Livelihoods & Economic Empowerment
There are 292 resources related to Livelihoods & Economic Empowerment.
Gender and Food Security: How Displacement Can Disrupt Traditional Roles in Agriculture-Dependent Communities
2025
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Migration Policy Institute
Gracsious Maviza, Joyce Takaindisa, Mandlenkosi Maphosa, and Thea Synnestvedt
When people are displaced, the structures of everyday life are disrupted. Existing gender roles and responsibilities often both become more intense and shape how individuals…
Gender and Food Security: How Displacement Can Disrupt Traditional Roles in Agriculture-Dependent Communities
2025
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The Online Journal of the Migration Policy Institute
Gracsious Maviza, Joyce Takaindisa, Mandlenkosi Maphosa, and Thea Synnestvedt
When people are displaced, the structures of everyday life are disrupted. Existing gender roles and responsibilities often both become more intense and shape how individuals…
Populism, Post-truth Politics and Disaster Risk: Challenges for Governance and Marginalised Communities
2025
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DRR Dynamics
Kevin Blanchard
This policy brief explores the intersection of populism, post-truth politics, and disaster risk governance, with a focus on their impacts on marginalised groups. Populism, characterised…
Conflicts and Trends to Watch in 2026
2026
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Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security
Jessica Anania, Vicka Heidt, Anna Tuohey, and Jessica M. Smith
Entering 2026, the global security landscape is defined by record-high levels of armed conflict, democratic backsliding, geopolitical fragmentation, and an accelerating climate crisis—dynamics unfolding alongside…
How Authoritarians Exploit Gender
2026
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Journal of Democracy
Elin Bjarnegård and Pär Zetterberg
Authoritarian leaders increasingly engage with gender in different ways. While some subscribe to the "anti-gender" agenda and roll back gender equality achievements, others compete over…
Hidden Hunger: The Gendered Impacts of Food Security and Malnutrition on Women and Girls in the West Bank
2026
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UN Women and West Bank Gender in Humanitarian Action Working Group
The West Bank Gender in Humanitarian Action (GiHA) Working Group produced this Gender Matters Bulletin: Hidden Hunger to highlight the gender-specific impacts of the ongoing…
Integrated Assessment of Climate-Related Security Risks for Peace and Security in Blue Nile, Sudan, and Their Gender Dimensions
2026
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UNEP
Hector Morales Munoz, Lukas Rüttinger, and Yosr Khèdr
The Blue Nile State in Sudan is grappling with a severe and escalating crisis, marked by an intensifying conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF)…
Gendered Dimensions of Climate-Related Security Risks in the OSCE Area
2026
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Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
This report examines how climate change is exacerbating security risks across the OSCE region through gendered and intersectional pathways. Drawing on policy mapping and stakeholder…
Haiti, The Impacts of Cash for Work on Food Security and Gender Equality: Impact Evaluation
2025
Haiti faces severe food insecurity and gender inequality, with nearly half the population lacking adequate food and women especially vulnerable. WFP’s Food Assistance for Assets…
Herder-Related Violence, Labor Allocation, and the Gendered Response of Agricultural Households
2026
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Journal of Development Economics
Jeffrey R. Bloem, Amy Damon, David Francis, and Harrison Mitchell
Violent conflict between nomadic herders and settled agricultural communities in Nigeria occurs as both groups clash over the use of land and natural resources, in…
Brief: Gender-Responsive Action for Women's Food Security and Nutrition in Asia and the Pacific
2026
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UN Women Asia and the Pacific
UN Women Asia and the Pacific
In 2018, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women recognized the impacts of climate change in undermining food security for women, noting that…
Climate Justice in Action: Activism and Adaptation in Eastern Africa
2026
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Bristol University Press
Katie McQuaid, Neil J.W. Crawford, Admire Mare, and Susan Nanduddu (eds.)
