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
Interview with Ruth Meinzen-Dick on reducing the gender asset gap through agricultural development
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
The South Asia Women’s Resilience Index
The Economist Intelligence Unit has created a new index that finds that South Asian countries largely fail to consider the rights of women in their disaster risk reduction (DRR) and resilience-building efforts. The Women’s Resilience Index (WRI), commissioned by ActionAid, with support from the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, assesses the extent of women’s >> Read more
Policy Reform toward Gender Equality in Ethiopia: Little by Little the Egg Begins to Walk
A new article by IFPRI researchers Neha Kumar and Agnes Quisumbing in World Development is available open access here. Summary: There is growing interest in how reforms in different policy areas can be formulated in order to be consistent in promoting gender equality and empowering women. We use data from the Ethiopian Rural Household Survey (ERHS) to >> Read more
When Women Flourish…We Can End Hunger
The 2015 Hunger Report, When Women Flourish…We Can End Hunger, released by Bread for the World Institute, identifies the empowerment of women and girls as essential in ending hunger, extreme poverty, and malnutrition around the world and in the United States. “Eliminating barriers and empowering women around the world is key to ending hunger in our >> Read more
Enhancing women’s assets to manage risk under climate change
A new volume of policy notes summarizes the findings from the project "Enhancing Women's Assets to Manage Risk under Climate Change: Potential for Group-Based Approaches." From the IFPRI Research Program on Climate Change, Collective Action, and Women's Assets, the notes in this collection explore how to protect or strengthen women’s control over critical assets, including natural >> Read more
Landesa publishes women’s land rights guides & infographic on women’s land rights
View original announcement here: http://www.landesa.org/news/landesa-publishes-womens-land-rights-guides-for-development-practicioners/ The Landesa Center for Women’s Land Rights has created four new practice guides, which are practical resources for development practitioners, researchers, lawyers, advocates, and scholars to assess the situation for women’s land rights in three countries: Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. They address both the formal legal structure and the customary framework >> Read more
Missing: The Forgotten Women in India’s Climate Plans — new film from CDKN
New film from the Climate & Knowledge Development Network: Missing: The forgotten women in India's climate plans With a rapidly changing climate that is already having massive impacts on Indian people’s daily lives, the absence of policies and plans supporting millions of working women in their ability to deal with these new challenges needs to >> Read more
New technical guide on reducing the gender asset gap through agricultural development
IFPRI has produced a new technical guide, Reducing the Gender Asset Gap through Agricultural Development. This technical guide, an output from IFPRI’s Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project (GAAP), explains the importance of assets—both tangible such as land, labor, and animals and intangible such as education, financial capital, and social networks—for development, and the wide gap that >> Read more
Launch of online portal for Gender and Social Inclusion Toolbox
Earlier this year, the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) together with partners, launched a Gender and Social Inclusion Toolbox for development research via a live-streamed event. We’ve now put the final touches on a platform dedicated to the toolbox, found here, which we encourage you to check out! Here >> Read more
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