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Report of the Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance on Ecological Crisis, Climate Justice, and Racial Justice
2022
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UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
E. Tendayi Achiume
In the present report, the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance highlights the racially discriminatory and unjust roots…
Environmental Degradation and Genocide
2022
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Genocide Studies and Prevention
Emily Sample and Henry Theriault
In January 2021, the International Association of Genocide Scholars and Genocide Studies and Prevention journal hosted three panels on Environmental Degradation, Climate Change, and Mass…
Women, Peace and Security and Land Reform
2022
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Overseas Development Institute
Clare Castillejo and Pilar Domingo
Peacebuilding processes involve a wide range of change or reform processes through which the rules of political, social and economic exchange are contested and renegotiated…
The Gender Dimensions of Resource Conflicts in Ghana: Deconstructing the Male-Centric and Binary Outlook of Communal Conflicts
2022
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Contemporary Journal of African Studies/Institute of African Studies
Deborah Atobrah, Benjamin K. Kwansa, and Dzodzi Tsikata
The literature on gender and conflicts in Africa is dominated by essentialised and narrow male-centric constructions of conflict and stereotypes of female victimhood which obscure…
Indigenous and Rural Women's Voices: Recommendations to Address Climate Security Risks in Colombia
2022
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DCAF
Linda Sánchez Avendaño
From an ecofeminist and human security perspective, this study aims to contribute to filling this existing gap by developing actionable recommendations that can be replicated…
Women Speak: The Lived Nexus Between Climate, Gender and Security
2022
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DCAF
Megan Bastick and Camille Risler
A growing body of research recognises the gendered impacts of climate change, and how these are impacted by armed conflict. Women often bear the brunt…
Sustainability, Ecology, and Agriculture in Women Farmers’ Voices: Culture-Centering Gender and Development
2020
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Communication Theory
Mohan Jyoti Dutta and Jagadish Thaker
The neoliberal/neocolonial transformation of agriculture in the global South is achieved through the hegemony of expert-led interventions of privatization that erase the knowledge of agricultural…
Pastoral Coping and Adaptation Climate Change Strategies: Implications for Women's Well-Being
2022
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Journal of Arid Environments
Sarah E. Walker, Brett L. Bruyere, Jennifer N. Solomon, Kathryn A. Powlen, Apin Yasin, Elizabeth Lenaiyasa, and Anna Lolemu
Pastoral women in the semi-arid rangelands of East Africa are significantly burdened by the vulnerability to and responsibility for responding to changing climates.
Toward a Feminist Agroecology
2021
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Sustainability
Haley Zaremba, Marlène Elias, Anne Rietveld, and Nadia Bergamini
In this paper, we review HLPE’s 13 defining principles of agroecology through a feminist lens to demonstrate the ways in which human dimensions and power…
Taking Food Out the Private Sphere? Addressing Gender Relations in Urban Food Policy
2021
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Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems
Marina Di Masso, Daniel López-García, Julia Clemente-Longás, and Verónica García-García
Urban food policies are increasingly considered central instruments for the promotion of food systems sustainability. As for their social sustainability, justice and equity are expected…
Public Policies for Agricultural Diversification: Implications for Gender Equity
2021
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Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
Vivian Valencia, Hannah Wittman, Andrew D. Jones, and Jennifer Blesh
Gender equity is recognized as central to sustainable development, but women still face significant constraints in accessing and controlling productive resources important for agricultural livelihoods.…
Disasters, Gender and HIV Infection: The Impact of the 2010 Haiti Earthquake
2021
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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Mar Llorente, Yolanda Fontanil Gómez, Montserrat Díaz Fernández, and Patricia Solís
Although disasters threaten all people who experience them, they do not affect all members of society in the same way. Its effects are not solely…
Climate Change Adaptation and Population Dynamics in Latin America and the Caribbean
2015
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Wilson Center
Kathleen Mogelgaard
Latin America and the Caribbean face multiple risks from a changing climate, from sea level rise to glacial melt to extreme weather and disease. Recent…
Gender and Natural Resource Extraction in Latin America: Feminist Engagements with Geopolitical Positionality
2021
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European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Susanne Hofmann and Melisa Cabrapan Duarte
This article resituates the debate on approaches to gender in contexts of natural resource extraction in Latin America and, subsequently, outlines an intersectional, feminist proposal…
Feminist Resistance Building in the Brazilian Agroecology Movement: A Gender Decoloniality Study
2021
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Gender, Work and Organization
Flávia Naves and Yuna Fontoura
The agroecology movement in Brazil has politically mobilized the importance of feminism in its slogan. Considering that domination over women persists in the postcolonial context…
Is Push-Pull Climate- and Gender-Smart for Ethiopia?
