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News: UN Agencies to launch new report on gender and work in agricultural and rural areas
Media Advisory no.: MA/01/11 Joint FAO/IFAD/ILO Media Advisory Rome, 19 January – Three United Nations agencies are to launch a ground-breaking study and a set of action-oriented policy briefs on gender and work in agricultural and rural areas here on 21 January. The findings have important implications for how economic and food price crises affect >> Read more
Resource: Platform Policy Brief on Gender & Agriculture
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Publication: New FAO/IFAD/ILO report “Gender Dimension of Agricultural and Rural Employment: Differentiated Pathways out of Poverty”.
This report reflects the latest thinking on the gender dimensions of rural poverty and employment, based on the outcomes of a recent workshop organised by FAO, IFAD and ILO. The workshop sought to deepen analysis of the gender dimensions of agricultural and rural employment, identify research gaps and examples of good practice in addressing gender >> Read more
News: KENYA– A Brand New Constitution, But Can Women Enjoy Land Rights?
Suleiman Mbatiah NAIROBI, Nov 23 - Mary Kimani wishes her husband were still alive. Holding her one-year-old son in one hand and a hoe in the other, she recounts with bitterness how she and her children lost their livelihood to her husband’s family.
Publication: 2 new papers from SIDA on gender aware approaches in ag
Gender Aware Approaches in Agricultural Programmes-- A study of Sida-supported Agricultural Programmes Access it here Gender Aware Approaches in Agricultural Progammes--A international lit review Access it here
PUBLICATION: Challenges and Opportunities for Women’s Land Rights in Post-Conflict Northern Uganda
A new Research Working Paper from MICROCON: From the late 1980s to 2006, the northern region of Uganda underwent an armed conflict between the government of Uganda and the rebel group led by Joseph Kony. The conflict displaced virtually the entire population in the region, and by 1990 people were living in Internally Displaced Peoples’ >> Read more
Publication: Input Choices in Agriculture: Is There A Gender Bias?
Publication year: 2010 Source: World Development, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 28 October 2010 Susan E., Chen , Priya, Bhagowalia , Gerald, Shively This paper examines evidence of gender biases in the decisions of agricultural households, utilizing data from International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics’s village level studies in India (1975–85). The >> Read more
Multimedia: MDG 3 and Liberia
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News: Gender Bias Holds Back Africa Women Agricultural Researchers, Business Daily Africa, August 6
A report released in June 2010 by ActionAid International shows that small holder farmers, majority of whom are women, are responsible for 90 percent of food grown in Africa and produce about a half of the world’s food supply. Yet the women scientists are rarely involved in scientific agricultural research or leadership positions in that >> Read more
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