{"id":243344,"date":"2026-09-05T09:04:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T07:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-fao-selects-sudanese-farmer-among-first-100-women-champions-in-agrifood-systems-and-rural-development\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T09:04:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T07:04:05","slug":"sudan-fao-selects-sudanese-farmer-among-first-100-women-champions-in-agrifood-systems-and-rural-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-fao-selects-sudanese-farmer-among-first-100-women-champions-in-agrifood-systems-and-rural-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: FAO Selects Sudanese Farmer Among First 100 Women Champions in Agrifood Systems and Rural Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has selected Sudanese farmer Basma Suleiman Morsal Khalil, from Sennar State, among the first 100 women champions in agrifood systems and rural development, in recognition of her contributions to rural communities and agricultural development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Basma was selected following a competitive global nomination process that received more than 600 nominations from over 131 countries, highlighting the scale of international competition and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609040818.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has selected Sudanese farmer Basma Suleiman Morsal Khalil, from Sennar State, among the first 100 women champions in agrifood systems and rural development, in recognition of her contributions to rural communities and agricultural development. Basma was selected following a competitive global nomination process that received [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":243345,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,24893,8700,14490,5989,6001,4759,257,6309,28827,254,4708,1613,7296,10564,6524],"class_list":["post-243344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-agrifood","tag-among","tag-champions","tag-development","tag-fao","tag-farmer","tag-news","tag-rural","tag-selects","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-sudanese","tag-systems","tag-women"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}