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Women's Tenure Rights and Land Reform in Angola
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Current Angolan municipalisation reforms present a unique opportunity to affect local practice on how community and individual land-holder tenure is administered and to protect women's…
Gender Just Climate Solutions: Examples of Best Practice
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The Women and Gender Constituency, along with other women, gender, and human rights advocates, has been actively pushing world leaders to ensure just and equitable…
Farmers’ Perception of Climate Change and Livelihood Vulnerability in Rainfed Regions of India: A Gender-environment Perspective
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This study has attempted to investigate the nature and magnitude of livelihood vulnerability in the Bundelkhand region, India. A multistage sampling technique has been used…
Reparing Fractured Landscapes: Challenges and Opportunities for Resolving Disputes over Land, Housing, Water and Other Natural Resources in Yemen
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Challenges and opportunities for resolving disputes over land, housing, water and other natural resources in Yemen.April 2019 | Unresolved disputes over housing, land, and natural…
Gender-Transformative Climate Change Adaptation: Advancing Social Equity
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Power and gender inequalities can constrain and undermine climate change adaptation. Those who are vulnerable and marginalized, with limited access to resources and assets, are…
Gender, Resource Management, and Social Unrest: An Ethnographic Case Study
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This paper aims at locating the relationship between gender and resource management, especially the indigenous knowledge system of women for natural resource management of the…
Weathering the Storm or Storming the Norms? Moving Gender Equality Forward in Climate-resilient Agriculture
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Much is known about the effects of climate change on women, and most research on the topic focuses on women’s greater vulnerability as a result of…
Land Tenure as a Cause of Tensions and Driver of Conflict among Mining Communities in Karamoja, Uganda
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This paper offers insight on the missed narrative of land and resource conflict beneath the reality of gemstones and ores in the inchoate industry of…
Twin Peaks: The Seasonality of Acute Malnutrition, Conflict and Environmental Factors in Chad, South Sudan and the Sudan
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This is the first in a series of three briefing papers that form part of the Mind the gap – Bridging the research, practice and…
Perceptions of Gender Dynamics in Small‐Scale Fisheries and Conservation Areas in the Pursat Province of Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia
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The Tonle Sap Lake of Cambodia is one of the most productive ecosystems in the world, supporting millions of small‐scale fisher livelihoods. Women's contributions in…
Gender Dimensions of Climate Change Adaptation Practices:The Experiences of Smallholder Crop Farmers in the Transition Zone of Ghana
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This paper discusses the gender dimensions of climate change adaptation strategies among small holder crop farmers in the transition zone of Ghana. A total of…
Governance, Gender and the Appropriation of Natural Resources: A Case Study of ‘Left-Behind’ Women’s Collective Action in China
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China’s rapid urbanization has created large scale of population migration, resulting in many villages being dominated by “left-behind” women, and weak governance of those collectively…
A Constructive Leadership Approach of Poor Tribal Women, Towards Equitable and Gender just Relations around Common Land
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This paper highlights struggle of poor tribal women towards protection and conservation of village common lands i.e. forestland, village pastures and reservoirs. These studies capture…
Improving the Socioeconomic Status of Rural Women Associated with Agricultural Land Acquisition: A Case Study in Huong Thuy Town, Thua Thien Hue Province, Vietnam
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Since the 2000s, agricultural land acquisition (ALA) for urbanization and industrialization has been quickly implemented in Vietnam, which has led to a huge socioeconomic transformation…
The Lives of Women in a Land Reclamation Project: Gender, Class, Culture and Place in Egyptian Land and Water Management
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This article links feminist political ecology with the academic debate about commoning by focusing on the gendered distribution of common pool resources, in particular land…
Role of Women in Environment Conservation
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Growing population and technological advancement are continuously putting a strain on the environment and on country’s natural resources. Over-exploitation of the country’s resources like land,…
Gender Inequality and Adaptive Capacity: The Role of Social Capital on the Impacts of Climate Change in Vietnam
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Climate change has exacerbated gender inequality, and women are a vulnerable group. Previous research attributed this to physical gender differences, gender differences in ownership and…
Gender Perspective on Water Use and Management in the Context of Climate Change: A Case Study of Melamchi Watershed Area, Nepal
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Increasing trend of the burden of household water management is exemplified by recent literature as the effect of climate change on women. The current study…
Climate Change Impacts on Gender Relations in Bangladesh: Socio-Environmental Struggle of the Shora Forest Community in the Sundarbans Mangrove Forest
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This book explores gendered perceptions of the Sundarbans Forest in Bangladesh, and the extent to which these perceptions are affected by extreme weather events (specifically,…
Gender-Based Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Strategies Among Smallholder Farmers in Northern Ghana: What Lessons for Nationally-appropriate Mitigation Actions Exist? (Chapter in "Climate Change and Sub-Saharan Africa")
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If the Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO's) evidence that women produce over 70% of sub-Saharan Africa's food is true, then targeting women during agriculture-related research,…
Empowering Women Means Taking a Stand for Environmental Rights
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The Samburu, a pastoralist indigenous tribe from the vast semi-arid and arid rangelands of Northern Kenya, face many of the same challenges as other indigenous…
Shoring Up Stability: Addressing Climate and Fragility Risks in the Lake Chad Region
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The people of Lake Chad are caught in a conflict trap. Violent conflict between state security forces and armed opposition groups, poor governance, endemic corruption,…
Advancing Gender in The Environment: Gender in Fisheries—A Sea of Opportunities
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Sustainable fisheries are vital for achieving food security, alleviating poverty, and increasing economic growth around the world. In coastal countries, seafood accounts for up to…
Inégalités de Genre et Insécurité Alimentaire: Dix Ans après La Crise des Pris des Denrées Alimentaires, Pourquoi Les Agricultrices Souffrent-Elles Encore de la Faim?
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La crise des prix des denrées alimentaires de 2007-2008 et une deuxième flambée des prix en 2010-2011 ont eu des effets dévastateurs sur les populations…
Gender Inequalities and Food Security: Ten Years after the Food Price Crisis, Why Are Women Farmers Still Food-Insecure?
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The food price crisis of 2007–08 had devastating impacts for the world’s poorest people, especially for smallholder farmers and in particular for women, who face…
Mineria, Participacion y Voz de la Mujer: Caso de Estudio de Colombia
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Las mujeres a menudo se ven afectadas negativamente por la minería y sufren por problemas que surgen dentro de sus familias y sus comunidades relacionados…
Mining, Women's Participation and Voice: Case Studies from Colombia
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Women are often adversely impacted by mining, with problems arising within families and communities related to the lack of women’s decision-making and influence on the…
Assessing the Impact of Due Diligence Programs in Eastern DRC: A Baseline Study
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Between the year 2016 and 2018, the authors visited a total of 623 mine sites that employed an estimated 115,500 artisanal miners. Half of these…
Discursive Translations of Gender Mainstreaming Norms: The Case of Agricultural and Climate Change Policies in Uganda
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While the international norm on gender mainstreaming, UN-backed since 1995, has been widely adopted in national policies, gender inequalities are rarely systematically addressed on the…
Women, Water and ‘Wicked Problems’: Community Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Change in Northern Pakkoku, Myanmar
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In a very poor, very dry area of NW Myanmar, Northern Pakkoku exhibits numerous ‘wicked problems’—the interplay between lack of water, too much water when…