AWARD and the Gender Platform co-hosted the webinar “Catalyzing and Measuring Women’s Leadership and Empowerment in African Agricultural Research & Development” Thursday July 13. Click here to access the webinar recording and download the presentations.
Dr. Floriane Clement and Dr. Alan Nicol from the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) are two of the guest editors of the special issue on ‘Water Justice, Gender and Disability‘ for the journal South Asian Water Studies (SAWAS). Access the special issue here.
Ann Tickamyer and Carolyn Sachs reflect on the GRIT Workshop 2017
Read the blog post from the third and final week of the Gender Research and Integrated Training (GRIT) Workshop that took place at Pennsylvania State University from June 4 – 23.
CCAFS scientists share insights on the directions for climate action in agriculture in this special issue on climate-smart agriculture (CSA) in the journal of Agriculture for Development.
What indices are used to measure women’s empowerment? How do these indices relate to women’s empowerment in agricultural and natural resource management settings? How has economic modelling of household resource allocation changed over the past 30 years, and why does this matter? These were some of the questions that the GRIT participants delved into during week 2 of the Gender…
From June 4-23, 17 CGIAR post-doctoral fellows and gender specialists are together at Pennsylvania State University (PSU) to explore advanced gender research methods at the Gender Research and Integrated Training (GRIT) Workshop. Learn more about the workshop in this blog.
This synthesis from IFPRI demonstrates that men and women are exposed to different climate shocks, that impacts of climate change can be gendered, and that women are less likely to act to reduce their climate vulnerability. However, clear guidelines on how to address the needs of both men and women in different environments and agricultural systems are still lacking. The synthesis…
This study from the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA) suggest that including women in forest and fishery management groups in India and Nepal can result in better resource governance and conservation outcomes. However, substantial gaps in the evidence base coupled with social, economic, and ecological differences globally, make it problematic to generalise the findings from India and Nepal to other geographies.
The African Chicken Genetic Gains (ACGG) program is currently conducting an ‘in focus‘ communication and visibility campaign on gender. As part of this campaign, ACGG has created a series of postcards relating to the challenges of gender in poultry development. See the full set of postcards here.
