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Afghanistan: Female Entrepreneurs Enter the Seed Market in Rural Afghanistan
International
The lack of availability of quality seeds remains a constraint in Afghanistan, hampering agricultural productivity. Against this background, ICARDA recently reintroduced the concept of village-based…
Climate Change: Integrating Gender in the Mitigation of Climate Change
International
The Focal Point of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change for Liberia at the EPA says the issue of climate change continues to…
Meet the Women Protecting Vanuatu's Resources for Future Generations
News
Located in the South Pacific, the small, low-lying islands of Vanuatu are home to immense cultural and ecological diversity. However, these beautiful islands and the…
Afghanistan: How Afghanistan's Urban Gardens Are Changing Women's Lives
International
It may look like they're just planting and weeding, but for the women tending the public gardens of Jalalabad, the tasks represent far more: the…
Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone in Fourth Bid to Launch Oil Sector with Licensing Round
International
Seeking to capitalise on higher oil prices, Sierra Leone has extended the deadline of a fourth oil licensing round for five deep water offshore blocks…
Land Rights: Liberia Is at a Crucial Moment in Its History
Blog
A historic election gives President George Weah the momentum and mandate to enact a robust agenda, and Mr. Weah has rightly identified secure land rights…
Common Pool: Equitable Water Governance Brings Prosperity to Sabkhali
Blog
The Sundarbans, a vast forest in the coastal region of the Bay of Bengal, are considered one of the natural wonders of the world. Lying…
Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction: Women and Climate Change Adaptation
Blog
According to a 2015 Georgetown University report on women and climate change, “the impacts of climate change – droughts, floods, extreme weather, increased incidence of…
Q&A: Getting Women's Land Rights Recognized
Blog
Philippine Sutz describes work under way to help secure land rights for women in Senegal and Tanzania, and explains how accessing land gives them greater…
Rep. Lee Introduces Women and Climate Change Act of 2018
Blog
On February 5, 2018, Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) introduced the Women and Climate Change Act of 2018 (H.R.4932) to “address the disparate impact of climate…
Connecting the Dots: Natural Resources, Women, and Peace
Blog
In the recent peace process with the FARC in Colombia, however, women made up one third of participants, and the resulting peace agreement stands as a model…
Liberia: Weah Warned Against Cruel Land Reform
International
Enacting the Land Rights Bill, which has been severely altered against the interest of poor forest dwellers would no doubt undermine Liberia’s peace, security, economic…
No Guns, No Drugs, No Atrocities, No Rape, No Murder. Just Bananas…
International
Don José Manuel Suarez has seen some things. Father of seven and grandfather of 15, his 80 years have been spent farming a patch of…
Liberia: Liberia Looks to Women for Equal Distribution of Forest Resources
International
An eight-bedroom guesthouse, a five-classroom school and a palaver hut are major achievements of a community forest development committee (CFDC) of a community affected by…
Nile Basin: How Big Land Deals Add Stress to the River Nile
International
One of the major scenes of a potential water crisis and conflict is the Nile, the longest in the world. It flows 11 countries -…
Cambio Climático y Conflictividad Socioambiental en América Latina y el Caribe (Climate Change and Socio-environmental Conflict in Latin America and the Caribbean)
Briefs & Development
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…
Women, Peace Negotiations, and Peace Agreements: Opportunities and Challenges (Chapter in "The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Conflict")
Library
Peace agreements, seeking to end conflict and establish a road map for the future, have significant effects on women’s lives, yet historically women have been…
Pathways to Achieving Food Security, Sustainable Peace and Gender Equality: Evidence from Three FAO Interventions
Briefs & Development
There is increasing recognition that livelihood security, sustainable peace, conflict prevention and gender equality are complementary goals requiring integrated policy approaches, yet there is limited…
Assessment of Dispute Resolution Structures and HLP Issues in Borno and Adamawa States, North-East Nigeria
Briefs & Development
The armed conflict in the Lake Chad region has caused mass displacement in north-east Nigeria, forcing people to flee the violence and abandon their homes.The…
How Do Post-Conflict Environmental Initiatives Affect Women's Empowerment within Natural Resource Management in the Short Term?
Briefs & Development
This thesis aims to explain how post-conflict environmental initiatives affect women’s empowerment within natural resource management in the short term. It argues that the lack…
Gender and Water in a Changing Climate: Challenges and Opportunities
Briefs & Development
Climate change is exacerbating existing water insecurity globally, with significant gender consequences. Changes in water availability, access, scarcity and security play critical roles in shaping…
Taking Gender Seriously in Climate Change Adaptation and Sustainability Science Research: Views from Feminist Debates and Sub-Saharan Small-scale Agriculture
Briefs & Development
People, places, and production contributing the least to climate change will suffer the most. This calls for adaptation as a key climate change response. But…
Plan de Accion Genero y Cambio Climatico de Republica Dominicana (PAGCC-RD)
Briefs & Development
El Plan de Acción de Género y Cambio Climático para República Dominicana (PAGCC-RD) es el resultado de un proceso de coordinación nacional que tuvo lugar…
Women as Change-makers in the Governance of Shared Waters
Briefs & Development
Issues of women’s participation and gender equality in the governance of shared waters have received insufficient attention to date in both the research and practice…
Gender-Environment-Peace: Exploring the Links through Problem-Posing (Chapter in "Gender, Sexuality and Peace Education: Issues and Perspectives in Higher Education")
Briefs & Development
Peace studies as a field increasingly recognizes both gender and ecology as cross-cutting factors for theory and practice. so far, however, introductory texts have not…
War, Women, and Power: From Violence to Mobilization in Rwanda and Bosnia-Herzegovina
Library
Rwanda and Bosnia both experienced mass violence in the early 1990s. Less than ten years later, Rwandans surprisingly elected the world's highest level of women…
Guidance to Advance Gender Equality in GEF Projects and Programs
Briefs & Development
GEF Council approved a new GEF Policy on Gender Equality (GEF, 2017c) in November 2017. The Policy marks GEF’s increased ambition to ensure gender equality…
Overcoming Inequalities among and within Countries, Including Gender Inequality, to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals - Reaching the Poorest and Most Vulnerable Populations First
Briefs & Development
This background paper will serve to inform the afternoon session on the above-mentioned topic at the Joint Meeting of the Executive Boards of UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS, UNICEF,…
Turning Promises Into Action: Gender Equality in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Briefs & Development
“Turning promises into action: Gender equality in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, UN Women’s new flagship report, provides a comprehensive and authoritative assessment of…
Aid to Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment
Briefs & Development
Achieving strong gender equality outcomes requires adequate, sustained financing in support of gender equality and women’s empowerment. In the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, stakeholders…