Many pervasive “myths” about gender roles in agriculture are largely inaccurate. This time on GNIE, Monica Schuster and Isabel Lambrecht challenge these myths using their analysis of 20 years of data from Ghana. Read the full blog on the A4NH Gender-Nutrition Idea Exchange.
To celebrate the International Day of Rural Women on October 15th, the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research illustrates how gender research in agricultural and natural resource domains is contributing to improving the lives of rural women. Access our campaign here.
The CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research hosted the webinar “Rural youth and livelihood change” Thursday October 18. Access the webinar recording here.
This working paper by CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) reviews climate change related policies and strategies in East Africa through a gendered lens. Findings show that all four countries include gender terms within their various policies, programs and plans. All the documents reviewed indicted that they were drafted after a gender analysis on climate risks, impacts and vulnerability.
This study by Bioversity International and FTA, together with partners, underscores the need to reframe the issue of ‘women’s participation’ to capture inequalities among women from different ethnic groups. The study concludes with recommendations for enhancing gender equality and social inclusion in JFM. Access the study here.
Rural women are often the gatekeepers of nutrition and health in their families. This month the Gender Nutrition Idea Exchange (GNIE) under A4NH commemorates the International Day of Rural Women with a blog by Josephine Boyle highlighting the ways HarvestPlus considers gender roles and women’s empowerment in their efforts to introduce and scale up biofortified crops.
A Study conducted by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) in Vietnam shows that women and men diverge in how they receive, share, understand, and use weather-related information. The study calls for gender responsive dissemination strategies for agro-advisory designs. Click here to learn more.
This article by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and partners show that although organizations have access to research on climate change from various sources, more is needed to identify entry points for gender integration into climate change adaptation programmes across a range of local contexts. Lack of staff capacity on gender, lack of funding to support gender integration, and…
This blog post asks what is interdisciplinarity in the context of CGIAR and how do we move towards it? How do we come together? What needs to be done and more so, how can it be fostered as we move into this new phase of CGIAR Research Programs? Access the blog here.
This brief from the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) that elaborates on the gender-differences in agro-climatic information services.
