The International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD), the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) have the pleasure to invite you to join them in celebrating the 2016 International Women’s Day at WFP Headquarters in Rome, Italy. The joint International Women’s Day event will take place on Tuesday, 08 March 2016 from >> Read more
Why paying attention to gender matters for climate change adaptation
By Elizabeth Bryan, Patti Kristjanson, and Claudia Ringler Until recently, there has been little evidence supporting the need to focus on the gendered dimensions of agriculture and climate change. Why? Because few researchers have been talking to women in agriculture as well as men--both of whom contribute to solving the food security challenges posed by >> Read more
How Women Can Maximize the Nutrition and Health Benefits of Irrigation for All
In a new A4NH Gender-Nutrition Idea Exchange post, Elizabeth Bryan builds on the agriculture-nutrition framework to examine the gendered pathways through which small-scale irrigation can affect nutrition and health outcomes. Read the blogpost here. Also, in case you missed it: In response to increasing interest in how health has bearings on the gender-agriculture-nutrition framework, A4NH organized a seminar >> Read more
USAID, IFPRI, and Landesa Panel: Women, Land, and Food
On October 27, 2015, from 9:30 AM to 11:00 AM, USAID, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Landesa will host a panel event to discuss the intersection of women's empowerment, land rights and food security at IFPRI's headquarters at 2033 K St NW, Washington, DC. The panel event is open to the public >> Read more
Takeaways from twenty years of gender and rural development research at IFPRI: Household decision making and women’s control over resources
The following blog by IFPRI gender experts Sophie Theis, Agnes Quisumbing, and Ruth Meinzen-Dick is the first in a four-part series leading up to the Policy Seminar on "Beijing +20 and Beyond: How Gender Research Is Changing the Landscape of Food Policy," to be held on October 14, 2015 at IFPRI's Washington, DC headquarters. The >> Read more
Gender 360 Summit for 2015 to target gender equality
FHI360 is hosting the 2015 Gender 360 Summit on Thursday, June 11, 2015. Visit their site to learn more about the summit, and make sure to RSVP by June 3, 2015. View the program here: Gender 360 Summit Program
UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality: now accepting proposals
UN Women's Fund for Gender Equality is pleased to announce its third call for proposals. This year the Fund welcomes submissions from women-led civil society organizations with innovative, high-impact, and multi-stakeholder women's rights and gender equality programmes that help jumpstart progress towards the Post-2015 Development Agenda. The Fund will grant applications in the areas of: >> Read more
Publication: Transnational Land Deals and Gender Equality: Utilitarian and Human Rights Approaches
This article by Poul Wosberg, published in Feminist Economics, is freely available from Routledge Social Sciences journals until June 30, 2015: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13545701.2013.862341#.VNt2_8msyuw Abstract: Transnational land deals pose vexing normative (ethical) questions, not least concerning gendered participation and outcomes. This article explores utilitarian and human rights approaches to gender equality in selected policy initiatives on the land >> 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
New article from Melinda Gates: “Putting women and girls at the center of development”
The development field needs to be more serious about gender inequities and women’s empowerment. By ignoring gender inequities, many development projects fail to achieve their objective. And when development organizations do not focus on women’s empowerment, they neglect the fact that empowered women have the potential to transform their societies. I also review the Gates >> Read more
