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Conflicts over Water and Energy Resources in Central Asia and Their Impact on Women's Rights

2024 | International University of Kyrgyzstan
Gulima A. Seitalieva

Central Asia has sufficient water and energy resources. Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan have large reserves of fresh water. Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan have oil and gas.…


Women and Indigenous Resource Conflict Resolution Options in Uganda’s Oil Region: A Case of Barazas

2024 | Mobility, Identity, and Conflict Resolution in Africa
Deborah Birungi, Nicholas Tunanukye, and John Mushomi Atwebembeire

Resource ownership has been associated with power, which has been greatly influenced by patriarchy. The role of women in organising, planning, allocating, and controlling the…


Transforming Water Security through Women's Leadership

2024 | FP Analytics

Today, more than two billion people experience water scarcity in some form. Without intervention, that figure could increase to 3.2 billion people within two decades.…


Empowering Women, Peace and Security in the Coral Triangle: Bridging Civil-Military and State Boundaries to Tackle Maritime Environmental Crimes

2024 | Pacific Forum
Lily Schlieman, Maryruth Belsey Priebe, Charity Borg, Anny Barlow, and Tevvi Bullock

The Coral Triangle, spanning Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Solomon Islands, and Timor-Leste, is renowned for its unparalleled marine biodiversity. The region is…


Empowering Women, Peace and Security in the Coral Triangle: Bridging Civil-Military and State Boundaries to Tackle Maritime Environmental Crimes

2024 | Pacific Forum International
Lily Schlieman, Maryruth Belsey Priebe, Charity Borg, Anny Barlow, and Tevvi Bullock

The Coral Triangle is renowned for its unparalleled marine biodiversity and provides food security to over 130 million people living in and around the region.…


Cambio Climático y Conflictividad Socioambiental en América Latina y el Caribe (Climate Change and Socio-environmental Conflict in Latin America and the Caribbean)

2018 | América Latina Hoy
Alfredo Stein Heinemann

This article contributes to the conceptual and policy debates on the relationship between climate change, security and conflict in Latin America and the Caribbean, a…


The Climate-Conflict-Urban Migration Nexus: Honduras, Jordan, and Pakistan

2023 | US Institute of Peace
Gabriela Nagle Aleverio, Jeannie Sowers, and Erika Weinthal

In Honduras, chronic droughts and severe natural disasters, including hurricanes and landslides, increasingly drive rural migrants to cities, where chronic gang violence and a lack of…


Active Forest Ownership – Perception of Finnish Women Forest Owners

2024 | Forest Policy and Economics
Juulia Kuhlman, Katri Hamunen, and Annukka Vainio

Women forest owners understanding of “active forest ownership” was studied for the first time in Finland.


Gender-Differentiated Roles and Perceptions on Climate Variability Among Pastoralist and Agro-Pastoralist Communities in Marsabit, Kenya

2024 | Nomadic Peoples
Armara Galwab, Oscar K. Koech, Oliver Vivian Wasonga, and Geoffrey Kironchi

Climate variability and its impacts affect different members of gender groups in households and society differently. Within the pastoral community, women are more vulnerable, being…


Social Empowerment and Its Effect on Poverty Alleviation for Sustainable Development among Women Entrepreneurs in the Nigerian Agricultural Sector

2024 | Sustainability
Mercy Ejovwokeoghene Ogbari, Flourish Folorunso, Busola Simon-Ilogho, Olufunke Adebayo, Kofoworola Olanrewaju, Joy Efegbudu, and Michael Omoregbe

Despite the fact that the issue of female poverty is widespread, continuous attempts are made to combat it and advance women’s empowerment. To achieve the…


Rural Out-Migration and Water Governance: Gender and Social Relations Mediate and Sustain Irrigation Systems in Nepal

2024 | World Development
Stephanie Leder, Rachana Upadhyaya, Kees van der Geest, Yuvika Adhikari, and Matthias Büttner

Rural out-migration is changing agrarian political economies and natural resource governance worldwide, and gender and social relations play an important mediating role. The aim of…


Addressing Gender Inequalities and Strengthening Women's Agency to Create More Climate-Resilient and Sustainable Food Systems

2024 | Global Food Security
Elizabeth Bryan, Muzna Alvi, Sophia Huyer, and Claudia Ringler

Climate change affects every aspect of the food system, including all nodes along agri-food value chains from production to consumption, the food environments in which…


Gendered Violence Martying Filipina Environmental Defenders

2023 | Extractive Industries and Society
Dalena Tran

This article contributes to discussions of extractive violence by exploring how gender influences violent circumstances under which women were assassinated during environmental conflicts. Partnership with…


Women Leaders in Environmental Management

2024 | Opportunities and Challenges for Women Leaders in Environmental Management
Sreevas T.V.T.K. and Prasad Vasantrao Kulkarni

This book chapter explores the significant role of women leaders in environmental management and their impact on sustainable development. Historically, women have been underrepresented in…


From Grazing Units to Milking Units: The Gendered Nature of Intra-Household Livestock Management and Food Security for Pastoralists in Kenya

2024 | World Development
Kayla Yurco

The milking unit (MU) is a key methodological and conceptual tool to illuminate the gendered nature of pastoralist resource access and food security.


