The CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) are pleased to organize this seminar on October 30th, 2019, 12:15 pm to 1:45 pm (EDT).Click on the link below for more information and to register for it!
To mark the International Day of Rural Women 2019 (Oct. 15), we talked with some colleagues who have used the WEAI for their research, project implementation, or to make funding decisions. See what interesting results, memorable field stories, and advice they had to share—and join the growing WEAI community.
What is needed to close the gender gap and support Africa’s woman-run farms to thrive? In this op-ed Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Senior Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute, untangles the dense web of laws, policies, programs, and customs that put women at a significant disadvantage and hampers their productivity.
CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research is pleased to mark the International Day of Rural Women – October 15th – by sharing recent and compelling gender research from across CGIAR. A video by the CGIAR System Management Office offers us a welcoming glimpse of the rationale behind and diversity of system-wide gender research. international day of rural women 2019 by CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender…
Climate change poses great risks to human development and well-being, particularly through its impacts on the global food system and on vulnerable populations in many developing countries—including those relying on agriculture for their livelihoods and the urban poor. Applying a gender lens to climate change adaptation is critical to ensure that both men’s and women’s needs and priorities are considered,…
In this webinar, panelists from the International Food Policy Research Institute and USAID will share the approaches that the Gender, Climate Change and Nutrition Integration Initiative. They will presents findings and discusses with the audience how to strengthen and scale up integration at USAID and with partners. The webinar takes place on 17 September at 9.30-11h EDT. Click to register!
In this webinar, panelists from the International Food Policy Research Institute, USAID and partners will discuss how aflatoxins relate to climate change, gender and nutrition. It will discuss the consequences of rising levels of aflatoxins and strategies already underway to address these challenges. The webinar takes place on 12 Sept on 9.30-11h EDT, click to register!
By Anika Hannan, monitoring and evaluation specialist at ICF International. Monitoring progress toward achieving global goals such as improving gender equality and women’s empowerment requires developing instruments that measure these constructs. For an abstract concept like ‘women’s empowerment’, any survey instrument must be well understood by both participants and researchers. A team from the Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project, Phase…
In this paper, researchers from the International Food Policy Research Institute and partners describe the adaptation and validation of a project-level WEAI (or pro-WEAI) that agricultural development projects can use to identify key areas of women’s (and men’s) disempowerment, design appropriate strategies to address identified deficiencies, and monitor project outcomes related to women’s empowerment.
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 interview, we feature Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Senior Research Fellow at…
