Gender, Natural Resources, Climate, and Peace

Gender, Natural Resources, Climate, and Peace

Issue #77 – August 21, 2025

Spotlight

This month's guest Spotlight was written by Nohelia Palou Zuniga (Researcher at Universidad Rafael Landívar) and Ignacio Madurga Lopez (Climate Security Specialist at CGIAR). 

How Grassroots Women-Led Networks are Strengthening Resilience and Reducing Climate-Conflict Risks: Experience from Latin America and the Caribbean

August 21, 2025 | Nohelia Palou Zúniga and Ignacio Madurga-Lopez

Across Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), women are uniquely positioned to address the dual crises of climate change and conflict.

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Announcements

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Fourth International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding (DEADLINE: October 6, 2025)

August 19, 2025

The Environmental Peacebuilding Association® (EnPAx®) and the University of Ottawa are pleased to announce the call for abstracts for the Fourth International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding.

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Events

Cyprus Women Environmental Peacemakers

September 22, 2025

WIFT CY Women in Film and Television Cyprus

It is our great honor to invite you to participate in a powerful new initiative taking place this September in Cyprus: the Cyprus Women Environmental Peacemakers (CWEP) project.

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Integrating Gender Perspectives - 2026 EnPAx Conference (A Path to Ottawa Event)

September 4, 2025

EnPAx Gender Interest Group

Virtual

Join us virtually September 4, 2025 @ 11 am EDT for an exciting collaborative session where the EnPAx Gender Interest group will lead a discussion on how to meaningfully integrate gender perspectives throughout…

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Advocate for Gender and Environmental Peacebuilding at These Events in 2025!

March 15, 2025 - 2025-12-31

Environmental Peacebuilding Association

Check out these exciting 2025 events in our infographic!

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Library

Sudan: Women, Food Insecurity, and Famine Risk in Sudan, Gender Snapshot

July 21, 2025 | 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 Consolidated Food Security and Vulnerability Assessment1.

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Integrating Gender Perspectives into Environmental Sustainability: Ecological Security and Post-Conflict Impacts in the Middle East

July 1, 2025 | Sania Haroon, Samrana Afzal, and Hina Butt

Understanding the pressing need to incorporate gender views into environmental sustainability initiatives in Middle Eastern conflict-affected areas with a special focus on Iraq, Syria, and Yemen is crucial.

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More Than Connecting the Gender Dots: Exploring a Deep Relations Approach in Environmental Peacebuilding

March 17, 2025 | Heidi Hudson

This article proposes a paradigm shift in environmental peacebuilding beyond the peaceful distribution of resources, cooperative approaches and integrative frameworks and offers a feminist-relational approach that puts relations between men and women, communities…

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Gender-Based Violence as a Barrier to Women Rights towards Socio-environmental Sustainability

November 30, 2024 | 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 armed conflict and migration.

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Perils of Peacebuilding: Gender-Blindness, Climate Change and Ceasefire Capitalism in Colombia and Myanmar (chapter in "Feminist Conversations on Peace")

July 26, 2022 | Henri Myrttinen and Diana López Castañeda

Peacebuilding requires a complex set of operations and transformations that address root causes of conflict, repairs victims and creates trust – all of which are highly gendered, often tied to territory and increasingly…

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Jobs

Somalia: Displacement and Economic Advisor (National Position)

August 15, 2025 | CARE USA

CARE works around the globe to save lives, defeat poverty and achieve social justice.

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Somalia: Climate Resilience Advisor (National Position)

August 15, 2025 | CARE USA

CARE works around the globe to save lives, defeat poverty and achieve social justice.

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Mali: Grant and Project Manager (Shea and Renewable Energy)/ Chef·fe de projet (Karité & Énergies Renouvelables)

August 13, 2025 | ActionAid

ActionAid est une fédération internationale œuvrant pour un monde juste, équitable et durable, libéré de la pauvreté et de l’oppression.

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Yemen: Research Analyst, Environment and Gender (Service Provider)

August 13, 2025 | European Institute of Peace

Based in Brussels and active in over a dozen countries, the European Institute of Peace (www. eip.

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International

Liberia: House Speaker Koon Pledges Action on Rural Women’s Land Rights

August 11, 2025 | Francis G. Boayue

MONROVIA – House Speaker Richard Nagbe Koon has vowed to champion legislative reforms aimed at empowering rural women and strengthening land rights across Liberia.

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Tanzania: Protecting Women’s Land Tenure Rights Begins with Women

August 8, 2025 | Deodatus Mfugale

At the age of 70 years, Rehema Mfaume has to face economic and social hardships after her land was taken away by her late husband’s relatives.

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Pakistan: Pakistani Musicians Use Folk Songs and Rap to Raise Climate Change Awareness

August 6, 2025 | Riazat Butt

UMERKOT, Pakistan (AP) — Villagers hush when Pakistani folk musician Sham Bhai starts singing about climate change, her clear voice rising above the simple squat dwellings.

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Dominican Republic: Making Space for Women in Mangrove Conservation

July 26, 2025 | Sumina Subba

Mangroves are the green shields of our ecosystem. In recent times, these green lines of defense are disappearing and with them, the protection they offer to coastlines, communities, and climate.

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Colombia: Empowering Women and Protecting the Planet: Resilient Coffee Production in La Celia, Colombia

July 21, 2025

Sainsbury’s and Finlays have partnered to launch a dedicated roast & ground product sourced directly from the lush, rolling hills of La Celia – a small town nestled in Colombia’s coffee heartland.

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China: Gender and Social Inclusion Matter for Agrobiodiversity

July 17, 2025 | Marlène Elias and Amelia Arreguín Prado

When people think about agrobiodiversity, they often imagine seed banks, crop trials, or ecosystem services.

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Blogs

From Struggle to Strength: A Young Farmer’s Journey Toward Sustainable Prosperity

August 4, 2025 | Desalegne Tadesse

At just 25 years of age, Tigist Adamo’s experience epitomized the daily realities of countless smallholder farmers in South Ethiopia.

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Compiled by Maria Camilla CadonicciKathleen McLean, Emma Cowan, Natalia Jimenez, and Maryruth Belsey Priebe

Edited by Madeleine Loll

Coordinated by Mara Pusic 

Designed by Graham Campbell

Managed and Published by Silja Halle and Carl Bruch

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