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Rural women of Bukhara and Navoi provinces have discovered opportunities to generate new income through participation in workshops on business and craft skills. The workshops were organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) under the Central Asian Desert Initiative (CADI).

«Gender equality and empowerment of women play an important role in the mandate of our organization. FAO is engaging women in alternative income-generating activities to improve their families’ livelihoods, which in turn will reduce their dependence on grazing and other agricultural activities in cold winter deserts. The workshop also facilitates reviving traditional crafts, because there is always a high market demand for such products of national applied arts», – Nariman Nishanov, National Coordinator of the CADI project in Uzbekistan said.