Livelihoods & Economic Empowerment
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APWLD Member Zoom-in: Alma Sinumlag
Blog
The cold bites in New York. That’s what Alma Sinumlag felt when she visited the Big Apple for the first time ever in 2018. Having…
Empowering Sudan’s women and promoting peace through equitable use of natural resources
International
Many parts of Sudan’s Darfur and Kordofan regions are low-rainfall and drought-prone agro-pastoral areas. The resulting water scarcity and poor vegetation fosters low agricultural productivity…
Iraq: UN: Clearing Iraq's Mosul From Explosives to Take Decades
International
The U.N. Mine Action Service (UNMAS) estimates it could take 10 years to clear Mosul, Iraq, of landmines and decades longer to free this former…
Strengthening Women's Voices in Land Decisions: What Works?
Blog
Since the mid 2000s, sub-Saharan Africa has experienced a land rush driven by factors such as rising commercial agriculture, mineral extraction and large infrastructure projects.…
Transparency and Accountability in the Extractives Sector: A Synthesis of What Works and What Does Not
Library
While there are a number of transparency and accountability initiatives in the natural resources governance sector, evidence on the impact of these initiative remains sparse.…
The Gender Gap in Agricultural Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa: Causes, Costs, and Solutions
Briefs & Development
Across sub-Saharan Africa, the agricultural sector remains critical to local and regional economies. It is the basis for food security and an important source of…
How Violence against Women and Girls Undermines Resilience to Climate Risks in Chad
Briefs & Development
What consequences does ‘everyday violence’ have on the abilities of survivors to protect themselves from further risks? This paper seeks to establish the linkages between…
Gender Dimension of Vulnerability to Climate Change and Variability: Empirical Evidence of Smallholder Farming Households in Ghana
Briefs & Development
This paper aims to investigate farmers’ vulnerability to climate change and variability in the northern region of Ghana.
This is the first study that examined the…
From Abandonment to Autonomy: Gendered Strategies for Coping with Climate Change, Isiolo County, Kenya
Briefs & Development
Access to resources, both material and social, are central elements in responding to social and environmental transition, and adapting to change, yet the ways in…
How Does Gendered Vulnerability Shape the Adoption and Impact of Sustainable Livelihood Interventions in an Era of Global Climate Change?
Briefs & Development
Though many studies have long considered the broad social implications of climate change, researchers have only recently started to consider the gendered unevenness of the…
Gender Integration in Climate Change and Agricultural Policies: The Case of Nepal
Briefs & Development
Gender integration across national policy processes is critical to ensure effective implementation of climate change adaptation interventions in agriculture. This is especially so for countries…
Gender in Climate Change, Agriculture, and Natural Resource Policies: Insights from East Africa
Library
Gender mainstreaming was acknowledged as an indispensable strategy for achieving gender equality at the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action. Since then, governments have made substantial…
The Contribution of Women in Environmental Protection Within the Context of Local Sustainable Development
Library
Sustainable local development aims to improve economy while taking into account environmental protection. Within this context, the contribution of women to sustainable local development over…
Gender, Environment and Migration in Bangladesh
Briefs & Development
This article addresses how gender norms impact the process of migration, and what this means for the use of migration as an adaptation strategy to…
Women's Tenure Rights and Land Reform in Angola
Briefs & Development
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
Library
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
Briefs & Development
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
Briefs & Development
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
Briefs & Development
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
Briefs & Development
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
Briefs & Development
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
Briefs & Development
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
Briefs & Development
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
Library
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
Briefs & Development
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
Library
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
Briefs & Development
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
Briefs & Development
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
Briefs & Development
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
Briefs & Development
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,…