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Global: Indigenous Women and the Path to a Just Energy Transition: Voices from the Land
International
Key Ideas:
The implementation of the energy transition is unfolding at the expense of biodiversity and communities — particularly Indigenous women, says Galina Angarova and Daniela…
Colombia: Putumayo’s Women Guardians Defend Land and Culture Amid Colombia’s Deforestation
International
In Colombia southwest, Kamëntšá and Inga Indigenous women are at the forefront of the struggle to defend their territory, which provides water to the rest…
Kenya: Turkana’s Trailblazers: The Women Redefining Leadership on Oil-Rich Land
International
What you need to know: Two Turkana women, Veronica Natesiro and Jane Atabo, are breaking barriers by leading their community’s land governance in Lokichar.Through the Community…
Nepal: Rural Women Reshaping Agriculture in Nepal
International
To mark International Day of Rural Women 2025, we celebrate their leadership, resilience and work towards a world where they are the architects and beneficiaries…
Mexico: Women in Mexico Step Up to Protect Ancient Aztec Farms and Save a Vanishing Ecosystem
International
Jasmín Ordóñez looks out from a wooden boat at the water as she crosses a narrow channel that connects a labyrinth of chinampas, island farms…
DRC: Beans that Break the Cycle: Food, Freedom and Female Power in DRC
International
In eastern DRC, women are reclaiming land through the B4WE project, using biofortified beans to fight malnutrition, gain economic independence, and foster peace. Farming is…
Colombia: Victims of Colombian Conflict Given Land from Pablo Escobar’s ‘Cocaine Hippos’ Ranch
International
Victims of Colombia’s decades-long armed conflict have controversially been given swathes of land from drug baron Pablo Escobar’s ranch, famed for its ‘cocaine hippos’.
President Gustavo Petro…
Gender and Food Security: How Displacement Can Disrupt Traditional Roles in Agriculture-Dependent Communities
Library
When people are displaced, the structures of everyday life are disrupted. Existing gender roles and responsibilities often both become more intense and shape how individuals…
Gender and Food Security: How Displacement Can Disrupt Traditional Roles in Agriculture-Dependent Communities
Library
When people are displaced, the structures of everyday life are disrupted. Existing gender roles and responsibilities often both become more intense and shape how individuals…
Mary’s New Harvest: How Innovation Is Changing Farming in Embu
International
Mary, a smallholder farmer in Runyenjes, Embu, joined GTSTIB pilots to test new seeds, soil tools, and gender dialogues. Her yields and family nutrition improved, empowering her voice in…
Liberia: House Speaker Koon Pledges Action on Rural Women’s Land Rights
International
MONROVIA – House Speaker Richard Nagbe Koon has vowed to champion legislative reforms aimed at empowering rural women and strengthening land rights across Liberia. His…
Tanzania: Protecting Women’s Land Tenure Rights Begins with Women
International
At the age of 70 years, Rehema Mfaume has to face economic and social hardships after her land was taken away by her late husband’s…
From Struggle to Strength: A Young Farmer’s Journey Toward Sustainable Prosperity
Blog
At just 25 years of age, Tigist Adamo’s experience epitomized the daily realities of countless smallholder farmers in South Ethiopia. Confronted by declining crop yields, scarce resources, and…
Dominican Republic: Making Space for Women in Mangrove Conservation
International
Mangroves are the green shields of our ecosystem. In recent times, these green lines of defense are disappearing and with them, the protection they offer…
Colombia: Empowering Women and Protecting the Planet: Resilient Coffee Production in La Celia, Colombia
International
Sainsbury’s and Finlays have partnered to launch a dedicated roast & ground product sourced directly from the lush, rolling hills of La Celia – a…
China: Gender and Social Inclusion Matter for Agrobiodiversity
International
When people think about agrobiodiversity, they often imagine seed banks, crop trials, or ecosystem services. But behind every saved seed and managed landscape are people–often…
Does Nature Love Us Back?
Blog
When you ask young environmentalists if they love nature, they usually raise their hands in agreement.
But what if they are asked if nature loves them…
Gender, Climate and Conflict: Women Building Resilience in Bangladesh’s Fragile Zones
Blog
Following June 2024’s flash floods, when over 2.1 million Sylhet and Sunamganj inhabitants lost all, they had, Shaharima Sharna emerged. A LoGIC community mobiliser, she…
Ecuador: In Ecuador’s Rainforest, Women Gather to Defend the Amazon With Law—and Sisterhood
International
Forty Indigenous leaders, lawyers, and organizers journeyed deep into the Ecuadorian Amazon last week, not for protest or spectacle, but to build a transnational legal…
Building a Climate-Resilient Viet Nam: Strengthening Women’s Role in Agriculture and Leadership
Blog
As one of the most climate-vulnerable countries in the world, Viet Nam is facing an escalating climate crisis. Rising sea levels and increasingly severe disasters…
Securing Women’s Land Rights: A Pathway to Food Security
Blog
Despite playing a central role in food systems, women lack secure land rights in more than half of all countries, posing serious implications for food…
Liberia: RICCE Program Manager Urges Passage of Oil Palm Development Bill to Empower Women and Communities
International
The Program Manager of the Rural Integrated Center for Community Empowerment (RICCE), Madam Renee N. Gibson, has called for the submission and passage of the…
Liberia: From Farm to Market: Digital Platform Connects Women Farmers to Buyers
International
When scrolling through the UN Women and Orange Foundation-supported ”Buy from Women digital platform, the faces of four Liberian women farmers appear. Fifty-six-year-old Gertrude Kpoleh,…
Mexico: Women Who Nourish the Earth: Yuridia Hernández and the Feminine Strength in Sustainable Agriculture
International
In the lands of Oaxaca’s Mixteca, where rainfall no longer comes as it once did and the soil begins to feel the weight of years…
Tanzania: From Burden to Opportunity: Mechanization in Rural Tanzania
International
Beneath vast Tanzanian skies, where fields stretch like patchwork quilts of promise, a quiet revolution is taking root. It doesn’t shout—but whispers change with every…
Unveiling Gender Dynamics and Disparities in the Aquaculture Value Chain: Evidence from Ogun and Delta States
Library
This paper offers new insights into gender norms, roles, participation, relations, and benefits derived by women and men engaged in the aquaculture sector in Ogun…
Liberia: Men, Tradition Denying Women’s Rights to Land
International
JORPOLU CLAN, Bong County – In 2018, Liberia passed the Land Rights Act. The historic legislation grants communities and women customary ownership of ancestral land, putting an end…
What Influences Women’s Participation in Water Governance? Learning from Polder Zones of Bangladesh
Library
Coastal regions of Bangladesh face severe climate-related water challenges, with disproportionate impacts on women due to entrenched gender inequalities in access to resources, mobility, and…
India: Indigenous Women and their ‘Dream Maps’ Seek to Protect Lands from Climate Change
International
At a small stream in India’s eastern state of Odisha, Indigenous villagers catch eels and fish for a dinner celebrating an annual harvest festival. The…
Land, Law, and Legacy: Reconciling Gender Equality with Tradition in Northern Uganda
Report
The Acholi sub-region of Northern Uganda faces a tension in its post-conflict period: reconciling local peacebuilding approaches with national and international standards of gender equality.…