Yesterday, October 15th, was the International Day of Rural Women, a day to recognize “the critical role and contribution of rural women, including  indigenous women, in enhancing agricultural and rural development, improving  food security and eradicating rural poverty.” For more information about the UN's International Day of Rural Women, and to read Resolution 62/136 establishing it, click here. >> Read more

On Thursday, October 11, the United Nations launched a five-year initiative entitled "Accelerating Progress Toward the Economic Empowerment of Rural Women". The program seeks to empower rural women through food security and economic integration initiatives. It will be carried out jointly by UN Women, the FAO, IFAD, and the WFP. For a full article on the >> Read more

IFPRI and its partners are pleased to announce that Jessica Ham (University of Georgia), Brooke Krause (University of Minnesota), Christopher Manyamba (University of Pretoria), and Greg Seymour (American University) have been awarded a Ph.D. dissertation research fellowships on the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI). The first of its kind to directly capture women’s empowerment >> Read more

This June, the Asian Development Bank invited United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Olivier De Schutter, to the Eminent Speakers' Forum to share his views on the role of gender equality in securing the right to food. For the full text of an article he wrote on the topic of women as >> Read more

The FSN (Food Security and Nutrition) Network will be hosting an online discussion on identifying tools for gender integration in food security programming starting September 24. To join the conversation, you must be registered which you can do here. The discussion will take place here. For more information about the FSN Network, click here.

Internship to conduct a literature review on gender, agriculture and innovation The Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) program’s Theme 3 on Climate Change Mitigation seeks an intern to prepare a comprehensive literature review on gender and women's innovations in agriculture in the global south, with special attention to innovations with clear climate impacts.  >> Read more

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is now accepting grant proposals for Round 10 of Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative to encourage innovative and unconventional global health and development solutions. Applicants can be at any experience level; in any discipline; and from any organization, including colleges and universities, government laboratories, research institutions, non-profit organizations and >> Read more

Authors: Catherine Ragasa, Annie Kinwa-Muzinga, John Ulimwengu Produced by: International Food Policy Research Institute (2012) Based on the 2011 Global Hunger Index, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has the most severe level of hunger and malnutrition. There is growing recognition that development in the agriculture sector and increasing productivity will be critical to >> Read more