The Gender and Land Rights Database (GLRD) has recently launched its new and improved website in an effort to increase awareness about gender and land issues around the globe. The three major components of the site are the country profiles, gender and land-related statistics and the Legislation Assessment Tool (LAT); all specifically designed with interactive maps and scroll-down menus >> Read more

This blog was originally posted on IFPRI's website.  On March 8, IFPRI joins individuals and organizations around the world in celebrating International Women’s Day. The theme this year, “Empowering Women, Empowering Humanity: Picture It!” urges us to both celebrate connections between women and community empowerment and to envision new ways to advance the rights of >> Read more

EnGendering Data, the new blog on collecting and analyzing sex-disaggregated data, has a new post from Carmen Diana Deere discussing important considerations when interviewing male and female heads of households. The traditional survey protocol of interviewing only one person—usually the self-reported household head—assumes perfect information within the household and that the head knows about all of >> Read more

Routledge Economics is offering a free collection of journal articles and e-books on economics and gender for the month of December. A highlight for the Gender and Food Policy community is the following article: To measure is to know: A comparative analysis of gender indices  Abstract: In this paper, I present a comparative analysis of five cross-country composite >> Read more

Why is it important to close the gender asset gap, especially in agricultural development? In light of the upcoming Platform Annual General Assembly on gender and food systems,  IFPRI's senior research fellow Ruth Meinzen-Dick discusses in an in-depth interview with the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development how agricultural development projects can understand how men’s and women’s control >> Read more

Marlène Elias, Gender Specialist, Bioversity International & CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry, shares a case study in Burkina Faso on gender and landscape restoration with IUCN. She writes: The shea tree is a prime example of how considerations of gender may be vitally important for the success of landscape restoration efforts. Gendered experiences and expertise shape the >> Read more

Description: The International Potato Center (CIP) seeks an experienced social scientist, knowledgeable in the analysis of gender in agricultural development contexts, to coordinate implementation of the Gender Strategy of the CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas for Food Security and Income (RTB).   The Program:  The CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and >> Read more

ICRISAT is seeking applications from a dynamic and highly innovative Rural Sociologist to undertake applied sociological research in sub-Saharan Africa on rural food production of cereal and legume crops by small holder farmers in collaboration with a team of economists and bio-physical scientists. The Principal/Senior Scientist (Internationally Recruited Staff) will be based in Niamey, Niger >> Read more

The person and the job: The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) (www.iwmi.org) is looking for a person with a PhD in rural sociology, development studies, gender in development or anthropology, which was awarded not more than 5 years ago. The person should also have a strong analytical mind, ability to synthesize information and the ability >> Read more

Building the evidence based roadmap for women's economic empowerment Submitted by Markus Goldstein on 2013/09/18 On Monday I was at the UN Foundation's launch of a new report, A Roadmap for Promoting Women's Economic Empowerment.  Authored by Mayra Buvinic, Rebecca Furst-Nichols and Emily Courey Pryor this report provides a significant step forward in making sense >> Read more