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Sustainable Agriculture in Africa: Empowering Women

Event
We are pleased to invite you for our third webinar in the Sustainable Agriculture in Africa series titled: “Empowering Women” on June 8th at 12:00pm (EST).

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Sudan: $23.6 Million to Preserve Biodiversity and Ecotourism in Three Parks

International
The Global Environment Facility (GEF), the United Nations (UN), and the Sudanese government are mobilising $23.6 million for the preservation of biodiversity in Dinder National…


Liberia: Awareness Campaign on Dissemination of Information on Land Rights Acts Begins across Liberia

International
A nationwide awareness campaign on the dissemination of information on the Land Rights Act (LRA) and the Liberia Land Authority Act (LLAA) has begun across…


Minerals Council Appoints First Woman President in 131 Years

International
Nolitha Fakude has been appointed as president of the Minerals Council South Africa. This is the first time in the 131 year history of the organisation…


Chile: Chile Indigenous: Time to Make Our Voices Heard

International
Replacing it had been one of the demands made in nationwide protests which swept through the country in 2019. This weekend, Chileans are being asked to…


Kenya: Women and Youth Are Leading Kenya’s Coral Reef Revival

International
Five years ago, 20-year-old Said Abdallah was struggling with alcohol and drug addiction while living on Wasini Island, located in the Indian Ocean, 3 kilometres…


Land, Ladies, and the Law: A Case Study on Women’s Land Rights and Welfare

Event
This seminar will discuss women’s de jure and de facto land rights and its implications for household welfare in nineteenth-century Bangkok. Women constituted a significant…


Indonesia: Feature-Eco-friendly Eid - the Indonesian Women on a Mission to Plant Trees

International
On a grass verge by a road dissecting miles of rice fields in Central Java province, a group of volunteers with ‘Aisyiyah, Indonesia’s oldest Islamic…


Myanmar: Gender-Based Violence in Myanmar and the Military Coup

International
Myanmar has long struggled as a multicultural society governed primarily through the ethnic Burmese-led military known as the Tatmadaw. The conflict exists since gaining independence…


Liberia: Pres. Weah to Constitute Committee to Probe Nimba Land Dispute

International
President George Manneh Weah has disclosed plan to set up a committee that will be charged with the responsibility to thoroughly investigate the land dispute…


Kyrgyzstan/Tajikistan: Four Die as Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan Armies Clash on Disputed Border

International
Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan traded blame on Thursday for cross-border shelling and clashes that left at least four people dead and dozens injured in a conflict…


Liberia: Government Reportedly Indebted to Forest Affected Communities More Than US$3M Land Rental Fees

International
The National Benefit Sharing Trust Board (NBSTB) said the Government of Liberia owes forest affected communities more than US$3 million in land rental fees accrued…


Burkina Faso: No Trees, No Crops, No Jobs: Burkina Faso's Women Fall Back on Hard Labour

International
Wiping her sandy fingers on her shirt, Balkissa Sawadogo for a moment rests her aching body from shovelling sand and gravel into piles. Three years ago,…


Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone’s Mining Sector in Focus: 2018 – 2021

International
In April 2018, His Excellency, Retired Brigadier Dr Julius Maada Bio became President of Sierra Leone, and, among other things, he promised to transform the…


Liberia: More Than 1.3 Million Hectares Now under Community Ownership & Control

International
Local communities across Liberia seem to be taking advantage of the new Land Rights Law to reclaim their ancestral land. With more than 1.3 million…


Regenerative Women on the Land

Event
Grab a cuppa and join us for a restful hour building connections with other women who cohabit the land. This is our second meet up,…


Liberia: Weah Frowns at Border Disputes in South-Eastern Counties

International
President George M. Weah has announced the setting-up of special a committee compromising elders, chiefs and members of the legislative caucuses of Maryland, River Gee…


Ethiopia/Sudan: Will Sudan-Ethiopia Border Conflict Affect GERD Talks?

International
Border tensions have escalated between Sudan and Ethiopia in the past few days, coupled with Ethiopian threats to Sudan if it does not respond to…


Ethiopia: Pregnant Women Struggle to Find Support, Stability After Displacement From Tigray Region in Ethiopia

International
GONDAR, Ethiopia – “When you think about your future, you never plan to be uprooted from the comfort of your home and find fragile safety in a…


Sustainability and Gender Equality in Agriculture: How do Voluntary Standards Fit In?

Event
Join us for the International Development Week edition of Be the Change, MCIC's SDGs event series — this time, for a conversation with Cristina Larrea…


Myanmar: Ethnic Groups Demand Input in Myanmar Land Reforms

International
Development organizations and farming groups from ethnic minority areas have called on the government to postpone land reforms, saying they will crush indigenous people’s rights.…


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…