The CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research hosted the webinar ‘Typologies of change – Making sense of gender integration in agriculture and food security research‘ on Tuesday April 16 (3.00-4.30pm CET). The webinar was organized in collaboration with the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and KIT Royal Tropical Institute. Presentation and webinar recording Gender and food systems research: Key lessons…
The third and final day of the Seeds of Change conference (April 4) created space for funders’ perspectives. Indeed Jayne Curnow, Research Program manager at the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) kicked off the day by challenging us to be prepared for the backlash against gender equality, and to reach out to our colleagues who don’t understand gender…
Here is the ninth issue of the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research’s quarterly newsletter! We feature insights from the Platform Coordinator looking at the recent International Women’s Day 2019 campaign, recent peer-reviewed gender publications (including a number of publications covering key themes of the Seeds of Change Annual Conference 2019), an incredibly rich overview of CGIAR gender research in…
What is on the minds of leading CGIAR researchers as they integrate gender perspectives in pursuit of system-wide objectives? Fascinating research on the origins of (mechanized) agriculture shows that the invention and adoption of the plough in the fertile plains of the Mesopotamia revolutionized agriculture, but in the process also transformed a thriving matrilineal society into patriarchy. According to Alesina et.…
“Think equal, build smart, innovate for change” Click on the campaign below to discover the CGIAR response to new and pressing gender challenges. international women’s day 2019 by CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research on Exposure (photo credit: IRRI) The 2019 theme for International Women’s Day, 8 March, was: “Think equal, build smart, innovate for change”. On this most important date,…
