The development field needs to be more serious about gender inequities and women’s empowerment. By ignoring gender inequities, many development projects fail to achieve their objective. And when development organizations do not focus on women’s empowerment, they neglect the fact that empowered women have the potential to transform their societies. I also review the Gates >> Read more
Call for Proposals: Horticulture Innovation Lab
The Horticulture Innovation Lab invites researchers at US public universities, along with their colleagues in developing countries, to submit proposals for five year projects that address one of the following three topics: Horticulture and Nutrition Postharvest Practices in Horticulture Gender, Social Equity, and Horticulture Each project will be funded from January 1, 2015 to August 31, >> Read more
IFPRI Gender Methods Seminars Now Online
Since June of 2013, the IFPRI Gender Task Force has been hosting Gender Methods Seminars for IFPRI staff. These seminars rose out of a need, identified by IFPRI researchers, for guidance from top researchers in the field (both from IFPRI and from other organizations) on key gender methods to incorporate in research. The seminars are >> Read more
Two new videos on gender and agriculture
The following is a new video from Danielle Nierenberg, Food Tank, and the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR) entitled "Funding Female Farmers for a Less Hungry World". [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTlvri4RIg8] The following is a training video targeting community forestry practitioners, entitled "A Fair Climate: Gender Equity in REDD+", hosted on the website of The Center >> Read more
Vacancy: Gender Research Associate Scientist
Description: The International Potato Center (CIP) seeks an experienced social scientist, knowledgeable in the analysis of gender in agricultural development contexts, to coordinate implementation of the Gender Strategy of the CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas for Food Security and Income (RTB). The Program: The CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and >> Read more
Vacancy: ICRISAT Principal Scientist/Senior Scientist -Rural Sociology (West and Central Africa)
ICRISAT is seeking applications from a dynamic and highly innovative Rural Sociologist to undertake applied sociological research in sub-Saharan Africa on rural food production of cereal and legume crops by small holder farmers in collaboration with a team of economists and bio-physical scientists. The Principal/Senior Scientist (Internationally Recruited Staff) will be based in Niamey, Niger >> Read more
IFPRI Research Brief: Community-Based Legal Aid and Women’s Land Rights
Improving women’s ability to securely access land is recognized as an effective means to increase gender equality and advance other key social and economic development goals. Despite progressive laws in many African countries, gender disparities commonly persist in women’s access and ownership of land. Although legal empowerment of women can help to strengthen their claims >> Read more
Call for Applications: AWARD Fellowships
African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD) Call for Applications for 2015 AWARD Fellowships The majority of those who produce, process, and market Africa’s food are women, but only one in four agricultural researchers is female. The AWARD Fellowship is equipping African women scientists to bridge that gap (Photo: Mike Goldwater). AWARD is a career-development program >> Read more
International Photo Competition: Forests-Agriculture Interface Through a Gender Lens
Use the gender lens to capture interesting photos with stories and help us do science with a creative twist. We make a maximum impact when we communicate about our work – success and/or failure – to a wider audience using a range of communication and social media. We believe that photos break the global language >> Read more
Investments in Women Can End Global Hunger
Commentary - Investments in Women Can End Global Hunger By Catherine Bertini *Reblogged from The Chicago Council on Global Affairs Ending hunger and ending poverty are goals on which we all agree. The world has thousands of schemes to attempt to achieve these goals, but we often overlook the simplest, most direct and effective method >> Read more
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