In light of growing evidence on the important role of women in agriculture, development projects are increasingly incorporating gender in their project strategies. In this blog, Sophie Theis and Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Research Analyst and Senior Research Fellow in IFPRI’s Environment and Production Technology Division (EPTD), discuss the need to differentiate and classify a project’s approach to addressing gender according to…
Gender integration has become a common topic within research and development circles. The key question is now not whether to integrate gender in a program, but how. In this post, Jemimah Njuki, Senior Program Specialist at the International Development Research Centre discusses 4 entry points for gender integration.
Important deficits in evidence and a lack of practical guidelines are holding back breeding programs from becoming more gender-responsive. This knowledge gap was the impetus for the Gender, Breeding and Genomics workshop organized by the CGIAR Gender and Agriculture Research Network in Nairobi from October 18-21, 2016. The workshop aimed to stimulate active cross-fertilization of ideas from different breeding, genomics…
Worldfish highlights the research conducted in their new paper, published in a special issue of Ambio, on how gender norms influence adaptive capacity of people of the Solomon Islands. They found distinct differences in men’s and women’s ability to find support, within or beyond their household, to navigate change and to pursue new livelihood opportunities, among other conclusions.
The 2016 Gender network annual meeting was held at CIAT headquarters in Cali, Colombia from November 1-4. A summary report and related resources are now available.
In this video Q&A, Wanjira Mathai, the Director of Partnerships for Women’s Entrepreneurship in Renewables (wPOWER) at the Wangari Maathai Institute (WMI), speaks with CIFOR about gender and climate change, and the need to empower women in order to achieve the targets set out by the Paris Agreement.
This time of year, around International Men’s Day – marked annually on 19 November with goals including recognizing men working for gender equality and positive male role models – is an opportunity to recognize and celebrate stories like Justin’s. These stories are important because they shine a light on men who embrace gender equality, even in the face of inequitable…
The current issue of the Journal of Gender, Agriculture and Food Security focuses on the intersection of gender, agricultural productivity, value chains and nutrition and contains papers from research carried out across the globe including in Cameroon, the Himalayas, Ethiopia, India and Malawi. This issue also includes a paper by Esther Njuguna (CGIAR Research Program on Grain legumes and Dryland Cereals)…
Original post from ICRISAT Agri-buzz blog. The CGIAR Gender and Agriculture Research Network Annual Meeting took place November 1-4, 2016 in Cali, Colombia. The following is a reflection piece from a meeting delegate. The CGIAR Gender and Agriculture Research Network held its annual meeting at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) headquarters in Cali, Colombia earlier this month. The meeting was attended…
More than fifty percent of scientists implementing research activities in the Africa RISING program indicate not to have sufficient access to gender analytical tools for their research. To bridge this gap, the project’s gender team has put together an annotated bibliography of gender learning resources that will ensure project partners can, at a glance, find information and links to selected…