Women's Perspectives on Addressing the Decline of Shea Trees in Northern Ghana

2024 | GeoJournal
Cornelius K. A. Pienaah, Bipasha Baruah, and Isaac Luginaah

The Shea tree holds significance in the socio-ecological landscape of northern Ghana. With the escalating impacts of climate change, the diminishing presence of Shea trees…


Can Water, Energy, and Food Policies in Support of Solar Irrigation Enable Gender Transformative Changes? Evidence from Policy Analysis in Bangladesh and Nepal

2024 | Sustainable Food Systems
Manohara Khadka, Labisha Uprety, Gitta Shrestha, Shristi Shakya, Archisman Mitra, and Aditi Mukherji

Solar irrigation pumps (SIPs) are emerging as a popular technology to address water, energy, and climate change challenges in South Asia while enhancing livelihoods and…


Gender, Rainfall Endowment, and Farmers’ Heterogeneity in Wheat Trait Preferences in Ethiopia

2024 | Food Policy
Hom N. Gartaula, Gebrelibanos Gebremariam, and Moti Jaleta

Wheat is a vital cereal crop for smallholders in Ethiopia. Despite over fifty years of research on wheat varietal development, consideration of gendered trait preferences in developing…


Gender and Livelihood Assets: Assessing Climate Change Resilience in Phalombe District – Malawi

2024 | Environmental and Sustainability Indicators
Frank B. Musa, Mangani C. Katundu, Laura A. Lewis, and Allister Munthali

Social assets are key to resilience for both types of households.


Impact of Environmental Crime on Indigenous Women: Evidence from Ecuador, Mexico, Cameroon and Indonesia

2023 | Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime
Faith Ngum and Radha Barooah

Organized crime is driving environmental degradation and biodiversity loss in forest eco- systems around the world. The impact of environmental degradation on indigenous forest-dependent communities…


Community Voices on Climate, Peace and Security: Kenya

2023 | CGIAR
Leonardo Medina, Vanessa Souza de Matos, Alex Lekaram, Caroli Giulia, Anna Belli, Oliver Unverdorben, Nyang'ori Ohenjo, Benson Kenduiywo, Theresa Liebig, Grazia Pacillo, Peter Laderach, John Hellin, Stefen Sieber, and Michelle Bonatti

This study conducted a participatory appraisal of climate vulnerabilities and conflict risks three communities across Kenya: 1) members of the Yiaku Indigenous Peoples in the…


Geontopower as a Feminist Analytic: an Interdisciplinary Triangulation of Women, Water and Feminist Politics in India

2024 | Feminist Theory
Pamela Carralero

In this article, I theorise the presence of a contemporary Indian and feminist subaltern consciousness that counters infrastructural striations of female subjecthood. Subaltern Studies scholar…


Farmers’ Perception of Climate Change and Gender Sensitive Perspective for Optimised Irrigation in a Compound Surface-Ground Water System

2024 | Journal of Water and Land Development
Meseret Dawit, Megersa Olumana Dinka, and Afera Halefom

Water is becoming a scarce resource due to the immense intensification of agricultural activity, climate change, and demographic pressure. Hence, information on water use/management and…


Gender Impact Assessment of Land Acquisition Compensation for Sustainable Environmental Management of Wuxikou Hydropower Projects

2024 | Journal of Geochemical Exploration
Yang Shen, Lei Gan, and Shaojun Chen

Reservoir compensation and resettlement are the two important keys for enforced migration for water conservancy projects. For reservoir migrants in China, the most severe loss…


Food Sovereignty for Health, Agriculture, Nutrition, and Gender Equity: Radical Implications for Haiti

2023 | Development Policy Review
Marylynn Steckley, Joshua Steckley, Walner Osna, Magalie Civil, and Steve Sider

Governments usually see food security in terms of the availability of and access to sufficient, nutritious, and culturally appropriate food. Food justice scholars, however, see…


Gender, Agriculture Policies, and Climate-Smart Agriculture in India

2023 | Agricultural Systems
Prapti Barooah, Muzna Alvi, Claudia Ringler, and Vishal Pathak

Women farmers have limited land ownership, access to credit, access to information and formal extension, and time, constraining adoption of climate smart practices.


Gender and Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene: Three Opportunities to Build From Recent Reporting on Global Progress, 2000–2022

2023 | PLoS Med
Juliet Willetts, Jess MacArthur, and Naomi Carrard

Climate migration is an emerging policymaking area not yet regulated by European Law. 


Gender Exclusion in Indonesia’s Community-Based Forest Management Extension Program

2023 | Gender, Technology and Development
Yayuk Yuliati, Edi Dwi Cahyono, Rizky Maulana, and Arissaryadin

This study investigates the gender dimensions of Indonesia’s Community-based Forest Management (CBFM) extension program. It employs a mixed-method approach to examine women’s participation and benefits,…


Women Farmers Leading and Co-Learning in an Agroecology Movement at the Intersections of Gender and Climate

2023 | Empowering Women for Gender Equity
Ludwig Chanyau and Eureta Rosenberg

This study, carried out in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, was particularly interested in women farmers’ access to social learning spaces for expanding…


Hydro-Heritage for Healing? Examining the Gendered Experience of Water in Post-Conflict Swat, Pakistan

2023 | Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space
Daanish Mustafa, Muhammad Salman Khan, Helmut De Nardi, James Caron, Arab Naz, Mohsin Ullah, and Aneela Gul

Water has been formulated as a resource or a hazard within water resources geography. The authors propose that reframing of water as hydro-heritage opens up…