As many of you know, the Food Security and Nutrition (FSN) Network has been forming a number of task forces in key technical areas to foster cross-organizational collaboration, knowledge sharing around best practices, and innovation. To-date, task forces have coalesced around agriculture, social and behavior change, nutrition and monitoring and evaluation. The FSN Network task >> Read more
Publication: Gender Disparity in Access to Information: Do Spouses Share What They Know?
Publication year: 2011 Source: World Development, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 26 February 2011 Diana, Fletschner , Dina, Mesbah The United Nations (UN) has declared lack of access to information to be the third major challenge confronting women in developing countries, after poverty and violence. Analyzing a unique dataset of husbands and wives in >> Read more
Publication: Planting Hybrids, Keeping Landraces: Agricultural Modernization and Tradition Among Small-Scale Maize Farmers in Chiapas, Mexico
Publication year: 2011 Source: World Development, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 22 February 2011 Mauricio R., Bellon , Jon, Hellin This paper examines how agricultural modernization and tradition interact among small-scale commercially-oriented maize farmers by studying shifts in area and number of farmers planting hybrids and landraces. Results show substantial yield increases but reductions >> Read more
Event (DC): Capitol Hill Forum
Registration is open for the March 15, 2011 Capitol Hill Forum sponsored by the Association for International Agriculture and Rural Development (AIARD) and many other co-sponsors! Please go to the following link and register as soon as possible for this year's forum "Hunger Won't Wait": http://www.aiard.org/meetings/2011forum/index.htm At the above link you will find the following: >> Read more
Event: WOMEN IN AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA 2011
ASM COMMUNICATIONS will be hosting on the 18th and 19th of April 2011 at Indaba Hotel, Four Ways, Johannesburg, South Africa. This Conference will seek to cover the following topical issues: v Promote women's full and equal participation in African economies. v Tailor agriculture extension and technical services to women producers and increase the number of women >> Read more
Publication: Gender and sustainable forest management in East Africa and Latin America
Mwangi, E., R. Meinzen-Dick, and Y. Sun. 2011. Gender and sustainable forest management in East Africa and Latin America. Ecology and Society 16(1): 17. http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol16/iss1/art17
Event (London): Expanding Frontiers in Gender and Development
The Overseas Development Institute and The Chronic Poverty Research Centre are pleased to inform you of an upcoming public event at the ODI on 7th March, 10.00am – 12.30pm, in celebration of this year’s International Women’s Day. Expanding Frontiers in Gender and Development represents the final event in a seminar series that has sought to >> Read more
Event (NY): Focus on rural women : Invitation to three events at the UN Commission on the Status of Women, 55th session, New York
Tuesday, 22 Feb 2011, 11:30 am - 12:45 pm, IFAD-FAO- World Bank Side Event “Gender, science and Technology in Agriculture” Conference Room B (NLB) Wednesday, 23 February 2011, 11:30am – 12:45 pm FAO-IFAD-WFP Side Event “Food Security, Agriculture and Rural Women: Challenges and Prospects” Conference Room A (NLB) Thursday, 24 February 2011, 1.15 – 2.45 >> Read more
PUBLICATION: Women at the Center of Climate-friendly Approaches to Agriculture and Water Use
In a new paper, Shiney Varghese of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) examines proven agricultural practices that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and strengthen resilience to climate change through a case study of the Tamilnadu Women’s Collective in India. The collective, a federation of village-level women’s groups with over 150,000 members—the majority of >> Read more
Funding: ILO gender training
The Gender and Non Discrimination Programme of the ILO International Training Centre is pleased to inform you that:75 partial fellowships to attend the course: "Gender in the global development agenda: tools for gender-sensitive planning and implementation" are available for nationals of qualifying developing countries. See more information in the table below. The deadline to apply >> Read more
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