A new research project, Women Improving Nutrition through Group-based Strategies (WINGS), led by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in partnership with PRADAN, one of India’s largest NGOs, and supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and A4NH, aims to evaluate the impact and pathways to impact of SHGs on women’s and children’s nutrition in India, focusing on…
Annually, World Water Day is celebrated on March 22. This year’s theme focuses on water and jobs. This post by on the Thrive blog delves into how women in Tajikistan who have always been actively engaged in agriculture, have increasingly taken on new tasks in the sector, including becoming farm managers, in response to few off-farm employment opportunities and high…
Integrating gender into research and development programs has been made a requirement of the funding and research implementation community, in the recent past. Most (if not all) of the research and development programs designed today, come with a requirement to demonstrate how gender is effectively integrated across activities.
While joint ownership does not necessarily imply that all owners have equal rights to the land, collecting these data is an important first step towards understanding the complexities of gender gaps in land rights. Quantifying men’s and women’s existing control over land is essential not only for also developing programs and policies to redress gender gaps. The post What pie…
Achieving gender parity in agriculture , is not just about women; rather it’s about the balance of power between men and women, and the distribution of mutual benefits. We need to keep pursuing policy, and legal and normative changes that level the playing field in terms of improving women’s access to land, wages, technology, training, credit and market participation. There’s…
In the dry Sahel of central Burkina Faso, the months before the harvest are tough. The granaries are empty, and forests are just a memory. Demographic, economic and environmental changes have put pressure on almost all the region’s forests, leaving a degraded landscape stricken with erosion, drought and infertile soils.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awards an international team of CGIAR researchers a $1.1 million grant to further delve into the causes of gender disparity in agriculture. This grant adds to the investments of 11 CGIAR Research Programs (CRPs), the Government of Mexico; the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); the World Bank and the CGIAR Consortium…
The plenary session addressed questions about best practices in integrating gender analysis in more technical research areas such as breeding. Discussion will also focus on the various perspectives of three international researchers who have dealt with this issue from its different aspects, using varied approaches, yet achieving success.
“Making sense of Land, Statistics and Gender”, a new infographic by the Gender and Land Rights database (GLRD) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) explores the correct use of land ownership statistics (ownership understood in a broad sense beyond individual property rights) and highlights…
The Barotse floodplain is the second largest wetland in Zambia. It is home to approximately 250,000 people, mainly subsistence farmers, who depend on the floodplain for food and livelihoods, adopting migratory farming approaches due to annual flooding of the Zambezi River.
