Presentation by Ms Zeinab Al-Momany, President, Specific Union for Women Farmers, Jordan, at the 2012 Agriculture and Rural Development Day (ARDD) in Rio de Janiero, Learning Event No. 13, Session 2: Perspectives of marginalized women farmers and their needs.

1. The Experience of the Union
Submit by: Zeinab Al-
Momany

2. Specific Union for Farmers Productive In Jordan

3. Introduction
The specific union was established at the
beginning of the year 2007. as a volunteer
union and all of its members are farmer
women. It was established because a lot
of farmer women in all over Jordan
realized the hard circumstances and big
difficulties that women face like: lack of
occupations, poverty, low standard of
living, violence, lack of a wariness, the
increase in the number of the family
members and misuse of agricultural land.

4. ‫رؤيتنـــــــا‬
‫‪The vision‬‬
‫تنمية المرأة الريفيه المزارعه التنمية الشامله {االقتصادية‬
‫و الثقافيه و االجتماعية } وتمكينها ابتداء من االردن‬
‫ووصوال للسيدات الريفيات في دول العالم الثالث‬
‫‪The vision of the specific‬‬
‫‪union Develop farmer‬‬
‫‪women Comprehensive‬‬
‫‪development‬‬

5. ‫رسالتنـــــــا:‬
‫‪The mission of the specific‬‬ ‫• رسالتنا:‬
‫:‪union‬‬ ‫• انشااااااء العدياااااد مااااان المشااااااري‬
‫‪- Establish a lot of productivity‬‬ ‫االنتاجيه و الخدماتيه الزراعيه و‬
‫. ‪and service projects‬‬ ‫خاصه المتقلعاه بزراعاه النباتاات‬
‫الطبياااااااااه و العطرياااااااااه لرفااااااااا‬
‫‪- To raise the standard of living‬‬ ‫المساااااتوع المعيشااااا و اعطااااااء‬
‫‪and give women opportunity‬‬ ‫المااااااارأا فرصاااااااة المشااااااااركه و‬
‫‪to participate and interact‬‬ ‫التفاعااال فااااي مجتمعهااااا وعقااااد‬
‫‪with the society, hold many‬‬ ‫العديااد ماان الاادورات التدريبيااه و‬
‫‪training‬‬ ‫,‪sessions‬‬ ‫التثقيفيااااااااااااه و المااااااااااااؤتمرات و‬
‫‪conferences and shows and‬‬ ‫المعاااااااااااااااااار الداخلياااااااااااااااااه و‬
‫‪establish a website for farmer‬‬ ‫الخارجيه وانشااااااء شااااابكةالمرأا‬
‫.‪women‬‬ ‫المزارعااه( عل ا االنترناات) تضاام‬
‫جميااا السااايدات المزارعاااات مااان‬
‫جمي انحاء العالم .‬

6. Impact of the case study (real or expected)
for rural women and their organisations
• SUFW is an organization which fights for women rights ,
organize them in cooperatives and unions and develop
them economically by giving them the opportunity to have
their own projects
• The law of the General Union of Jordanian farmers, which
provides that a member of the union should have possession
of the land of not less than 10 acres. We have solved this
problem .Rather than owning land women can rent land and
that makes it easy for them to be members in the Farmers
Union. Therefore we increased the proportion of women in
the General Farmer Union in Jordan from less than 1% to
8% and we aspire to increase.
• Develop them culturally by training
them and building their capacity through workshops ,
training sessions , shows and participating in national
occasions .

7. ‫االسباب التي ادت ال‬
‫انشاء االتحاد‬
The Reasons for
establishing the union

8. Face the challenges ‫مواجه ة ة ةةياا وا ة ة ة ا ا ة ة ة ا‬
and hard difficulties ‫ا صعبياا وياتع نيامنه اا سةد ا ا‬
that farmer women ‫ا ر فد ة ة ة ة ا م ة ة ة ة اا ه ة ة ة ة اا ف ة ة ة ةةرا‬
suffer. Like poverty, .‫ا بط يا ت نيامسووىاا عد ي‬
worklessness and
low standard of
living.

9. Backing up the
competitive output
of our Jordanian
production

10. Encourage farmer
women to make use ‫ت ة ة ةةادعاا لا ة ة ة ة ا ة ة ة ا‬
of agricultural ‫االس ة ة ة ةةوف ام ة ة ة ة ة ان ة ة ة ة ة ت ا‬
products and grow ‫ا ا صةةد اا ل ا دةةيا ة ا ةةيا‬
medicinal plant and ‫ا نب ت ة اا طبدةةيا ا عطر ةةيا‬
aromatic for the ‫ونو عامص اا خ‬
variation of revenue.

11. Bolstering Food Security ‫تعل لااالم اا غذائي‬

12. Spread awareness between farmer women

13. Taking Care of Environment

14. To connect the
Jordanian farmer’s
voice to all directions
and take care of her
rights

15. ‫ا ع ة ة ة ا ة ة ة اتطة ة ةةو راا وسة ة ة ئ ا‬
Working on developing ‫االس ة دلاا ل ا د ةةيا ة ا ر ة ا‬
the agricultural aids
‫ا باثاا ع ي‬
and procedures
through scientific
researches

16. One of the Union’s Projects
One of our important projects is giving small loans for farmers
to establish their own projects for: water harvesting, land
reclamation planting gardens with medicinal plant and
aromatic, and other agricultural activities for the variation of
revenue. And any other productive project.
Training courses are also funded for farmers to spread
awareness between farmer women. We take bank guaranties
to guarantee that the project will continue.
We give small loans to small number of farmers in all areas in
Jordan because we depend on grants from international
organizations.