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Event: Join us for Maximizing Nutritional Benefits from Agricultural Interventions at the Global Health Council’s 37th Annual International Conference
Monday, June 14, 2010 5:30-7:30 pm Capitol RoomYou are invited to a seminar on building positive nutritional impact into agriculture and food security interventions. The seminar will highlight key aspects of agricultural interventions that influence food security, and specific project elements that can help to maximize nutritional benefits. Participants will gain familiarity with new planning >> Read more
Event (DC): Frontline Innovations in Maternal Health Care: Meeting Africa’s Urgent Need for Skilled Midwifery and Fistula Repair
The International Center for Research on Women and AMREF are pleased to present a seminar on The provision of effective maternal health care has very clear health system requirements. The first is that community health care facilities must function and provide the basic services that save mother and newborn lives, including skilled staff, essential commodities and >> Read more
Multimedia: Women Deliver Conference Live Webstream
Women Deliver 2010, a global conference, will be held in Washington DC on June 7-9, 2010. The theme of the conference is: "Delivering solutions for girls and women," and we plan to focus on political, economic, social/cultural, and technological solutions. This global meeting will expand on Women Deliver's hallmark of inclusivity, reaching out to new >> Read more
News: Women and Power
By: Helen Clark Source: Huffington Post As Prime Minister of my country for nine years and the first woman to lead the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), I believe that achieving gender equality is not only morally right, but also catalytic to development as a whole, creating political, economic, and social opportunities for women which >> Read more
NEW FROM IFPRI ON GENDER SPRING 2010
IFPRI Discussion Papers Engendering Agricultural Research Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Agnes Quisumbing, Julia Behrman, Patricia Biermayr-Jenzano, Vicki Wilde, Marco Noordeloos, Catherine Ragasa and Nienke Beintema. A review of empirical evidence on gender differences in nonland agricultural inputs, technology, and services in developing countries Amber Peterman, Julia Behrman and Agnes Quisumbing. Patterns and Trends of Child and Maternal >> Read more
Multimedia: Who feeds the world 2010 and beyond? Gender equity in agricultural research and development Borlaug Global Rust Initiative Technical Meeting, May 31, 2010, St. Petersburg
Presentation made by Eija Pehu, Agricultural Science Advisor, The World Bank With inputs from Ruth Meinzen-Dick and team at IFPRI Access the presentation here
Publication: GENDER -SPECIFIC CONSTRAINTS AFFECTING TECHNOLOGY USE AND HOUSEHOLD FOOD SECURITY IN WESTERN PROVINCE OF KENYA
Author: Stella Mikalista Journal: African Journal of Food Agriculture Nutrition and Development The factors that hinder farm intensification process among smallholders in Kenya are many and varied. These factors are not gender neutral; they affect the ability of both men and women to achieve greater productivity in agriculture. Lack of farm intensification contributes to stagnation >> Read more
News: Port-au-Prince Earthquake: Responses must address Gender
FRIDAY FILE: The impact of natural disasters is gendered and therefore responses to these disasters must be gender responsive. Six months after the earthquake in Haiti MADRE's Yifat Susskind spoke with AWID about the gendered impact of the earthquake, and described what a gender responsive approach to addressing the crisis would look like. AWID: What >> Read more
News: For the Love of Soccer and a Lasting Sisterhood
By WILLIAM C. RHODEN NY TIMES About 1:45 p.m. Sunday afternoon, a caravan of luxury cars and sport utility vehicles roared into the park where hundreds of supporters had been waiting. President Jacob Zuma had arrived. The president was in this town, about 260 miles northeast of Johannesburg, to commemorate the life of Peter Mokaba, >> Read more
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