The ASTI initiative and the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) are currently calling for proposals for papers for their jointly convened conference, “Agricultural R&D: Investing in Africa’s Future: Analyzing Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities,” to be held in Accra, Ghana, 5–7 December 2011. The deadline for paper proposals is 15 January, 2011. For more >> Read more
Publication: “Supply Shocks and Gender Bias in Child Health Investments: Evidence from the ICDS Programme in India,”
Chakravarty, Abhishek (2010) The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy: Vol. 10 : Iss. 1 (Topics), Article 88. This paper examines whether a permanent increase in the supply of immunisations reduces or intensifies the gender bias in immunisation against female children in India. It also investigates the effect of duration of exposure to the >> Read more
Publication: Gender, Poverty and Environmental Indicators on African Countries
This report is published by the Statistics Department of the African Development Bank Group. The publication provides some information on the broad development trends relating to gender, poverty and environmental issues in the 53 African countries. Gender, Poverty and Environmental Indicators on more...
Event: TEDx ‘Igniting Change: the Gender Match’
Over the past few decades, development researchers and practitioners have spent countless resources trying to identify the perfect recipe for development policies and programs to follow when tackling food security, malnutrition, and poverty in poor countries. In this talk, we turn to three speakers from the development research community who make the powerful argument that >> Read more
Event: TEDWomen Reshaping the Future
How are women and girls reshaping the future? The first-ever TEDWomen invites men and women to explore this question in depth. From the developing world, where a single microloan to a single girl can transform a village, to the West, where generations of educated women are transforming entire industries, women are powerful change agents, intellectual >> Read more
Publication: 2 new papers from SIDA on gender aware approaches in ag
Gender Aware Approaches in Agricultural Programmes-- A study of Sida-supported Agricultural Programmes Access it here Gender Aware Approaches in Agricultural Progammes--A international lit review Access it here
Publication:Do Spouses Realise Cooperative Gains? Experimental Evidence from Rural Uganda
Publication year: 2010 Source: World Development, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 12 November 2010 Vegard, Iversen , Cecile, Jackson , Bereket, Kebede , Arjan, Verschoor , Alistair, Munro We use experimental data from variants of public good games to test for household efficiency among married couples in rural Uganda. Spouses frequently do not maximise >> Read more
Resource: Women’s Access to Land in Southern and Eastern Africa
Participants from over 20 IDRC-funded research projects on gender and land in 14 African countries presented their work, including ILC project partners in the “Securing Women’s Access to Land: linking research and action” project in Eastern and Southern Africa. Presentations and summaries of projects presented at the Symposium can now be found on the IDRC >> Read more
PUBLICATION: Challenges and Opportunities for Women’s Land Rights in Post-Conflict Northern Uganda
A new Research Working Paper from MICROCON: From the late 1980s to 2006, the northern region of Uganda underwent an armed conflict between the government of Uganda and the rebel group led by Joseph Kony. The conflict displaced virtually the entire population in the region, and by 1990 people were living in Internally Displaced Peoples’ >> Read more
Opinion: Bringing women out of the shadows By MICHELLE BACHELET
Since democracy was restored two decades ago, Chile has worked hard to progress in areas as essential as the reestablishement of the rule of law, the protection of human rights and the consolidation of freedom, stability and governance as well as economic growth, social progress and freedom of the press. Chile has grown faster than >> Read more
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