Last Friday AgriProFocus, together with its members, launched a one-off magazine about gender in the agri-food sector. This magazine focuses on the practical implementation of the available tools and knowledge. What are the obstacles in implementing gender strategies and how can we overcome these? What are the success stories and what can we learn from them? Click to read the online version of the magazine!
Climate change interventions in forest communities are still not getting it right when it comes to gender, a study has found. Striking new results from the Global Comparative Study on REDD+ (GCS REDD+) show that women in REDD+ sites feel worse off after interventions take place in their villages, compared with those in control sites.
This report broadly examines existing literature on frameworks and monitoring, evaluation and learning systems, as well as specific indicators and approaches for measuring gender-transformative change, particularly in the smallholder agriculture sector.
This new publication features a literature review on women’s role in agriculture from 1990 until 2016. Using a feminist standpoint theory, the study aims to answer how the world looks and operates for males and females in wheat growing households. More specifically, this literature review looks into social relationships and mediating processes (i.e. social factors mediating men’s and women’s access to resources…
Women play important roles as producers of food, managers of natural resources, income earners, and caretakers of household food and nutrition security. Giving women the same access to physical and human resources as men could increase agricultural productivity, just as increases in women’s education and improvements in women’s status over the past quarter century have contributed to more than half…
This space provides access to published research by members of the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research (which includes CGIAR Research Programs, Centers and related partners) that is available online, from journal articles, books and briefs, to brochures, flyers, fact sheets and corporate materials…
Standards for collecting sex-disaggregated data for gender analysis.
