainably with the earth’s resources rather than extracting them, & putting self and collective care into practice. Just ask Betty 👇#RuralWomensDay

Mary Bakia, our CENDEP coordinator is among the four female voices from different countries, who share accounts of hurdles women face in working to protect their communities - collected by the Global Alliance for Green and Gender Action earlier this year.

Restored forests and farmland can create hundreds of thousands of rural jobs. Using analog forestry gives the restoration a unique form - imitating natural forests. unenvironment.org/news-and-stori…

This #IWD2021 join our campaign March 8-22 to highlight women’s role, demands and actions in the fight for water in the face of #ClimateChange. GAGGA bit.ly/3bUOaSQ

After getting hit by Hurricanes Eta & Iota during the pandemic, the women of Honduras’ Sula Valley continue to resist hydroelectric plants in an area long considered the heart of transnational occupation. #IWD2021 @fcmujeres GAGGA bit.ly/3sNxDXB

NigerDelta is the world's 3rd largest mangrove forest which stores carbon 4x more than traditional rainforests, but it may disappear in the next 50 years due to oil spills & nipa palms.Let's do something about it🌱bit.ly/3rh8Mv0 GAGGA Lokiaka Community Development Centre Mama Cash

In a drought-stricken region of South Africa most water is used to supply local coal mines, drying up the communities' taps & rivers. CSOs & women from 200 rural communities are calling on their govt to address these urgent water demands👇bit.ly/3bfj4q3 #WeWomenAreWater

Agro-industrial interests caused forest fires to devastate Bolivia's Chiquitanía & pollute its scarce water. The women defending life amid the flames demand access to water, its restoration & an end to indiscriminate logging. #WeWomenAreWater bit.ly/2OJ4JsN

Communities on Java, Indonesia, whose livelihoods were dependent on springs & rivers, have lost their incomes after a geothermal energy project muddied their waters. The women are demanding the project be stopped. #WeWomenAreWater bit.ly/3t0WJT4

The only source of water for communities in an arid area of Zimbabwe has been contaminated by chemicals discharged by a gold mine. To gain access to clean water, women are repairing boreholes & lobbying to drill new ones. #WeWomenAreWater bit.ly/3rHKzOP #muondetrust

The Rositas dam in Bolivia is predicted to flood 45,000 ha of mostly forested area, affecting over 500 rural families. It was thanks to the leadership of local women that a lawsuit temporarily paralyzed the project. #WeWomenAreWater #RightsofRivers bit.ly/3sGkgsi

The Q'eqchi' women of Santa María Cahabón, GT, have been at the forefront of the resistance against dams that are "killing the river," their main & sacred source of water— fighting on as community leaders are persecuted. #RightsofRivers #WeWomenAreWater bit.ly/38BcN6b

Adivasi women living close to India’s Zawar mines saw their water turn black, leading to poor crop yields & health issues. They mobilized themselves to understand their rights & speak out. #WeWomenAreWater bit.ly/3vjDFkR

Deforestation, mining & municipal mismanagement are destroying the Motagua River in Guatemala. A group of rural young feminists are using art and community organizing to protect the river as well as the women & youth of the territory. #WeWomenAreWater bit.ly/3tnjC39

Coal mines operating in Mongolia's Omnogovi province used drinking water to separate sulphur from coal, leading to the disappearance of 14 local rivers. Women-led groups representing 200 affected families temporarily stopped them.

Only nuclear explosions are louder than the sound waves emitted from seismic oil exploration, which are impacting wildlife & the local communities' food source in the Bolivian Amazon. Indigenous women are making their water demands known #WeWomenAreWater bit.ly/2Q7oYBc

Faced with water scarcity & oil-contaminated waters, the women of Entre Rios, Bolivia, are holding trainings & raising awareness about efficient water use & management, as well as constructing water harvesting tanks. #WeWomenAreWater bit.ly/3vDt9Fe

The trees of Peru’s Madre de Dios rainforest play a fundamental role in the water cycle that provides millions of ppl w/ water. The women-led org Arbio is protecting them from a growing timber industry. #WeWomenAreWater #IntlForestDay bit.ly/389eS9e

What happens when #water isn't available to those most vulnerable to #COVID19? This is a question women & communities across Africa are grappling w/ as they demand their govts guarantee them this basic human right #WeWomenAreWater #WorldWaterDay bit.ly/3c33D4o

Along the 2nd largest river in Indonesia, rice fields have transformed into coal mines & children have drowned in some of the 200 abandoned pits in the area. The women are uniting to take legal action against the govt. #WeWomenAreWater #WorldWaterDay bit.ly/3c5fcZ2