
Where food finds its value
Across West Africa, women farmers are learning how to ensure their effort to nourish communities is recognized—and valued.
September 1, 2026
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Across West Africa, women farmers are learning how to ensure their effort to nourish communities is recognized—and valued.
September 1, 2026

We recently spoke to Mariamé Ouattara, who has worked across West Africa to advance gender equality and women farmers’ rights for most of her life.
September 1, 2026

In your September Bulletin, we explore how agroecology is more than a set of farming practices.
September 1, 2026

See women farming for climate solutions in West Africa.
August 24, 2026

For 50 years, food has been at the heart of Inter Pares’ work with counterparts.
November 7, 2025

When local shellfish gatherers in the Bijagós Archipelago of Guinea-Bissau noticed declining stocks of the mollusks, they knew what to do.
September 22, 2025

In your September Bulletin, we highlight counterparts’ local solutions to the impacts that conflict, climate change and corporate control have on food systems.
September 22, 2025

Watch a video series highlighting the expertise and leadership of women and youth facing the climate crisis in West Africa.
July 15, 2025

In September, Inter Pares welcomed seven feminist leaders from West Africa for an agricultural learning exchange.
April 29, 2025

From September 20 to 30, 2024, Inter Pares accompanied a West African delegation to meet with farming communities and feminist activists in Quebec and Canada—the Equality in the Field Tour.
January 15, 2025