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Afghanistan: Female Entrepreneurs Enter the Seed Market in Rural Afghanistan
International
The lack of availability of quality seeds remains a constraint in Afghanistan, hampering agricultural productivity. Against this background, ICARDA recently reintroduced the concept of village-based…
DRC: DRC Cobalt Will Become 'Strategic'
International
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will soon declare cobalt and other minerals as “strategic” resulting in miners having to pay even higher royalties.
Climate Change: Integrating Gender in the Mitigation of Climate Change
International
The Focal Point of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change for Liberia at the EPA says the issue of climate change continues to…
A Mother's Impossible Choice: Risk Rape to Feed Your Family, or Starve
International
On a dirt path dotted with bright-red bougainvillea, women in ankle-length dresses gather in groups of five or more before venturing into the forest. Right…
South Sudan: A Mother's Impossible Choice: Risk Rape to Feed Your Family, or Starve
International
Based on interviews, the UN estimates that 70% of women living in camps have been raped. Since the beginning of the conflict in 2013, South…
Conflict Minerals: The “Blood” Diamonds
International
After being applied in more than 20 different industries around the globe, it is no surprise that blockchain is now being used in the diamond…
Meet the Women Protecting Vanuatu's Resources for Future Generations
News
Located in the South Pacific, the small, low-lying islands of Vanuatu are home to immense cultural and ecological diversity. However, these beautiful islands and the…
Afghanistan: How Afghanistan's Urban Gardens Are Changing Women's Lives
International
It may look like they're just planting and weeding, but for the women tending the public gardens of Jalalabad, the tasks represent far more: the…
Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone in Fourth Bid to Launch Oil Sector with Licensing Round
International
Seeking to capitalise on higher oil prices, Sierra Leone has extended the deadline of a fourth oil licensing round for five deep water offshore blocks…
Common Pool: Equitable Water Governance Brings Prosperity to Sabkhali
Blog
The Sundarbans, a vast forest in the coastal region of the Bay of Bengal, are considered one of the natural wonders of the world. Lying…
Q&A: Getting Women's Land Rights Recognized
Blog
Philippine Sutz describes work under way to help secure land rights for women in Senegal and Tanzania, and explains how accessing land gives them greater…
Liberia: Dowry and Women’s Land Rights in Liberia: A “Double-Edged Sword” for Women
International
Dowry is a double-edged sword. Research indicates that, on one side of the sword, it can afford a woman social status from both her biological…
Liberia: Weah Warned Against Cruel Land Reform
International
Enacting the Land Rights Bill, which has been severely altered against the interest of poor forest dwellers would no doubt undermine Liberia’s peace, security, economic…
Liberia: Liberia Looks to Women for Equal Distribution of Forest Resources
International
An eight-bedroom guesthouse, a five-classroom school and a palaver hut are major achievements of a community forest development committee (CFDC) of a community affected by…
Nile Basin: How Big Land Deals Add Stress to the River Nile
International
One of the major scenes of a potential water crisis and conflict is the Nile, the longest in the world. It flows 11 countries -…
Cambio Climático y Conflictividad Socioambiental en América Latina y el Caribe (Climate Change and Socio-environmental Conflict in Latin America and the Caribbean)
Briefs & Development
This article contributes to the conceptual and policy debates on the relationship between climate change, security and conflict in Latin America and the Caribbean, a…
Pathways to Achieving Food Security, Sustainable Peace and Gender Equality: Evidence from Three FAO Interventions
Briefs & Development
There is increasing recognition that livelihood security, sustainable peace, conflict prevention and gender equality are complementary goals requiring integrated policy approaches, yet there is limited…
Housing Land and Property in the Far North of Cameroon
Briefs & Development
The ongoing armed conflict in the Lake Chad Basin region has caused mass displacement in northeast Nigeria and the Far North of Cameroon forcing people…
Assessment of Dispute Resolution Structures and HLP Issues in Borno and Adamawa States, North-East Nigeria
Briefs & Development
The armed conflict in the Lake Chad region has caused mass displacement in north-east Nigeria, forcing people to flee the violence and abandon their homes.The…
How Do Post-Conflict Environmental Initiatives Affect Women's Empowerment within Natural Resource Management in the Short Term?
Briefs & Development
This thesis aims to explain how post-conflict environmental initiatives affect women’s empowerment within natural resource management in the short term. It argues that the lack…
Gender and Water in a Changing Climate: Challenges and Opportunities
Briefs & Development
Climate change is exacerbating existing water insecurity globally, with significant gender consequences. Changes in water availability, access, scarcity and security play critical roles in shaping…
Women as Change-makers in the Governance of Shared Waters
Briefs & Development
Issues of women’s participation and gender equality in the governance of shared waters have received insufficient attention to date in both the research and practice…
Western Region Drought Response Humanitarian Situation Report #2 (30 September 2018)
Briefs & Development
The total number of registered IDPs both inBadghis and Heratremained stable in the last few weeks, with 15,560 families (95,365 individuals) reportedly in Badghis, and…
Gender and Climate-Induced Migration in the Mediterranean: From Resilience to Peace and Human Security
Briefs & Development
The research presented in the following sections explores the interaction between gender, migration and climate change, as well as the way forward for a proactive…
Feminization of Agriculture in the Eastern Hills of Nepal: A Study of Women in Cardamom and Ginger Farming
Briefs & Development
There have been very few studies in the process of feminization of agriculture in Nepal. The overall purpose of this study was to analyze the…
Climate Change Profile: Yemen
Country Assessments
Yemen faces serious risks from climate change that further threaten the already fragile state of the country1. As climate change and rapid population growth put…
Towards a gender-responsive implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
Library
More than one third of the Earth’s land is currently degraded, affecting 2.6 billion people in more than 100 countries. Widespread and unprecedented land degradation,…
Armed Conflict and Environmental Protection: Global Environment Facility Insights for Security and Sustainability
Briefs & Development
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) is the largest multilateral funder of environmental protection projects. Here we find, through tiered multiscale meta-evaluative analysis of GEF's online…
Healing the Scars of War: The Women Rebuilding Mozambique's National Park
Library
In the heart of central Mozambique, Gorongosa park was destroyed in the crossfire of the country's civil war. Now women are leading the way in its restoration,…
The Afghanistan National Peace and Development Framework 2017-2021
Briefs & Development
The Afghanistan National Peace and Development Framework (ANPDF) is a five-year strategic plan for achieving self-reliance. The sustainable development that will help Afghanistan meet its…