Land
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Improving the Socioeconomic Status of Rural Women Associated with Agricultural Land Acquisition: A Case Study in Huong Thuy Town, Thua Thien Hue Province, Vietnam
2019
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Land
Nhung Pham Thi, Martin Kappas, and Heiko Faust
Since the 2000s, agricultural land acquisition (ALA) for urbanization and industrialization has been quickly implemented in Vietnam, which has led to a huge socioeconomic transformation…
The Lives of Women in a Land Reclamation Project: Gender, Class, Culture and Place in Egyptian Land and Water Management
2019
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International Journal of the Commons
Edwin Rap and Martina Jaskolski
This article links feminist political ecology with the academic debate about commoning by focusing on the gendered distribution of common pool resources, in particular land…
Role of Women in Environment Conservation
2019
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Social Science Research Network
P. Mago and Isha Gunwal
Growing population and technological advancement are continuously putting a strain on the environment and on country’s natural resources. Over-exploitation of the country’s resources like land,…
Resettlement Post Conflict: Risk and Protective Factors and Resilience among Women in Northern Uganda
2018
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International Social Work
Joanne N. Corbin and J. Camille Hall
Approximately 1.8 million people were displaced in northern Uganda as a result of the LRA conflict. This paper explores risk and protective factors as well…
Land Governance in Post-Conflict Settings: Interrogating Decision-Making by International Actors
2019
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Land
David Betge
Humanitarian and development organizations working in conflict-affected settings have a particular responsibility to do no harm and contribute to the wellbeing of the population without…
The Gender Gap in Land Rights
2018
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FOA, CGIAR
For rural women and men, land is often the most important household asset for supporting agricultural production and providing food security and nutrition. Evidence shows…
Towards Gender-Responsive Implementation of Extractive Industries Projects
2019
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The Danish Institute for Human Rights
Nora Götzmann, Linnea Kristiansson, and Julia Hillenbrand
Women and men are impacted differently by extractive industries projects. Despite this, extractive industries companies frequently take a gender-neutral approach to human rights due diligence,…
Lessons from Environmental Peacebuilding Programming
2019
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K4D
Sian Herbert
This rapid literature review collates lessons from conflict resolution/peacebuilding programmes that include land, resource management, and/or environmental issues. This is a burgeoning area of research…
Climate Change Impacts on Gender Relations in Bangladesh: Socio-Environmental Struggle of the Shora Forest Community in the Sundarbans Mangrove Forest
2019
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Springer
Sajal Roy
This book explores gendered perceptions of the Sundarbans Forest in Bangladesh, and the extent to which these perceptions are affected by extreme weather events (specifically,…
Empowering Women Means Taking a Stand for Environmental Rights
2019
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UN Environment
The Samburu, a pastoralist indigenous tribe from the vast semi-arid and arid rangelands of Northern Kenya, face many of the same challenges as other indigenous…
Empowering Women on the Front Lines of Climate Change
2019
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UN Environment
On any given morning in the locality of Al-Rahad in Sudan, women like Hawa Abdullah, dressed in bright colours, can be seen turning up the…
Shoring Up Stability: Addressing Climate and Fragility Risks in the Lake Chad Region
2019
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adelphi
Janani Vivekananda, Martin Wall, Florence Sylvestre, Chitra Nagarajan, and Oli Brown
The people of Lake Chad are caught in a conflict trap. Violent conflict between state security forces and armed opposition groups, poor governance, endemic corruption,…
Land and Conflict Prevention: How Integrated Solutions Can Help Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals
2019
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FriEnt – Working Group on Peace and Development
Marc Baxmann and Caroline Kruckow
Furthering interlinkages between different Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), the Working Group on Peace and Development (FriEnt) and its partners have compiled a dossier with good…
Leveraging Co-benefits between Gender Equality and Climate Action for Sustainable Development: Mainstreaming Gender Considerations in Climate Change Projects
2016
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UN Women
In September 2015, world leaders from 193 nations adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at the United Nations General Assembly. While some have hailed…
Women as Environmental Stewards: The Experience of the Small Grants Programme
2018
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The GEF Small Grants Programme
Women make up half of the world’s population and are fundamental to the achievement of global environmental benefits and the Sustainable Development Goals. As primary…
Women and Natural Resources: Unlocking the Peacebuilding Potential
