Read our annual review On Gender and Agriculture, 2016: A Year in Review, where we look at what has been done in gender across the CGIAR and as a network this past year.
The 2016 International Year of Pulses has brought global attention to the important roles that pulses play in food, environment, and livelihood systems around the world. In her work that looks at the intersection of gender, social norms and innovations, Esther Njuguna-Mungai, Gender Research Scientist of the CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes, talks about the different effects that pulse…
This High-level Event, at FAO Headquaters in Rome, Italy on December 16, will provide an interactive platform to address the structural causes and consequences of gender inequality in rural areas and to identify the main challenges, gaps, opportunities and collaborative actions for unleasing the potential of rural women and girls to end hunger and poverty.
As we move forward, and explore the role of women and their identity in the context of agriculture, it is critical to move away from identifying them as simply farm women, or farmers’ wives (except in a situation where it is indeed the case) but more so as farmers given their significant contributions to agriculture.
In Asia, 58% of migrants are men, creating a “feminization of agriculture”, where women are left in charge of the home and the farm without having access to many of the services, institutions and markets which men access. From December 17-20, scholars, practitioners and government officials from across Asia will gather at the South China Agricultural University (SCAU) in Guanghzhou…
By reducing early marriage, we are closer to eradicating other related issues such as child stunting and improving gender parity. IFPRI’s Policy Research and Strategy Support Program have collected data which shows substantial decline in this practice and is looking to better understand why early marriage trends are changing in rural Bangladesh.
USAID’s Land Matters For Women’s Empowerment newsletter highlighted by an upcoming core module for USAID’s Land Tenure and Property Rights Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), where Yale University professor Cheryl Doss discusses how access to land and natural resources can impact the lives of women and their families, how ownership and control can mean different things for men and women,…
In this analysis piece, Markus Ihalainen of the CRP on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry, goes over both the current opportunities and limitations of the Lima Work Program on Gender being extended at COP22.
A round-up of recent publications by CCAFS and partners examine the impact of climate change on health, livelihoods, and food security through a gendered lens.