Eastern Africa is one of the most climate vulnerable regions of the world, and this book is the first to highlight the direct action and…
Gender Inequality, Climate Change, and Armed Conflict: Exploring the Triple Challenges for Female Farmers in Northwestern Cameroon
2025
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Society & Natural Resources
Lotsmart Fonjong and Mbuli Clodine
Armed conflict amidst climate challenges significantly impacts on men and women in sub-Saharan Africa. In dominantly agrarian communities, climate vulnerability aggravates food insecurity, especially for…
The Power of Gender: New Generation of REDD+ Action in the LAC Region
2025
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UNDP
UNDP Climate Promise
To help disseminate how these countries are using innovative solutions to undertake this work, the UN-REDD Programme is supporting the development of this case study…
Corruption and SDG5: Gender Equality
2025
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SSRN
Ina Kubbe and Giovanna Rodriguez-Garcia
This chapter examines the complex and often overlooked relationship between corruption and gender equality, focusing on its implications for achieving Sustainable Development Goal 5 (SDG…
Association Between Food Insecurity and Intimate Partner Violence: The Role of Gendered Asset Policies
2025
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BMJ Global Health
Faith Miller, Jenevieve Mannell, Laura Brown, Andrew Gibbs, and Abigail Hatcher
Introduction Intimate partner violence (IPV) affects an estimated 27% of women globally, with consequences spanning mental, physical and societal well-being. Previous research identifies individual and relational…
Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The Gender Snapshot 2025
2025
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UN Women
UN Women
The “Gender snapshot 2025” sounds the alarm: if current trends continue, the world will reach 2030 with 351 million women and girls still living in…
Sudan: Women, Food Insecurity, and Famine Risk in Sudan, Gender Snapshot
2025
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UN Women
UN Women
This fact sheet, developed by the Gender in Humanitarian Action (GiHA) Working Group Sudan, highlights key gendered trends from World Food Programme Quarter 1 2025…
Gender-Based Violence as a Barrier to Women Rights towards Socio-environmental Sustainability
2024
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Global Journal of Environmental Science and Management
A. C. Cristina De la Parra-Guerra, J. Truyol-Padilla , C. García-Alzate, and F. Fuentes Gandara
This study provides an exhaustive analysis of the intersection between gender-based violence and environmental sustainability, focusing on the Colombian experience, particularly within the context of…
How to Do Note: Designing Gender Transformative Approaches in the Context of Women’s Land and Resource Rights
2025
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ReliefWeb
International Fund for Agricultural Development
Gender transformative approaches (GTAs) aim to challenge and change the underlying social norms, power dynamics,and systemic barriers perpetuating inequality between women and men. Unlike mainstream…
Climate, Peace and Security in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
2025
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Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Katongo Seyuba
Local communities in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) face the combined challenge of climate change and violent conflict, which exacerbates vulnerabilities, poverty, displacement…
Gender Dynamics Within Food Systems in Displacement Contexts: Experiences from Displaced Populations in Nampula, Mozambique
2025
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Frontiers
Thea Synnestvedt, Gracsious Maviza, and Mandlenkosi Maphosa
In Nampula province, Mozambique, internally displaced and refugee communities live in settlements situated at the outskirts of Nampula city. This paper explores the intersection of…
Peacebuilding Perspectives and Herder-Farmer Conflicts in Africa (chapter in "Herder-Farmer Conflicts in Africa")
2025
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Palgrave Macmillan
J. Shola Omotola
This chapter proposes a peacebuilding approach to the management of herder-farmer conflicts in Africa. Specifically, the chapter reflects on the contending perspectives on peacebuilding, notably…
Pastoralism and Women’s Role in Food Security in the Ethiopian Somali Region
2025
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Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Francesco Zecca and Saima Saima
Pastoralism has a significant role in food security for ages particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, where elevated levels of food insecurity persist. The main aim of…
Evolution of Food Insecurity in Sudan during the Ongoing Conflict
2024
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International Food Policy Research Institute
Oliver K. Kirui, Khalid Siddig, Monica Fisher, Hala Abushama, Mosab Ahmed, Mariam Raouf, and Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse
Sudan's food security landscape has been dramatically impacted by the ongoing conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which…
Conflict, Aspirations, and Women’s Empowerment: Household Survey Evidence from Farmer-Herder Conflicts in Nigeria
2024
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Household in Conflict Network
Mulubrhan Amare, Lucia Carrillo, Katrina Kosec, and Jordan Kyle
Using original survey data from three states in rural, southwestern Nigeria, this study examines the relationship between conflict intensity at various distances and the empowerment…
Rural Poverty, Violence, and Power: Rejecting and Endorsing Gender Mainstreaming by Food Security NGOs in Armenia and Georgia
2021
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ScienceDirect
Anna Jenderedjian and Anne C. Bellows
Gender mainstreaming (GM) is a strategy to empower women and promote gender equality. Using mixed-methods, this study draws on perspectives of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in…
Women, Water Resource Management, and Sustainable Development: The Turkey-North Cyprus Water Pipeline Project
2018
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Resources
Emine Eminel Sülün
Women’s role in water resource management is recognized, yet the implementation of methods and strategies to get beyond gender-based obstacles to women’s equal participation in…
Bridging Generations: Pathways to a Youth-Inclusive Climate, Peace and Security Agenda
2024
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UNDP
Over 698 million young people, ages 15-35, live in fragile and conflict-affected settings. These settings are highly affected by climate change. Young people find themselves…
Where Are They and Who Are the Peasant Women of the South? The Double Invisibilisation of Women Working on the Land
2024
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Martina Di, Paula Lopez
Through socio-environmental and eco-territorial conflicts, we seek to investigate the conception of peasantry as a contextualized identity, with an unequivocal feminist approach. The peasant subject…