In this new publication, Alessandra Galie (ILRI) and Cathy Farnworth (independent) zoom into the relational nature of empowerment. They demonstrate how individual empowerment requires the empowerment and deliberate support of others and find that community judgement and local gender norms determine empowerment outcomes.
By Nitya Chanana, consultant gender and social inclusion at the CGIAR Research program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). Gender researchers are often required to work on large projects covering multiple locations, each with unique socio-economic, agricultural, climatic and geographical features. We often shortlist the logistically most suitable research areas, often based on our organizations’ presence. This common…
During the Seeds of Change conference, we approached several people from the ‘Gender in Agriculture’ crowd to interview them on their work, on their insights about the conference and their outlook on the next frontiers of our field of research. Find an overview of all conference related outputs here. In this very special interview, we are privileged to feature eminent scholar…
Here is the tenth issue of the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research’s quarterly newsletter! This is a special issue covering the recent ‘Seeds of Change’ conference, as usual prefaced by Rhiannon Pyburn, Coordinator of the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research, for a broad sweep of recent news on the CGIAR Gender Platform and Research front! For this special…
What is on the minds of leading CGIAR researchers as they integrate gender perspectives in pursuit of system-wide objectives? More rigorous research is needed on the drivers of gender norms, with particular attention to norms which tend to limit women’s decision-making authority and ability to participate fully in economic and civic life. A host of factors may contribute to norm change.…
