IFPRI Gender Research

A recent article on the website of the US Department of State shows how the Feed the Future Initiative, led by USAID, supports smallholder farmers and empowers women. The article details the case of the COOPAVI women's fishing cooperative in western Rwanda and how a grant through Feed the Future (FTF) allowed the cooperative to receive >> Read more

Join the conversation about gender integration in agriculture and food security during the AgrilLinks chat today, entitled "Gender in Agriculture - Not Only About Women". The chat takes place from 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm here. The guiding questions for the chat, also found here, are: 1. Gender-based violence (GBV)/violence against women: This year's theme for >> Read more

On March 3, Olivier De Schutter, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, published an op-ed in the New York Times, entitled "The Feminization of Farming". In it, he points to longstanding gender discrimination and unremunerated domestic work as barriers to women's rise out of poverty and hunger, and calls for the removal >> Read more

Landesa is now accepting applications for its second Land Rights Visiting Professionals Program. The following information comes from the Landesa website, and more information,  including the application and FAQs, can be found by clicking here. What Will the Visiting Professionals Program Entail? This is a competitive yearlong program for experienced and strongly motivated professionals who want >> Read more

USAID is a hosting a two-day facilitated online discussion, beginning tomorrow, Wednesday, January 30th. The topic of the first day is "Challenges, Successes, and Issues in Gender Integration", while the second day's topic is "What Do You Need and Next Steps for Effective Gender Integration". The event will remain active 24 hours a day and will >> Read more

The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) is a new survey-based index designed to measure the empowerment, agency, and inclusion of women in the agricultural sector. The WEAI was initially developed as a tool to reflect women’s empowerment that may result from the United States government’s Feed the Future Initiative, which commissioned the development of >> Read more

Job Title: Gender Evaluation Specialist Job Location: Washington, DC Primary Role:  The Gender Evaluation Specialist will report to the Director, Economic Development and will work as part of a team and independently to design and implement evaluation and research activities as part of a 5-year, USAID-funded project to further the evidence base on land tenure >> Read more

The Rural Women’s Action Research Project (RWAR) is based in the Law, Race and Gender Research Unit at UCT’s Faculty of Law. The project is interdisciplinary and employs qualitative action research methodologies built on partnerships with rural community-based organisations and other civil society institutions. Much of the research is done to complement strategic litigation and >> Read more