Contents:
1. October 15 - World Rural Women's Day.
2. October 16 - World Food Day.
3. Special Issue: "Women, Agriculture and Food Security" shared by the International Center for Research on Women - ICRW.
4. Expert Group Meeting 'Gender, Science and Technology', Paris, France, 28 September - 1 October 2010.
5. Upcoming Events

International Rural Women’s Day is observed on October 15th every year. Globally, there is a number of events that take place to commemorate the day such as panel discussions, publishing of research papers, and conferences are also held to review and analyze rural women's role in society, particularly in areas such as economic improvement and agricultural development.

The PRGA Program will celebrate this important day reaching out to a group of rural women from the Cauca Valley Region in Colombia. The women, producers of grains, vegetables, flowers, milk products and processed foods, were invited to join the celebration of International Food Day at CIAT's in order to raise awareness of their pivotal role to enhance food security in their communities. The event will take place at CIAT Arches from 10 to 1 pm, on Friday October 15 . Local authorities, diplomats, representatives from rural organizations and the whole body of CIAT’s researchers will join them in celebration.

Read more (English): http://www.wikigender.org/w/index.php/World_rural_women's_day

Read more (Spanish): La mujer rural: derechos, desafíos y perspectivas

2. World Food Day Celebration, October 16, 2010.

United against Hunger, is the new FAO initiative to call for global attention to end world hunger and recognize the efforts made at national, regional and international levels. The FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf launched an online petition to reflect the moral outrage of the situation. The "1 billion hungry project" reaches out to people through online social media to invite them to sign the anti-hunger petition at www.1billionhungry.org.

Read more (English): http://www.fao.org/

Read more (Spanish): http://www.fao.org/getinvolved/worldfoodday/es/

3. Special Issue: "Women, Agriculture and Food Security". shared by the International Center for Research on Women - ICRW.

The International Center for Research on Women – ICRW- has published this special issue to analyze the differences in relation to responsibilities, limitations and interests between male and female farmers in order to design strategies that provide appropriate services, training and incomes to them. Findings and recommendations help identify sound approaches that ensure efforts to reach women as well as men farmers more efficiently.

ICRW aims to help farmers become competitive participants in the agricultural marketplace and reap the financial benefits.

To see the publication: http://www.icrw.org/what-we-do/agriculture-food-security

4. Expert Group Meeting 'Gender, Science and Technology', Paris, France, 28 September - 1 October 2010.

The United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW, now part of UN Women) in collaboration with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) organized an expert group meeting (EGM) on 'Gender, science and technology' from 28 September to 1 October 2010 in Paris, France.

The EGM explores the gender dimensions of science and technology, and identify policies and programmes that can accelerate progress towards the internationally agreed development goals, including the MDGs .

More information: http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/egm/gst_2010/index.html