It’s a hard life for women farmers in developing countries, and mounting temperatures will make it even harder. Gender inequality means that women are more affected by climate change than men.
Great strides have been made worldwide towards gender equality and women’s inclusion, while there is still more to be done to close the gender gap. The Gender and Agriculture Partnership now involves over 600 organizations, working together to share knowledge and accelerate these processes, to give women a voice through advocacy, tools, evidence and capacities. Here are some powerful examples…
In doing our part to recognize women in science , the CGIAR Gender and Agriculture Research Network is launching a set of profiles, some of which are featured of the #womeninscience with whom we work across the CGIAR Consortium and partners. We will continue adding profiles to this page as part of our overall campaign for International Women’s Day.
The International Water Management Institute has published a call for papers for a panel session on “Migration, gender and agrarian change in the Global South” at the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) conference from August 31st to September 2nd in London. The deadline for applications is February 15, 2016.
Earlier this week, the World Bank Ground relaunched its gender data portal. In addition to standard information, new indicators include the percentage in a given economy of businesses with female ownership or top management, percentage of men and women holding mobile phone accounts, percentage of men and women who saved any money over the preceding year, and proportion of women…
As the other contributors to the Thrive discussion “What would it take to strengthen women’s land rights” affirmed: strengthening women’s land rights enhances their investments in land productivity. So what happens in matrilineal societies? What are incentives for women and men to invest in higher land productivity?
Earlier today, the International Center for Research on Women announced the winner of the inaugural Paula Kantor Award for Excellence in Field Research. After careful consideration by a diverse panel of judges, the award will be conferred to Dr. Soumya Gupta- a post-doctoral fellow with the Tata-Cornell Agriculture and Nutrition Initiative at Cornell University.
In this interview with the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH), Kelly Jones, Research Fellow with the Markets, Trade and Institutions Division at IFPRI shares an overview of gender issues in health research and then speaks about her recent research that traces how livelihood shocks increase HIV transmission.
Significant progress has been made in 2015, despite many sudden obstacles, limited resources and unlimited requests, however, there is much more to be done in the sphere of gender and agriculture, to take into account the interests of both women and men to ensure an equitable future for us all. #genderinag