2013
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UN Environment, UNDP, UN Women, and UN Peacebuilding Support Office
Silja Halle, Adrienne Stork and Cassidy Travis
This report focuses on the relationship between women and natural resources in conflict-affected settings, and discusses how the management of natural resources can be used…
Mujeres y Recursos Naturales: Liberando el Potencial Para la Consolidacion de la Paz
2013
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UN Environment, UNDP, UN Women, and UN Peacebuilding Support Office
Las diversas experiencias de las mujeres en tiempos de conflicto tienen poderosas implicaciones para la consolidación de la paz. Su capacidad para recuperarse del conflicto…
Contemporary Feminist Analysis of Australian Farm Women in the Context of Climate Changes
2018
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Social Sciences
Margaret Alston, Josephine Clarke, and Kerri Whittenbury
Climate changes are reshaping agricultural production and food security across the world. One result is that women in both the developed and developing world are…
Vulnerability of Women to Climate Change in Arid and Semi-Arid Regions: The Case of India and South Asia
2018
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Journal of Arid Environments
S.S.Yadav and Rattan Lal
This article is a collation and synthesis of the literature review with the focus on the vulnerability of rural women in developing countries to climate…
Gender, Smallholder Livestock Production, Improvement and Conservation in Africa
2014
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Scientific Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences
Never Assan
Policy makers, developmental agents and researchers are now aware of the need to incorporate gender issues in smallholder livestock production planning and development in order…
Gender and Conservation Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review
2019
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International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability
Frederick M. Wekesah, Edna N. Mutua, and Chimaraoke O. Izugbara
Conservation agriculture (CA) involves the practice of concurrent minimum tillage, permanent soil cover using crop residue, and crop rotation. Evidence indicates that CA increases agricultural…
Gender and Environment Statistics: Unlocking Information for Action and Measuring the SDGs
2019
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UN Environment
This report seeks to provide a framework to measure the nexus between gender and the environment. It proposes 18 gender-environment indicators for inclusion in the…
Gender and Climate-Induced Migration in the Mediterranean: From Resilience to Peace and Human Security
2018
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MediTERRA: Migration and Inclusive Rural Development in the Mediterranean
Monia Braham
The research presented in the following sections explores the interaction between gender, migration and climate change, as well as the way forward for a proactive…
Climate Change, Conflict, and Peacebuilding in Solomon Islands
2019
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Conciliaton Resources
Kate Higgins and Josiah Maesua
This paper considers the conflict impacts of climate change and outlines potential opportunities for peacebuilding in Solomon Islands, a small independent state in the region…
The Intertwined Relationship between Power and Patriarchy: Examples from Resource Extractive Industries
2019
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Societies
Nadine Naguib Suliman
This study examines the relationships between extractive industries, power and patriarchy, raising attention to the negative social and environmental impacts these relationships have had on…
Women as Decision Makers in Community Forest Management: Evidence from Nepal
2019
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Journal of Development Economics
Marinella Leone
In many developing countries women are responsible for the collection and management of forest products essential to the daily lives of their household. However, women are often…
Towards Transformative Change: Women and the Implementation of the Colombian Peace Accord
2019
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ReliefWeb
ABColombia
Women and women’s civil society organizations (CSOs) were told for two years, when they tried to raise the situation of women and women’s rights in…
Leveraging Voluntary Sustainability Standards for Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment in Agriculture: A Guide for Development Organizations Based on the Sustainable Development Goals
2019
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International Institute for Sustainable Development
Kathleen Sexsmith
Gender equality and women’s empowerment in agriculture remain pressing challenges across the Global South. Food insecurity; unequal access to land, productive resources and education; the…
In the Law & on the Land: Finding the Female Farmer in Myanmar's National Land Use Policy
2017
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Journal of Peasant Studies
Hilary Olivia Faxon
This paper draws upon 12 months of activist research in Myanmar to examine how bureaucrats, activists, international development experts and rural women represented the female…
Women Building Peace
2024
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Conciliation Resources
This volume looks back at a wealth of women’s peacebuilding practice documented by Accord since 1998. Case studies from Cambodia, Sierra Leone, northern Uganda, Papua…