Do you work in the fields of nutrition and food security? Have you successfully integrated gender-sensitive social and behavior change (SBC) activities into your projects/programs in order to improve nutrition outcomes for pregnant and lactating mothers and children under two during the 1,000 day window of opportunity? If so, we welcome your input! We are looking for resources >> Read more
UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality: now accepting proposals
UN Women's Fund for Gender Equality is pleased to announce its third call for proposals. This year the Fund welcomes submissions from women-led civil society organizations with innovative, high-impact, and multi-stakeholder women's rights and gender equality programmes that help jumpstart progress towards the Post-2015 Development Agenda. The Fund will grant applications in the areas of: >> Read more
Live webcasts this week from the Commission on the Status of Women
Watch these events live on EmpowerWomen.org: Wednesday 11 March, 11:00 am to 12:30 pm (EDT) "Principles into Practice: Market Place and Value Chain" organized by UN Women's Empower Women Team during the annual event on the Women's Empowerment Principles (WEPs) Wednesday 11 March, 3:00 to 4:15 pm (EDT) "Unlocking domestic capital for women's economic empowerment" organized >> Read more
Call for Applications: SEED Awards 2015
Is your enterprise in a start-up phase and does it integrate social and environmental benefits, solving pressing local issues? Is it women-led? Do you need support to help to establish and grow your enterprise? If these questions apply to you, you will be pleased to hear that SEED has opened the Call for Applications for >> Read more
10 gender and development posts to celebrate International Women’s Day
Ten great posts in celebration of International Women's Day: 23 inspiring reasons to celebrate International Women's Day - UNDP Does Gender Equality Matter in Agriculture? Yes! Here's Why. - USAID Feed the Future blog 3 reasons why agricultural research should be gender-inclusive, and 3 ways to do it - an animated video from CIAT Empowering Women, Empowering >> Read more
Launch of the Journal of Gender, Agriculture, and Food Security
The inaugural issue of the Journal of Gender, Agriculture and Food Security is now available: http://www.agrigender.net/index.php Agri-Gender is an international, open access, peer-reviewed and refereed journal. The main objective of Agri-Gender is to provide an intellectual platform for international scholars to publish their research work on gender, agriculture and food security.
New blogpost on the Gender-Nutrition Idea Exchange: Interpreting Time Use Findings
Monica Jain’s blog post on women’s time use in Bangladesh from last month's Gender-Nutrition Idea Exchange generated a lot of discussion within the IFPRI gender team. Monica's findings differed from a recent IFPRI household survey in Bangladesh used to calculate the Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index, and we wanted to examine the cause of the disparity. >> Read more
Gender and Land Rights Database: launch of new website
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
Picturing Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture over 20 Years of IFPRI Research
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
The zombie myth on women’s contribution to agriculture and control of income
Does this sound familiar? “Women provide 66% of the work, produce 50% of the food, but earn only 10% of the income and own 1% of the property. We can change this.” Today in the Washington Post, the Fact Checker unravels the backstory of this "zombie statistic" on women's share of income and property. All of the >> Read more
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