As part of the USAID-funded Worldfish program Enhanced Coastal Fisheries, poor and rural fishing households like Putul Rani’s receive support and training to farm fish in homestead ponds and grow vegetables for home consumption, helping to sustain their livelihoods while conserving the endangered fish population.
Common stereotypes can hinder the advance of women’s opportunities on the ground. For the International Day for Rural Women, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Agnes Quisumbing, and Sophie Theis of IFPRI dispel three common myths about rural women around the world.
For the International Day of Rural Women, Doing Good’s Amra Naidoo interviewed Maria Alejandra Garcia, an Assistant Researcher at the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) in Colombia. Maria Alejandra’s work is to understand how gender plays a role in agriculture, specifically in rice production where women’s work is often not recognized, and reveal what can be done to support rural women…
This feature on #womeninscience highlights the work of two gender researchers. Nozomi Kawarazuka is a CGIAR Gender Postdoctoral Fellow currently based in Vietnam and Bhawana Upadhyay is the Gender Research Coordinator for the CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas.
The Gender, breeding and genomics workshop organized by the CGIAR Gender and Agriculture Research Network from October 18-21 in Nairobi aims to identify the essential, “must have” ingredients of successful, gender- responsive breeding initiatives and explore implications of the revolution in genomics for new opportunities and entry points in the breeding research cycle for the effective integration of gender.
Rural women who make up nearly half of the agricultural labor force and who grow, process and produce most of our food are often not recognized for their contributions, excluded from decision making processes and lack access to information, assets and resources that could help make them more resilient. A food-secure future for us all therefore must take into account…
In this video interview, GAP Patron Prof. Catherine Bertini offers her insights into the challenges facing rural women today, and ways of helping them unleash their potential.
“Rural women contribute immensely to their households, to their communities and to their landscapes,” says Sijapati Basnett of CIFOR. “But this day goes beyond acknowledging their contributions. It’s a day to simply celebrate them.”
Dr. Ranjitha Puskur, who leads the gender research program at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) will present the annual World Food Prize Lecture, “Working with Women Farmers: What Have We Learned?” at 11 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 13,in Joe Rosenfield ’25 Center, Room 101 at Grinnell College. Dr. Puskur’s work focuses on generating knowledge, learning, and evidence that can translate…
A recent study by the CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Systems targets landless women and men that sell their labor for commercial and family farms practicing intensified agriculture. The authors quantify the gender wage gap and explore the working conditions within the agricultural sector in Saiss Morocco.
