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India: ‘It Isn’t Just Men Who Drive Tractors’: Women Help Lead India’s Historic Farm Protests
International
MUMBAI, India — Sunita Malik sat in the driver’s seat of her tractor, parked behind a police barricade at the edge of India’s capital. She and her…
DRC: Why Rangers in the Congo’s Virunga National Park Are under Attack
International
Armed men have killed at least six rangers and wounded several others in an ambush in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) Virunga national park.…
Nigeria: Nigeria Cattle Crisis: How Drought and Urbanisation Led to Deadly Land Grabs
International
For many years the clashes between farmers and cattle herders were problematic, but the two groups usually managed to reach a mutual accommodation. But in…
Toward a Feminist Agroecology
Briefs & Development
In this paper, we review HLPE’s 13 defining principles of agroecology through a feminist lens to demonstrate the ways in which human dimensions and power…
Taking Food Out the Private Sphere? Addressing Gender Relations in Urban Food Policy
Briefs & Development
Urban food policies are increasingly considered central instruments for the promotion of food systems sustainability. As for their social sustainability, justice and equity are expected…
Public Policies for Agricultural Diversification: Implications for Gender Equity
Briefs & Development
Gender equity is recognized as central to sustainable development, but women still face significant constraints in accessing and controlling productive resources important for agricultural livelihoods.…
Disasters, Gender and HIV Infection: The Impact of the 2010 Haiti Earthquake
Briefs & Development
Although disasters threaten all people who experience them, they do not affect all members of society in the same way. Its effects are not solely…
Gender and Natural Resource Extraction in Latin America: Feminist Engagements with Geopolitical Positionality
Briefs & Development
This article resituates the debate on approaches to gender in contexts of natural resource extraction in Latin America and, subsequently, outlines an intersectional, feminist proposal…
Feminist Resistance Building in the Brazilian Agroecology Movement: A Gender Decoloniality Study
Briefs & Development
The agroecology movement in Brazil has politically mobilized the importance of feminism in its slogan. Considering that domination over women persists in the postcolonial context…
Is Push-Pull Climate- and Gender-Smart for Ethiopia?
Briefs & Development
Across sub-Saharan Africa, climate change is exacerbating pest problems for smallholder farmers. Push-pull technology (PPT) is an agronomic package designed to reduce the effects of Striga and…
Beyond Ownership: Women's and Men's Land Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa
Briefs & Development
Advancing women’s land rights is a priority for the international development agenda. Little consensus exists, however, on which rights should be monitored and reported, especially…
Open-Pit Peace: The Power of Extractive Industries in Post-Conflict Transitions
Briefs & Development
Three years after the peace accord signed by the Colombian government and the country’s largest guerrilla group, the guerrillas announced a return to arms. The…
Disrupted Gender Roles in Australian Agriculture: First Generation Female Farmers’ Construction of Farming Identity
Briefs & Development
This article examines the experiences of female farmers in the Australian context who neither married into nor were born into farming and how they construct…
Decolonising Conflicts, Security, Peace, Gender, Environment and Development in the Anthropocene
Briefs & Development
In this book 25 authors from the Global South (19) and the Global North (6) address conflicts, security, peace, gender, environment and development. Four parts…
Reducing Gender Inequalities Through Land Titling? The Case of Gozamin Woreda
Library
Globally, land has significant socio-economic value since it is a major source of livelihood (Andrews, 2018, Po and Hickey, 2018). In many developing countries like Ethiopia,…
Gender and the Environment: Building Evidence and Policies to Achieve the SDGs
Library
Gender equality and environmental goals are mutually reinforcing, with slow progress on environmental actions affecting the achievement of gender equality, and vice versa. Progress towards…
Women, Land and Justice in Tanzania
Library
On the fertile lower slopes of Tanzania's second highest mountain, bounded by narrow mud pathways and bougainvillea hedgerows, there is a shamba. Over the years, banana trees,…
Seasonal Participation in Maize Markets in Zambia: Do Agricultural Input Subsidies and Gender Matter?
Library
This paper uses data from 1128 households drawn from 35 districts, three agroecological zones and five provinces in Zambia to explore the influence of gender…
What Does Gender Yield Gap Tell Us about Smallholder Farming in Developing Countries?
Library
This study examines the extent of the productivity gap between male and female bean producers, its discriminatory nature and implications for the policymakers in agriculture…
Women Environmental Human Rights Defenders: Facing Gender-Based Violence in Defense of Land, Natural Resources and Human Rights
Briefs & Development
Natural resources and ecosystem services directly support millions of people’s livelihoods, providing food and water, being part of cultural and communal identities and supporting rights…
The Mediation Effect of Rural Women Empowerment Between Social Factors and Environment Conservation (Combination of Empowerment and Ecofeminist Theories)
Library
Women in developing countries are a key element of development, especially in terms of environmental conservation. Environmental issues have deep social concepts and are changing…
Improving Governance of Tenure in Policy and Practice: The Case of Myanmar
Briefs & Development
With increasing pressures on scarce land and natural resources, responsible governance of tenure to protect rights and right holders of these resources becomes pivotal. Especially…
Liberia: Liberia Set to Create Another National Park as Stakeholders Initiate Gazettement Process of Krahn-Bassa Proposed Protected Area
International
The Government of Liberia, through the Forestry Development Authority (FDA) and its partners, conducted a one-day National Multi-stakeholder Information-Sharing meeting bordering on the gazettement of…
Kenya: In Kenya’s Changing Climate, Women are Claiming Land Rights to Feed their Families
International
14 years ago, Alice Lasoi’s marriage ended after eight years. With four children in tow and seven months pregnant, she returned to her father’s home, Namelok…
Nepal: Nepali Women Doubly Burdened by Climate Change
International
Agriculture expert Yamuna Ghale was on a research visit to Dolakha district when she heard the women livestock farmers complain that their goats had weak…
Brazil: Women Are Still Not Heard in the Climate Policy Conversation
International
Climate change effects don’t have the same impact on everyone: Vulnerable groups always have it worse. This discrepancy is apparent even when these groups are…
More Women in Boardrooms Mean Better Climate Change Policy, Study Says
International
Companies with greater gender diversity in their boardrooms show better performance on developing policies and methods to address climate change risks, according to BloombergNEF.
Myanmar: Amid Tensions in Myanmar, an Indigenous Park of Peace Is Born
International
The Salween Peace Park is being lauded as a model for conservation that draws less on Western science and more on ethnic cultural traditions of…
Liberia: 30 GoL Employees Train on Gender Sensitive, Land, Concession Reporting
International
Over 30 employees from three autonomous agencies of Government have acquired an intensive three-days training in gender-sensitive, land and concession reporting organized by UN Women…
Climate Change: Looking at Security through the Climate Lens
International
As global warming gains ground, the security implications of the climate threat can no longer be ignored. But as the Covid-19 pandemic enters its tenth…