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
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
PUBLICATION: Women at the Center of Climate-friendly Approaches to Agriculture and Water Use
In a new paper, Shiney Varghese of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) examines proven agricultural practices that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and strengthen resilience to climate change through a case study of the Tamilnadu Women’s Collective in India. The collective, a federation of village-level women’s groups with over 150,000 members—the majority of >> Read more
Publication: Débat sur l’accaparement des terres : et l’égalité entre hommes et femmes dans tout ça ?
Les transactions foncières à grande échelle menées par les investisseurs étrangers dans les pays en développement -- aussi désignées sous le nom d’« accaparement des terres » -- ont suscité une attention considérable ; cependant on n’a pas assez prêté attention aux spécificités de genre dans ces transactions. Une approche tenant compte de l’égalité des >> Read more
Publication: The wealth and gender distribution of rural services in Ethiopia
Over the past several years, the Ethiopian government has committed a substantial portion of the public budget to expanding public services and infrastructure in rural areas. This paper assesses who exactly is benefiting from this public spending. To do so, this paper undertakes a public expenditure benefit incidence analysis across gender and wealth groups of >> Read more
Publication: Women at the Center of Climate-friendly Approaches to Agriculture and Water – New IATP Paper
February 8, 2011 – Extreme weather events consistent with climate change are already playing havoc with the livelihoods and food security of much of the world’s poor. This is particularly true for arid and semi-arid areas of the global south. Yet, most proposals for agriculture being discussed at the U.N. global climate talks and elsewhere >> Read more
¿Dónde está el género en el debate sobre acaparamiento de tierras?
Las transacciones de tierras de gran escala por parte de inversionistas extranjeros en los países en desarrollo –también conocidas como “acaparamiento de tierras”—han generado considerable atención; sin embargo, se ha prestado poca atención a la dimensión de género de estas transacciones. Una perspectiva de género es crítica para realmente entender el impacto de las transacciones >> Read more
FAO/IFAD/ILO publication: “Gender Dimension of Agricultural and Rural Employment: Differentiated Pathways out of Poverty”
This report, accompanied by seven policy briefs, reflects the latest thinking on the gender dimensions of rural poverty and employment. They provide evidence that rural women have the potential to lift their households and communities out of poverty but are hampered by persistent gender inequities. These inequities limit their access to decent work, which is a >> 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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