This abstract highlights the transformative journey of Lakshmi Devi, a farmer-turned-entrepreneur in Nandgaon, Uttarakhand, facilitated by the Mount Valley Development Association (MVDA). It emphasizes the impact of MVDA’s Farming Innovation for Women Empowerment (FIWE) project in rural development.

Through qualitative analysis, the narrative demonstrates how MVDA’s initiatives, such as women's groups, skill development, and access to government schemes like ATMA, empowered Lakshmi Devi, enabling her transition from a landless farmer to a successful entrepreneur.

As urbanization progresses, accessing nutritious and healthy foods has become challenging for households and communities due to the complex nature of food systems and poverty. The Urban Food Hives Initiative (UFH) in Uganda aims to build resilient, nutritious, equitable, and regenerative food systems in Kampala, with a focus on the voices and leadership of women and youth. Currently, most small-scale, informal actors in Ugandan food systems, including farmers, informal vendors and distributors, do not receive fair economic returns.

The document for training of trainers on agroforestry focuses on curriculum preparation in Indonesia, and specifically on increasing the income of family farmers from their kebun (housegarden or pekarangan). It offers a ToT roadmap, and its curriculum should be seen as a living document with a foreseen training time of 4 months.The document is structured on five closely interrelated core training themes: agroforestry nurseries and planting; kebun management and improvement; training facilitation and networking; field school management and agroecosystems and watershed management.