The State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) report 2010–11, launched on March 7th 2011, provides comprehensive data and analysis documenting and assessing the costs of the gender gap in access to land, livestock, education, financial services, extension, fertilizers, tools and employment opportunities. It presents sex-disaggregated statistics on a range of socio-economic indicators and compelling empirical >> Read more
Resource: Bibliography of Gender and Ag Resources
Bibliography of Gender & Agriculture Resources, Women Thrive Worldwide
New resources from USAID
In follow-up to the February FTF CSO Stakeholder Meeting focused on Gender Integration into Agriculture and Food Security Programs, the following multimedia event resources are now available. Links to the referenced new gender resources are listed below. Event Materials Ambassador William Garvelink (written remarks) Sharon Phillipps, USAID Africa Bureau (audio) Sylvia Cabus, USAID Bureau for >> Read more
Resource: The World’s Women and Girls 2011 Data Sheet: New PRB Data Sheet.
The World's Women and Girls 2011 Data Sheet: New PRB Data Sheet. The situation of women and girls around the world is gaining increased attention in a number of national and international policy commitments such as the U.S. Global Health Initiative and the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals. PRB’s new data sheet, The World's Women >> Read more
Call for FSN Network Gender Task Force Members
As many of you know, the Food Security and Nutrition (FSN) Network has been forming a number of task forces in key technical areas to foster cross-organizational collaboration, knowledge sharing around best practices, and innovation. To-date, task forces have coalesced around agriculture, social and behavior change, nutrition and monitoring and evaluation. The FSN Network task >> Read more
Publication: Gender Disparity in Access to Information: Do Spouses Share What They Know?
Publication year: 2011 Source: World Development, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 26 February 2011 Diana, Fletschner , Dina, Mesbah The United Nations (UN) has declared lack of access to information to be the third major challenge confronting women in developing countries, after poverty and violence. Analyzing a unique dataset of husbands and wives in >> Read more
Publication: Planting Hybrids, Keeping Landraces: Agricultural Modernization and Tradition Among Small-Scale Maize Farmers in Chiapas, Mexico
Publication year: 2011 Source: World Development, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 22 February 2011 Mauricio R., Bellon , Jon, Hellin This paper examines how agricultural modernization and tradition interact among small-scale commercially-oriented maize farmers by studying shifts in area and number of farmers planting hybrids and landraces. Results show substantial yield increases but reductions >> Read more
Event (DC): Capitol Hill Forum
Registration is open for the March 15, 2011 Capitol Hill Forum sponsored by the Association for International Agriculture and Rural Development (AIARD) and many other co-sponsors! Please go to the following link and register as soon as possible for this year's forum "Hunger Won't Wait": http://www.aiard.org/meetings/2011forum/index.htm At the above link you will find the following: >> Read more
Event: WOMEN IN AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA 2011
ASM COMMUNICATIONS will be hosting on the 18th and 19th of April 2011 at Indaba Hotel, Four Ways, Johannesburg, South Africa. This Conference will seek to cover the following topical issues: v Promote women's full and equal participation in African economies. v Tailor agriculture extension and technical services to women producers and increase the number of women >> Read more
Publication: Gender and sustainable forest management in East Africa and Latin America
Mwangi, E., R. Meinzen-Dick, and Y. Sun. 2011. Gender and sustainable forest management in East Africa and Latin America. Ecology and Society 16(1): 17. http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol16/iss1/art17
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