The #CGIARGoals campaign is underway. A twitter chat will take place on Wednesday, October 12 from 9-10 a.m. ET. Follow #CGIARGoals on Twitter. CGIAR will host the chat and ask a question every 10 minutes, allowing for responses and discussion after each question. Replies, follow up questions and multiple tweet answers are all encouraged.
Information on gender and access to land in Ghana is limited. In this post, the author talks about her decision to venture out of the office and use qualitative research methods to obtain first-hand impressions of how smallholder farmers in Ghana perceive their access to land.
This month’s post on the A4NH’s Gender-Nutrition Idea Exchange looks at how women’s empowerment affects nutrition outcomes in one of A4NHs priority countries, Ethiopia. In this blog post, Feiruz Yimer and Fanaye Tadesse, Research Officers at IFPRI’s Ethiopia Strategy Support Program, discuss how they use Ethiopian household survey data to investigate the link between women’s empowerment and diversity of diets.
Women’s involvement in aquaculture is lower than men’s. Women, as primary caregivers often have less time for fish farming and are often prohibited from entering ponds to harvest fish due to social barriers.
The gender, breeding and genomics workshop will take place in Nairobi, Kenya from October 18-21. View the updated workshop agenda here.
Webinar: Data sharing Date: Thursday, September 29, 2016 Time: 08:30 a.m. UTC +5 Background The International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) provides support on communications, data and information management to the CGIAR Gender and Agriculture Research Network. A key component of this initiative is to provide data and information management tools and systems to support the needs and requirements of the network…
Recently, the journal of Gender, Technology and Development released a special issue exploring gender-based disparities in resource access and its contribution to uneven production levels between men and women. As farmers continue to develop methods of climate change adaptation, unequal access to resources could prevent women from adapting at the same pace as their male counterparts.
Migration has also led to demographic shifts. In Africa and much of Asia, increasing male-out migration has transformed gender: agriculture is increasingly becoming the domain of women who stay behind, as they try to meet the food needs of the extended family while migrants meet cash needs.
South Asian Water Studies (SAWAS), an open access journal has issued a call for papers for a special issue on ‘Water justice, Gender and Disability.’ The deadline for submissions is September 30, 2016.
