Breaking Barriers through Women's Cooperatives in Nepal

When women are empowered to build entrepreneurial businesses, improve their incomes, and gain financial independence, family nutrition also improves, particularly for women and children.

Across Heifer International programs, trainings on gender, finance and nutrition, along with interventions across the value chain, are improving the operations of farmers' cooperatives. In Nepal, a systems wide approach is breaking barriers to position women into cooperative leadership and more ownership in the value chain, elevating women’s status at the household and community level and improving gender equity and nutrition across the country.

In celebration of International Women's Day, join a conversation between Neena Joshi, Heifer International Senior Director of Asia Programs for Cooperative Development, and Dr. Laurie Miller, child nutrition expert and Professor of Pediatrics, Tufts University School of Medicine, on how leadership roles and business ownership - from kulfis (ice cream) in a dairy cooperative to goats for festival season - can #breakthebias to improve incomes for women smallholder farmers and maternal child nutrition.