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Accelerating Adoption of Climate-Smart Agriculture: Reaching Women Farmers in Uganda with Video Extension

Nov 7, 2022 | Moses Lule

Women play a vital role in agricultural production in low-income countries, but often lack the information needed to improve their agricultural practices. A recent dissemination…

Climate Crisis and Water Stress Create a Perfect Storm for Women: We Need Radical Collaborations for Gender-Just Climate Solutions

Nov 7, 2022 | Deepa Joshi, Mairi Dupar, Ranjitha Puskur, and Alan Nicol

Addressing global stakeholders now engaged in COP27, researchers from CGIAR and the Climate and Development Knowledge Network come together to call for radical collaborations to achieve climate justice for…

Climate Change is a Gender Issue As Well as an Existential One

Nov 6, 2022 | Victoria McKenzie-Mcharg

The latest State of the Environment report was released last month and environment and water minister Tanya Plibersek said it was a “shocking document” that told “a…

Climate Change and Women: A Crisis Within a Crisis

Nov 6, 2022 | Sarthak Singhal

In addressing the urgent crisis of climate change, it is crucial to acknowledge the gender dimension of its impacts, and for that to be reflected…

Women are Leading the Restoration of the World’s Second Largest Tropical Rainforest - Here’s How

Nov 6, 2022 | Victoria Masterson

The Congo Rainforest in Africa is the second largest tropical rainforest in the world – but it could be completely gone within 80 years because…

Benefiting People and the Planet: Why We Must Prioritise Gender in Anti-Corruption and Climate Efforts

Nov 4, 2022 | Transparency Int'l

No matter what situation you find yourself in, gender* likely influences how you experience it.

The climate crisis, for example, will affect all of us in…

How Deep-Seated Sexism is Making Food Insecurity Worse in Nigeria

Nov 2, 2022 | Philip Obaji Jr.

Last year, Nigerian farmer Odam Obat lost about two thirds of her cassava crop to devastating floods at her home in the Niger Delta –…

Women Must Lead the Way Out Yemen’s Climate and Conflict Crises

Nov 1, 2022 | Jackie Abramian

When the U.S.-backed Saudi-led coalition entered Yemen in early 2015 to “restore” the government to power after the takeover by Houthi fighters in the capital…

Advancing the women, peace and security agenda in the Pacific

Oct 31, 2022 | Heather Wrathall and Melissa C. Tyler

On this day 22 years ago, the United Nations Security Council adopted resolution 1325 in recognition of the fact that women experience and are affected by conflict…

Integrating Gender into Environment Projects in Fragile and Conflict Settings

Oct 31, 2022 | Agathe Christien and Phoebe Spencer

There is growing recognition that natural resource exploitation and environmental pressures can fuel violent conflict. Compounding this threat, situations of conflict and environmental stress also…

Leaving No One Behind at COP27

Oct 31, 2022 | Jenny Grönwall, Xanani Baloyi, and Georgette Mrakadeh-Keane

As COP27 fast approaches a slew of reports highlight how much work is yet to be done to meet the goal of reducing projected warming…

Using Gender Sensitive Data to Inform Climate Security Planning

Oct 18, 2022 | Steve Recca and Maryruth B. Priebe

There is a growing consensus at the national and grassroots levels that women must be engaged as leaders and essential contributors in responding to the…

Bring Women to the Centre of Peace-building

Oct 18, 2022 | Sima Bahous

The world today is facing a horrendous range of conflicts. We are seeing military coups, seizures of land by force, and explosion of rivalries into…

The World Cannot Fix the Global Food Crisis Without Rural Women

Oct 15, 2022 | Claudia Sadoff

A shocking jump in the number of women compared to men facing food insecurity lays bare a broadening gender gap, with women now shouldering a…

Cooperation Needed to Correct Course on Gender Equality: UN Report

Oct 14, 2022 | IISD

UN Women and the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) issued a report, which presents evidence on gender equality across all 17 SDGs. Emphasizing…

