This is a call for papers for a special issue of UNCTAD's peer-reviewed journal, Transnational Corporation. Multinational enterprises in the agricultural and extractive sectors are increasingly adopting voluntary guidelines for economic, social, and environmental responsibility along their supply chains, but these initiatives have moved slowly and unevenly to address gender inequities and inequalities in the communities where they operate. The issue will focus on the policies, laws, sustainability standards, guidelines, and certification criteria that shape the gendered outcomes >> Read more
Call for applications: Rights and Resources Initiative conference
August 4, 2017 by Leave a Comment
The Rights + Resources Initiative is hosting the "Reducing inequality in a turbulent world: Scaling up strategies to secure indigenous, community, and women’s land rights" conference in Stockholm, Sweden October 4 - 5, 2017. They just opened a call for applications to present in the conference's Innovation Zone - an area of the conference dedicated to >> Read more
CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Issue of the journal Global Food Security – Oct 31 deadline
September 22, 2016 by 1 Comment
A special issue of the journal Global Food Security on the significance of changes in gender inequality and gender relations for food security seeks papers that address questions of how food availability, access and quality are affected by inequalities in the ways men and women operate in farming, agricultural value chains or industry as farm >> Read more
CALL FOR PAPERS: South Asian Water Studies Special Issue on ‘Water Justice, Gender, and Disabilities”
June 20, 2016 by Leave a Comment
South Asian Water Studies (SAWAS), an open access journal http://www.sawasjournal.org, has issued a call for papers for a special issue on ‘Water justice, Gender and Disabilities.' This special issue is guest edited by Alan Nicol and Floriane Clement from IWMI, and Sylvie Cordier, a Disability and Development specialist. The deadline for paper submission is 30th September 2016. SAWAS_Call for Papers - Water >> Read more
CALL FOR PAPERS: India, Gender & Food Security Papers
May 19, 2016 by Leave a Comment
CALL FOR POLICY BRIEFS/SHORT PAPERS Open Window: 12 MAY 2016 – 27 MAY 2016 The India Food Security Portal,facilitated by IFPRI, is organizing a one day workshop on Gender and Food Security in India to be held on August 29 in New Delhi. As noted in a recent blog, women’s participation in food production often goes unrecorded but >> Read more
Call for abstracts/Learning Labs for the Agriculture, Nutrition, and Health Academy Week
February 24, 2016 by Leave a Comment
The Agriculture, Nutrition & Health (ANH) Academy invites the global community of ANH researchers and users of this research to the first ANH Academy Week to be held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on 20-24 June 2016. The ANH Academy Week will be an annual event, expanding on the successful history of the five Leverhulme Centre >> Read more
Call for papers: Migration, gender and agrarian change in the Global South
February 3, 2016 by Leave a Comment
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. Abstract: There are an estimated 214 million international labour migrants and 740 million internal labour migrants worldwide. The >> Read more
