The SURAJ MAL AND SHYAMA DEVI AGARWAL BOOK PRIZE Call for Nominations The International Association for Feminist Economics announces The Suraj Mal and Shyama Devi Agarwal Book Prize to be awarded biennially for a work of original scholarship in the field of feminist economics. The prize has been established by Bina Agarwal (IAFFE’s first President >> Read more
CALL FOR PAPERS: M&CN forthcoming special issue: ‘How to Strengthen Nutrition into the Health Platform: Programmatic evidence and experience from Low and Middle Income Countries’
Maternal & Child Nutrition is currently calling for papers for a special issue, USAID’s Maternal and Child Survival Program (MCSP): ‘How to Strengthen Nutrition into the Health Platform: Programmatic evidence and experience from Low and Middle Income Countries’. Guest Editors: Rafael Perez-Escamilla and Cyril Engmann. The special issue has the primary aim of bringing together >> Read more
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Studies Exploring Inequalities in Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Kenya
Funding: up to £150,000 (£50,000 for each Observatory) Applications on a rolling basis Applicants should communicate their intention to apply by 15 January. The REACH Programme is a 7-year, £15m programme funded by the UK’s Department for International Development (DfID). This project, led by the University of Oxford, involves a research consortium of global leaders >> Read more
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Post-Doc Fellowship with Tufts in Nutrition, Health, and Agriculture
Postdoctoral Fellowships on Innovative Methods and Metrics for Agriculture and Nutrition Actions (IMMANA Fellowships), sponsored by the School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts, seek to support emerging leaders in agriculture, nutrition, and health research. There are four annual rounds of 5-6 Fellowships each year. For 2018 -2019, IMMANA will grant five 12-month post-doctoral fellowships >> Read more
CALL FOR PRESENTERS: Learning Forum about Gender and Cash-based programming in Africa
The Cash Learning Partnership is hosting a learning forum about gender and cash-based programming in Africa. There is a call for presenters, with more information accessible here. The deadline for submissions is December 17, 2017. Summary of event, copied from the call for presenters: This regional learning event will bring together people interested in gender, cash >> Read more
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS & PAPERS: Agrilinks and Gender in Food Security
This November, Agrilinks is highlighting the importance of gender in food security. We’d like to invite you and your networks to contribute content on the topic. We will explore what development practitioners have learned about implementing gender-sensitive programs and policies. We hope you'll contribute with a blog post, event, discussion, sharing technical resource, or posing >> Read more
Call for Promising Practices to Advance Gender Equality, Nutrition Security, and Climate Resilience
Call for Promising Practices to Advance Gender Equality, Nutrition Security, and Climate Resilience – due Oct 7 Complete our survey form for consideration here by Friday, October 7, 2017 Across sub-sectors of rural climate resilience – including social protection, disaster risk reduction, livelihood diversification, climate-smart agriculture, among others – what are promising approaches to address gender and nutrition in project >> Read more
CALL FOR PAPERS: Special issue of Transnational Corporation
This is a call for papers for a special issue of UNCTAD's peer-reviewed journal, Transnational Corporation. Multinational enterprises in the agricultural and extractive sectors are increasingly adopting voluntary guidelines for economic, social, and environmental responsibility along their supply chains, but these initiatives have moved slowly and unevenly to address gender inequities and inequalities in the communities where they operate. The issue will focus on the policies, laws, sustainability standards, guidelines, and certification criteria that shape the gendered outcomes >> Read more
Call for applications: Rights and Resources Initiative conference
The Rights + Resources Initiative is hosting the "Reducing inequality in a turbulent world: Scaling up strategies to secure indigenous, community, and women’s land rights" conference in Stockholm, Sweden October 4 - 5, 2017. They just opened a call for applications to present in the conference's Innovation Zone - an area of the conference dedicated to >> Read more
CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Issue of the journal Global Food Security – Oct 31 deadline
A special issue of the journal Global Food Security on the significance of changes in gender inequality and gender relations for food security seeks papers that address questions of how food availability, access and quality are affected by inequalities in the ways men and women operate in farming, agricultural value chains or industry as farm >> Read more
