There is currently much interest in mainstreaming gender in natural resource management, including forestry. This reader provides a collection of key articles on gender and forests published over the last 30 years.
Welcome to the first issue of the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research’s quarterly newsletter! The newsletter features highlights of gender research across CGIAR, links to selected publications, reports about the webinars organized by the Platform, and upcoming events. Reflecting on a cross-CGIAR gender research priority – gender, technologies, and institutions – this issue profiles Nicoline de Haan, the Gender…
Want to learn more about gender dynamics in poultry farming? Click here to visit African Chicken Genetic Gains’ (ACGG) awareness and communication campaign addressing gender stakes in poultry development. Over the next five months, this campaign will feature a series of web stories, pictures, videos and publications that were developed by the ACGG team to understand the current situation, and position the…
Findings from a recent CCAFS report indicates that female headed households in Uganda are less likely to be aware of climate change, and have less access to information produced through both climate information services and indigenous information systems. Researchers note the troubling nature of these findings as it reveals the lack of preparedness from many farmers, especially women, and the decreased likelihood…
Participation in household decisions and control over assets are often used as indicators of bargaining power. Yet spouses do not necessarily provide the same answers to questions about these topics. In their discussion paper “He says, she says: Exploring patterns of spousal agreement in Bangladesh”, authors Kate Ambler, Cheryl Doss, Caitlin Kieran, and Simone Passarelli examine differences in spouses’ answers…
In this paper, CCAFS reviews a range of gender, poverty, food security, nutrition and health indicators relevant for national planning processes for Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) promotion and scale out. Better integration of these indicators into CSA assessments has been identified by CCAFS as a priority to strengthen the focus on resilience/adaptation efforts, specifically highlighting evidences of gender differences.
Through a new wheat initiative, ICARDA, supported by the African Development Bank and the CGIAR Research Program on Wheat, is challenging obstacles faced by rural women. Learn more about how the initiative is designing a strategy that seeks to enhance women’s access to key inputs and services at both the community and institutional level.
The second phase of the Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project (GAAP2) aims to develop an index to measure women’s empowerment in agricultural development projects. This blog post from GGAP2 highlights the recent GAAP2 midterm workshop in Colombo, Sri Lanka, which brought together the GAAP2 community to review progress on the quantitative and qualitative studies being undertaken by GAAP2’s 15 agricultural…
EL BATAN, Mexico (CIMMYT): Read about how compiling gender-inclusive data could help scientists understand how to help improve nitrogen fertilizer application practices among smallholder farmers, according to a new research paper.
