Gender equity is a concept not yet widely understood throughout Ukraine, yet many contemporary social problems were caused or aggravated by the persistence of unequal gender roles. These roles stemmed from deeply rooted traditional and cultural stereotypes of women’s work and women’s roles....
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Agroecology means farming in ways that not only produce hearty harvests and healthy animals but also apply a healing touch to the earth. Heifer defines agroecology as socially, culturally, economically, politically and ecologically sustainable agricultural production...
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High level of poverty, unemployment, alcoholism and other associated problems lead to the situation, when parents are unable to care for their own children. Subsequently, they are left at the mercy of the state, but the state –owned child-care institutions can barely make ends meet. According to the statistics less than 25% of the governmentally allocated budget actually reaches these orphanages.
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Heifer-Ukraine is actively working on local, national and international policy-development in the fields of promoting traditional agricultural products with prospective GI/ PDO status produced by rural communities in Ukraine (pilot projects in the field of ); state support of agricultural service cooperatives . The promotion of traditional products is also discussed through the prism of remunerating positive externalities for rural communities.  read more>>

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