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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…
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.…
Gender Inequality and Land Rights : The Situation of Indigenous Women in Cameroon
Briefs & Development
Land is an essential resource that serves as a means of subsistence for millions of people in the world and indigenous communities and women in…
Relational Agriculture: Gender, Sexuality, and Sustainability in U.S. Farming
Briefs & Development
Although 97% of U.S. farms are “family-owned,” little research examines how gender and sexual relationships – inherent in familial dynamics – influence farmers’ practices and…
Lessons Learned from the Peace Centers for Climate and Social Resilience
Briefs & Development
This report provides an assessment of lessons learned from a pilot project in Borana Zone, Oromia National Regional State, Ethiopia, that tests that proposition. Since…
No Tribe In Crime: Changing Pastoralism and Conflict in Nigeria’s Middle Belt - Research and Policy Brief
Briefs & Development
Farmer-pastoralist conflict in Nigeria has attracted increased media attention both locally and internationally, though its main actors, causes, and consequences are often the source of…
Grey Literature on Gender Equality, Agriculture, and Rural Development
Briefs & Development
Agriculture is one of the oldest and most widespread activities in the world. However, differences between women and men, be it in employment, pay or…
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…
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…
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…
Achieving Food Security in the Face of Inequity, Climate Change, and Conflict (chapter in "The Difficult Task of Peace")
Briefs & Development
Achieving sustainable agriculture and food security for all is one of the major challenges of the twenty-first century. The United Nations 2018 State of the…
Good Practices for Integrating Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in Climate-Smart Agriculture Programmes
Library
This guidance entitled Integrating Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in CSA Programs focuses on a set of agricultural practices to be implemented by small-scale food…
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…
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…
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,…
Land Governance in Post-Conflict Settings: Interrogating Decision-Making by International Actors
Briefs & Development
Humanitarian and development organizations working in conflict-affected settings have a particular responsibility to do no harm and contribute to the wellbeing of the population without…
Towards Gender-Responsive Implementation of Extractive Industries Projects
Library
Women and men are impacted differently by extractive industries projects. Despite this, extractive industries companies frequently take a gender-neutral approach to human rights due diligence,…
Lessons from Environmental Peacebuilding Programming
Briefs & Development
This rapid literature review collates lessons from conflict resolution/peacebuilding programmes that include land, resource management, and/or environmental issues. This is a burgeoning area of research…
Climate Change Impacts on Gender Relations in Bangladesh: Socio-Environmental Struggle of the Shora Forest Community in the Sundarbans Mangrove Forest
Briefs & Development
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,…
Empowering Women Means Taking a Stand for Environmental Rights
Briefs & Development
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…
Empowering Women on the Front Lines of Climate Change
Briefs & Development
On any given morning in the locality of Al-Rahad in Sudan, women like Hawa Abdullah, dressed in bright colours, can be seen turning up the…
Shoring Up Stability: Addressing Climate and Fragility Risks in the Lake Chad Region
Briefs & Development
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,…
Land and Conflict Prevention: How Integrated Solutions Can Help Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals
Briefs & Development
Furthering interlinkages between different Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), the Working Group on Peace and Development (FriEnt) and its partners have compiled a dossier with good…