The CGIAR research program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets recently launched an exciting blog, Engendering Data, which brings in diverse expert perspectives on collecting and analyzing sex-disaggregated data to improve the knowledge base on the role of gender in agriculture and food security. In a new post, Avoiding the Risk of the Unknown, Sonia Aker, leader >> Read more
Publication: Transnational Land Deals and Gender Equality: Utilitarian and Human Rights Approaches
This article by Poul Wosberg, published in Feminist Economics, is freely available from Routledge Social Sciences journals until June 30, 2015: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13545701.2013.862341#.VNt2_8msyuw Abstract: Transnational land deals pose vexing normative (ethical) questions, not least concerning gendered participation and outcomes. This article explores utilitarian and human rights approaches to gender equality in selected policy initiatives on the land >> Read more
Brief: Gender and Food Security – Towards gender-just food and nutrition security
This BRIDGE Cutting Edge Overview Report makes the case for a new, gender-aware understanding of food security, arguing that partial, apolitical and gender-blind diagnoses of the problem of food and nutrition insecurity is leading to insufficient policy responses and the failure to realise the right to food for all people. Showcasing effective and promising existing >> Read more
Publication: Gender-specific Approaches, Rural Institutions and Technological Innovations
A new publication from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in collaboration with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), and the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR), is available, titled: Gender-specific Approaches, Rural Institutions and Technological Innovations: Identifying Demand- and Supply-Side Constraints and Opportunities in Access, Adoption, and Impact of Agricultural Technological Innovations. >> Read more
Event: Beijing+20: Gender, Power, and Decision-Making
The Gender and Inclusive Development Workgroup Presents: Beijing+20: Gender, Power and Decision-MakingTuesday, February 24, 2015 12:30 - 2:00 PM National Democratic Institute 455 Massachusetts Ave NW, 8th Floor Washington, DCOn February 24, the SID GID Beijing+20 discussion series continues with a conversation on Point G: "Women in Power and Decision-Making," co-hosted with the National Democratic >> Read more
Event: Introducing the Violence Against Women Self-Assessment Tool: Reflections on Facilitating Reflectiveness
Activists and programmers in the global movement to end violence against women (VAW) are brave, motivated, and ever-innovating, but remain far from the finish line. Often, for good reason, they are caught up in the urgency of mobilizing communities against violence and providing survivors the support they need. Opportunities to reflect on the design of >> Read more
Publication: Gender, assets, and market-oriented agriculture: learning from high-value crop and livestock projects in Africa and Asia
A new paper synthesizing findings and “lessons learned” from four of the Gender, Assets, and Agriculture projects (LandOLakes, CARE-Bangladesh, HarvestPlus REU, and HKI Burkina Faso) is available online on the Agriculture and Human Values journal website. Abstract: Strengthening the abilities of smallholder farmers in developing countries, particularly women farmers, to produce for both home and the market >> Read more
Gender-sensitive governance e-course offered February-March 2015
This free web-based course provides participants with a general grounding in the current concepts of governance from a gender perspective and offers some examples and resources for applying these within key governance institutions, with a focus on governments. Note - this is the third in-take for this course. Previous sessions were run in September and >> Read more
Quick reads on gender and agriculture: time use, migration, and nutrition
Collecting accurate time use data is notoriously challenging, and gender norms relating to definitions of work can even further obscure accurate time use reporting. Monica Jain of HarvestPlus offers her lessons learned on addressing complexities of measuring women's time use in Bangladesh on the Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH) Gender-Nutrition Idea Exchange blog. On the SecureNutrition blog, Nitya >> Read more
Call for proposals: Growth and Economic Opportunities for Women (GrOW)
The Growth and Economic Opportunities for Women (GrOW) program has announced a new call for research proposals. This call, on the effects of patterns of growth on women’s economic empowerment aims to generate new evidence on the impact of specific growth patterns, and which public policies and interventions can ensure that the positive effects of >> Read more
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