DfID’s Research and Evidence Division wishes to establish a new Research Programme Consortium (RPC) on Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Security in South Asia. This is part of a 6-year program in South Asia to maintain and further expand DFID’s commitment to increase agricultural productivity and promote sustainable management of natural resources for improved food security >> Read more
Resource: Gender and Climate Change Website and Toolkit Multilingual
GenderCC has started to provide information on its website also in Spanish and in German. Step by step, the website will be translated; and we add French sections in the future. You can identify those parts which are already translated by navigating to the respective language pages via the top right flag bar. In addition, there >> Read more
Event (DC): Child Gender and Parental Investments in India: Are Boys and Girls Treated Differently?
Silvia Helena Barcellos (Rand) Leandro Carvalho (Rand) Adriana Lleras-Muney (UCLA) presented by Adriana Lleras-Muney Wednesday, February 16th 2011 World Bank Room MC3-570, from 12:30 to 2:00 PM There is considerable debate in the literature as to whether boys and girls are treated differently in India. But son-biased stopping rules imply that previous estimates are likely >> Read more
Resource: Gender and Water
Water management activities gain efficiency and impact when both women and men are involved in decision-making. Equitable access to and management of water is fundamental in promoting poverty eradication and sustainable development. This applies to women’s and men’s equitable access to and management of safe and adequate water, for domestic supply, sanitation, food security and >> Read more
News: ALINe working with the World Food Programme’s Purchase for Progress initiative to further women’s economic empowerment
ALINe is supporting the World Food Programme (WFP) in the development of the Purchase for Progress (P4P) global gender strategy. Through the P4P initiative, WFP is using its purchasing power to offer smallholder farmers opportunities to access agricultural markets, become competitive players in those markets and thus improve their livelihoods. P4P provides a particularly appropriate >> Read more
Publication: Débat sur l’accaparement des terres : et l’égalité entre hommes et femmes dans tout ça ?
Les transactions foncières à grande échelle menées par les investisseurs étrangers dans les pays en développement -- aussi désignées sous le nom d’« accaparement des terres » -- ont suscité une attention considérable ; cependant on n’a pas assez prêté attention aux spécificités de genre dans ces transactions. Une approche tenant compte de l’égalité des >> Read more
Publication: The wealth and gender distribution of rural services in Ethiopia
Over the past several years, the Ethiopian government has committed a substantial portion of the public budget to expanding public services and infrastructure in rural areas. This paper assesses who exactly is benefiting from this public spending. To do so, this paper undertakes a public expenditure benefit incidence analysis across gender and wealth groups of >> Read more
Publication: Women at the Center of Climate-friendly Approaches to Agriculture and Water – New IATP Paper
February 8, 2011 – Extreme weather events consistent with climate change are already playing havoc with the livelihoods and food security of much of the world’s poor. This is particularly true for arid and semi-arid areas of the global south. Yet, most proposals for agriculture being discussed at the U.N. global climate talks and elsewhere >> Read more
¿Dónde está el género en el debate sobre acaparamiento de tierras?
Las transacciones de tierras de gran escala por parte de inversionistas extranjeros en los países en desarrollo –también conocidas como “acaparamiento de tierras”—han generado considerable atención; sin embargo, se ha prestado poca atención a la dimensión de género de estas transacciones. Una perspectiva de género es crítica para realmente entender el impacto de las transacciones >> Read more
Resource: Intl Land Coalition advocacy toolkit
Based on materials for capacity-building in ILC’s project "Securing Women's Access to Land: Linking Research and Action", carried out in Eastern and Southern Africa from 2007-2010, ILC has developed an advocacy toolbox split into two sections: one on planning, and one on tools that do not require financial resources, but rather, focus on sensitising the >> Read more
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