2021
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Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems
Ryan W. Kopper and Morgan L. Ruelle
Across sub-Saharan Africa, climate change is exacerbating pest problems for smallholder farmers. Push-pull technology (PPT) is an agronomic package designed to reduce the effects of Striga and…
Gender Inequality and Land Rights : The Situation of Indigenous Women in Cameroon
2019
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Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal
Ester E Njieassam
Land is an essential resource that serves as a means of subsistence for millions of people in the world and indigenous communities and women in…
Beyond Ownership: Women's and Men's Land Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa
2021
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Oxford Development Studies
Vanya Slavchevska, Cheryl R. Doss, Ana Paula de la O Campos, and Chiara Brunelli
Advancing women’s land rights is a priority for the international development agenda. Little consensus exists, however, on which rights should be monitored and reported, especially…
Using a Gender-Responsive Land Rights Framework to Assess Youth Land Rights in Rural Liberia
2020
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Land (Basel)
Elizabeth Louis, Tizai Mauto, My-Lan Dodd, Tasha Heidenrich, Peter Dolo, and Emmanuel Urey
This article summarizes the evidence on youth land rights in Liberia from a literature review combined with primary research from two separate studies: (1) A…
Land Reform and Welfare in Vietnam: Why Gender of the Land‐Rights Holder Matters
2017
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Journal of International Development
Nidhiya Menon, Yana Rodgers, and Alexis R. Kennedy
Vietnam's 1993 Land Law created a land market by granting households tradable land-use rights. This study uses mixed methods to analyze whether increased land titling…
Adaptive Strategies to Deforestation Among Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPS) Collectors Across Gender Line in Oluwa Forest Reserve Area of Ondo State, Nigeria
2020
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Agro-Science
Olawale Julius Aluko, A.A. Adejumo, and Ayodotun Bobadoye
Forest and the goods and services they provide are essential for human livelihood and wellbeing. An assessment on the likely impact of deforestation on NTFPs…
Indigenous Women's Struggles to Oppose State-Sponsored Deforestation in Chhattisgarh, India
2017
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Gender and Development
Sulakshana Nandi and Samir Garg
In Chhattisgarh state, nearly half the land area is covered with forests that are essential to the livelihoods and culture of the indigenous communities there.…
Gender, Land Distribution, and Who Gets State Funds To Stop Deforestation in Argentina
2020
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Journal of Environmental Management
Isabella Alcaniz and Ricardo A. Gutiérrez
Defining Solutions, Finding Problems: Deforestation, Gender, and REDD+ in Burkina Faso
2015
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Conservation and Society
Lisa Westholm and Seema Arora-Jonsson
Open-Pit Peace: The Power of Extractive Industries in Post-Conflict Transitions
2021
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Peacebuilding
Kate Paarlberg-Kvam
Three years after the peace accord signed by the Colombian government and the country’s largest guerrilla group, the guerrillas announced a return to arms. The…
Nexus between Financial Inclusion, Gender and Agriculture Productivity in Ghana
2020
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Theoretical Economics Letters
Blessing Amos Atakli and Wonder Agbenyo
The concept of infrastructure, education, availability, usage, affordability, inequality, and accessibility of funds remains useful in agricultural productivity. Nonetheless, the most instrumental challenge of rural…
Disrupted Gender Roles in Australian Agriculture: First Generation Female Farmers’ Construction of Farming Identity
2021
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Agriculture and Human Values
Lucie Newsome
This article examines the experiences of female farmers in the Australian context who neither married into nor were born into farming and how they construct…
Opening the Farm Gate to Women? The Gender Gap in U.S. Agriculture
2020
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Development Southern Africa
Anders Fremstad and Mark Paul
This article provides an empirical analysis of the gender gap for farming in the United States. Using the 2012 U.S. Census of Agriculture we show…
Relational Agriculture: Gender, Sexuality, and Sustainability in U.S. Farming
2019
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Society & Natural Resources
Isaac Sohn Leslie, Jaclyn Wypler, and Michael Mayerfeld Bell
Although 97% of U.S. farms are “family-owned,” little research examines how gender and sexual relationships – inherent in familial dynamics – influence farmers’ practices and…
Decolonising Conflicts, Security, Peace, Gender, Environment and Development in the Anthropocene
2021
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Springer
Oswald Spring, Úrsula Brauch, and Hans Günter
In this book 25 authors from the Global South (19) and the Global North (6) address conflicts, security, peace, gender, environment and development. Four parts…