The CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research hosted the webinar ‘Pathways from women’s group-based programs to nutrition change in South Asia: A conceptual framework and literature review’ on Wednesday May 9. The webinar was organized in collaboration with the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH) and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). Webinar recording webinar recording Click…
“Time is Now: Rural and urban activists transforming women’s lives International Women’s Day 2018 by CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research on Exposure (photo credit: S.Quinn / CIP) The 2018 theme for International Women’s Day, 8 March, was: “Time is Now: Rural and urban activists transforming women’s lives”. This theme inspired the CGIAR gender community to reflect on the role…
Welcome to the fourth and final issue of the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research’s quarterly newsletter for 2017! The newsletter features a message from the Platform coordinator, highlights of gender research across CGIAR, links to selected publications, reports about the webinars organized by the Platform, and upcoming webinars and events. Bimbika Sijapati Basnett from the Center for International Forestry…
In this blog post, Rhiannon Pyburn, Coordinator of the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research, reflects on highlights from the First Annual Scientific Conference and Capacity Development Workshop.
In the newly published Ag4Dev special issue on “Women in agriculture: negotiating and networking”, Rhiannon Pyburn reflects on the mandate of the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research, and the role of the Platform in drawing out higher level questions that are relevant for gender researchers across CGIAR Research Programs and Centers.
This paper by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) describes the cognitive interviews undertaken in Bangladesh and Uganda in 2014 as part of the second round of pilots intended to refine the original version of the Women’s Empowerment in Agricultural Index (WEAI). The purpose of cognitive interviewing is to systematically identify and analyze sources of response error in surveys, and to use…
This journal article by the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) argues that stylized facts and statistics distract from major gaps in data on gender and food security, including women’s land tenure, control over assets, and work burden, including domestic responsibilities. Read the article here.
Join the webinar “Webinar: The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index – What have we learned?” hosted by the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM). The webinar will take place November 17, 2017, 10:00 AM EST. Click here to register.
Click here to read the third issue of the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research’s quarterly newsletter. Enjoy!
In this book chapter, IFPRI and CCAFS tackles the nexus of CSA, gender, and nutrition, providing an integrated conceptual framework with entry points for action as well as information requirements to guide interventions in the context of climate change.
