USAID's Bureau for Food Security and Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance invite you to participate in the rollout of two assessments that have examined USAID's past performance with respect to gender integration into agriculture and food security. From these assessments, USAID has developed a series of briefs to help USAID field staff and >> Read more
Resource: In Her Name: Measuring the Gender Asset Gap in Ecuador, Ghana and India
In Her Name: Measuring the Gender Asset Gap in Ecuador, Ghana and India, is a collaborative research study of the Centre of Public Policy (CPP) at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB), University of Ghana, American University, Yale University, University of Florida and the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO), Ecuador. Housed at >> Read more
Publication: The Gender Implications of Large-Scale Land Deals
This paper strives to introduce a discussion of the gender dimensions into the growing debate on large-scale land deals. It addresses the current information gap on the differential gender effects of large-scale land deals through (1) an overview of the phases of large-scale land deals and discussion of related effects on rural men and women >> Read more
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Call for Participation: Networking on World Bank’s Gender World Development Report (WDR)
Source: http://www.awid.org/eng/Women-in-Action/Calls-for-Participation2/Call-for-Participation-Networking-on-World-Bank-s-Gender-World-Development-Report-WDR
Event (DC): Passports to Progress ICRW’s 35th Anniversary Colloquy
Join ICRW as we kick off our 35th anniversary celebration on March 8, International Women’s Day, with a conversation about breakthrough innovations poised to transform the trajectory of women’s lives. Game-changing Innovations for Women Moderator: Andrea Mitchell, NBC News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Host, MSNBC's "Andrea Mitchell Reports" Confirmed Speakers: Cherie Blair, Founder, Cherie Blair >> Read more
News: UN Agencies to launch new report on gender and work in agricultural and rural areas
Media Advisory no.: MA/01/11 Joint FAO/IFAD/ILO Media Advisory Rome, 19 January – Three United Nations agencies are to launch a ground-breaking study and a set of action-oriented policy briefs on gender and work in agricultural and rural areas here on 21 January. The findings have important implications for how economic and food price crises affect >> Read more
Publication: Does it Matter Whether Public Cash Transfers are Given to Women or Men? Evidence from the PROGRESA and PROCAMPO Programs in Rural Mexico
This paper aims at evaluating the impact of two different cash transfer programs in rural Mexico - Procampo and Progresa - on total consumption, food consumption and other outcomes like investment, schooling and health care. Progresa is targeted to women, while Procampo goes to farmers, mostly men and many of which are poor. We show >> Read more
Publication: How Do Women Weather Economic Shocks? What We Know
Authors: Shwetlena Sabarwal, Nistha Sinha, and Mayra Buvinic Do women weather economic shocks differently than men? First-round impacts of economic crises on women’s employment should be more prominent in this recent economic downturn than historically because of women’s increased participation in the globalized workforce. Second-round impacts result from the strategies that vulnerable households use to >> Read more
Article: “Parents Give Boys Preferential Treatment When There Is a Chronic Food Shortage”
In situations of chronic food shortage, parents are inclined to give boys a preferential treatment, despite the fact that the health of their daughters suffers more from food insecurity. This is shown by research from the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Ethiopia, appearing in the journal Pediatrics. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110111132217.htm
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