Unleashing the Power of Gender-Smart Climate Investing in Developed Markets

Oct 12, 2022 | Suzanne Biegel

With little capital flowing in established economies, and increasing urgency, the time to move money in this direction is now.When many investors — especially those…

Gender Inequality and the Connection to Climate Change

Oct 12, 2022 | Nelly Gachanja

Did you know gender inequality and climate change are interconnected? Africa is more vulnerable to climate change than any other region on the planet. Coincidentally,…

CFS 50: Statement from CSIPM on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment

Oct 11, 2022 | La Via Campesina

As a diverse collective, which is made of persons from the South and from the North, we, peasant women, Indigenous women, women from war-torn countries,…

Women Are on the Front Lines of Climate Change — So Let Them Steer The Response

Oct 11, 2022 | Cara Wilson

After years of working in the finance sector on both gender and sustainable finance initiatives, I am convinced that more women at the top would…

Women and Gender in Climate Diplomacy

Oct 5, 2022 | Amy M. Jaffe and Cali Nathanson

Prominent women leaders have played a critical role in the success of global climate negotiations and have contributed to a fuller understanding of the gendered…

Gender-Informed Policies Fundamental for Climate Change Adaptation

Oct 5, 2022 | Sarah McLaughlin

Scientists from the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) are working to understand the gender gap in climate change adaptation and the causes behind this…

Climate Change is a Threat Multiplier for Women and Girls: UN expert

Oct 5, 2022 | United Nations

NEW YORK (5 October 2022) – Climate change and environmental degradation are escalating the risk and prevalence of violence against women and girls across the…

Gender Action Plan for Climate Change

Oct 2, 2022 | Hunain Mahmood

Climate Change Gender Action Plan argues for a greater role for women in the development of climate solutions.

In the wake of the recent floods, women…

Ghana: Climate Change Impact Hinges On Three Areas

Sep 30, 2022 | Benjamin Arcton-Tettey

The call to address the gender gap with regard to climate change and its impact on women, peace and security is hinged on three areas.The…

Gender Inequality, Armed Conflict and Climate Change: Why Militaries Can and Should Map Compounded Risk

Sep 29, 2022 | Jody M. Prescott, Robin Lovell, Emma Miner, Emily Smith, Cyrus Oswald, and Cameron Chambers

In areas marked by gender inequality, women and girls are particularly at risk of the compounding effects of armed conflict and climate change. Militaries should…

Fishing for Equity and Inclusion: Women’s Socioeconomic Factors in Kenyan Fisheries

Aug 29, 2022 | Margaret Gatonye

Seeing Loreta sort and dry her Omena sardines at the shores of Lake Victoria in Western Kenya, one may dismiss this small, middle-aged woman as…

Conflict, Climate Change and COVID Combine to Create a Breeding Ground for Sexual and Gender-Based Violence

Aug 26, 2022 | Helen Clark, Michelle Bachelet, and José M. Albares

Rape is being used in conflict as a deliberate military strategy, and is feared most by women and girls as soon as the shooting starts.

They…

South Sudanese Women Are Going Beyond Gender Norms to Cope With Multiple Crises

Aug 23, 2022 | Marisa O. Ensor

The links between gender, mass violence, climate change, and human mobility are complex and interrelated. In South Sudan, where four in five people endure extreme…

‘Afghan Women’ Aren’t Who You Think They Are

Aug 16, 2022 | Lima Halima Ahmad

On May 7, the Taliban issued a statement making their version of the hijab mandatory for all women of Afghanistan, even though this full-body covering, sometimes called…

We Must Recognise Women’s Work on Climate Action: Bushfire Survivor Jo Dodds

Aug 11, 2022 | Brianna Boecker

Jo Dodds watched a bushfire burn through her south coast NSW township and impact her own home on March 18, 2018. It was an event…