Events and Celebrations
International Day of rural women -2018
FAO, IFAD, WFP, UN Women, the Food Gardens Initative and the SDG 2 Advocacy Hub organizing a joint event in celebration of the International Day of Rural Women (A/RES/62/136) in 2018. Focusing on the leadership and contributions made by rural women to their communities and to sustainable development around the world.
The Day highlights rural women as powerful agents of change and essential partners in the fight against poverty, hunger, malnutrition and climate change and in the effort to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. It also aims to call attention to some of the specific barriers and challenges that many rural women continue to face.
The International Day of Rural Women (IDRW) was established by the General Assembly through Resolution 62/136 in December 2007, and is now celebrated annually on 15 October. From as early as the First World Conference on Women, held in Mexico in 1975, and again in the 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the situation and challenges faced by rural women have been a focus of the international community.The Food Gardens Initiative was very proud to host the celebration and speakers Rose Nzapa Ayeke and Karen Washington.
Celebration of the Paris Agreement
and Earth Day - 2016
In 2016 the United Nations invited world leaders to its New York Headquarters for a special ceremony to sign the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, a historical document agreed upon in December of 2015 in an effort to limit global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees Celsius.
On Earth Day 2016 the official theme was Trees for the Earth, and the Food Gardens Initiative celebrated forests by planting a tree at UNHQ. UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson and the President of the General Assembly Mogens Lykketoft, among other officials, took to their shovels to dig a hole for a new flowering tree on UN grounds! We love our flowering dog wood tree!
