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Sudan: Largest Unit of Indian Women Peacekeepers in Sudan Conflict Zone
International
The contingent has 25 women soldiers from the Corps of Military Police (CMP) and the Assam Rifles, senior Defence officials familiar with the matter said.
Liberia: Communities Affected by Commercial Logging in Liberia Demand Payment of Their Land Rental Fees
International
Representatives of Communities affected by commercial logging in Liberia are calling on the Government of Liberia through the National Legislators to ensure that the communities’…
The Climate-Conflict-Urban Migration Nexus: Honduras, Jordan, and Pakistan
Briefs & Development
In Honduras, chronic droughts and severe natural disasters, including hurricanes and landslides, increasingly drive rural migrants to cities, where chronic gang violence and a lack of…
Gendered Violence Martying Filipina Environmental Defenders
Briefs & Development
This article contributes to discussions of extractive violence by exploring how gender influences violent circumstances under which women were assassinated during environmental conflicts. Partnership with…
Impact of Environmental Crime on Indigenous Women: Evidence from Ecuador, Mexico, Cameroon and Indonesia
Library
Organized crime is driving environmental degradation and biodiversity loss in forest eco- systems around the world. The impact of environmental degradation on indigenous forest-dependent communities…
Community Voices on Climate, Peace and Security: Kenya
Briefs & Development
This study conducted a participatory appraisal of climate vulnerabilities and conflict risks three communities across Kenya: 1) members of the Yiaku Indigenous Peoples in the…
Food Sovereignty for Health, Agriculture, Nutrition, and Gender Equity: Radical Implications for Haiti
Briefs & Development
Governments usually see food security in terms of the availability of and access to sufficient, nutritious, and culturally appropriate food. Food justice scholars, however, see…
Gender, Agriculture Policies, and Climate-Smart Agriculture in India
Briefs & Development
Women farmers have limited land ownership, access to credit, access to information and formal extension, and time, constraining adoption of climate smart practices.
Gender and Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene: Three Opportunities to Build From Recent Reporting on Global Progress, 2000–2022
Briefs & Development
Climate migration is an emerging policymaking area not yet regulated by European Law.
Gender Exclusion in Indonesia’s Community-Based Forest Management Extension Program
Briefs & Development
This study investigates the gender dimensions of Indonesia’s Community-based Forest Management (CBFM) extension program. It employs a mixed-method approach to examine women’s participation and benefits,…
Women Farmers Leading and Co-Learning in an Agroecology Movement at the Intersections of Gender and Climate
Briefs & Development
This study, carried out in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, was particularly interested in women farmers’ access to social learning spaces for expanding…
Hydro-Heritage for Healing? Examining the Gendered Experience of Water in Post-Conflict Swat, Pakistan
Briefs & Development
Water has been formulated as a resource or a hazard within water resources geography. The authors propose that reframing of water as hydro-heritage opens up…
The Impact of Conflict on Food Security: Evidence from Household Data in Ethiopia and Malawi
Briefs & Development
Violent conflicts threaten food security and household welfare in sub-Saharan Africa. While a more robust understanding of the causal relationship between food security and conflict…
Race, Ethnicity, and the Case for Intersectional Water Security
Briefs & Development
This Forum article reports on a meta-review of more than 19,000 published works on water security, of which less than 1 percent explicitly focus on…
Standing Firm: The Land and Environmental Defenders on the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis
Briefs & Development
For the past 11 years, Global Witness has documented and denounced waves of threats, violence and killings of land and environmental defenders across the world,…
The Role of Fair and Equitable Benefit-Sharing in Environmental Peacebuilding (chapter in "Research Handbook on International Law and Environmental Peacebuilding")
Briefs & Development
This chapter explores the role of international legal obligations on fair and equitable benefit-sharing to the integration of natural resource management and environmental protection in…
Integrating Gender, Peace and Environment: The Gender Dimension of Environmental Peacebuilding
Briefs & Development
The interlinked nature of environmental protection and natural resource management on the one hand, and peacebuilding on the other, has been clearly established in the foregoing chapters.…
Gender, Agriculture Policies and Climate Smart Agriculture in India
Briefs & Development
India’s agricultural systems are increasingly affected by the adverse effects of climate change. While the Government of India has put together an impressive set of…
An Examination of Race/Ethnicity, Gender, and Employer Affiliations on University Natural Resource Program Advisory Boards
Briefs & Development
Many university natural resource (NR) programs in the U.S. have external partners and stakeholders who serve on advisory boards. These boards can influence programs in…
Challenging Shea As a Woman’s Crop – Masculinities and Resource Control in Burkina Faso
Briefs & Development
This article pays attention to the gendered resource struggles and changing division of labor of the feminized shea fruit in Burkina Faso. The aim of…
Occupational Sex Segregation in Agriculture: Evidence on Gender Norms and Socio-Emotional Skills in Nigeria
Briefs & Development
Occupational sex segregation is a key driver of the gender gap in earnings. Using data from 11,691 aspiring agribusiness entrepreneurs in Nigeria, this article explores…
Indigenous Women's Employment in Natural Resource Industries in Canada: Patterns, Barriers and Opportunities
Briefs & Development
This paper identifies barriers and opportunities that Indigenous women in Canada face in energy, mining, and forest sector employment through a review of scholarly and…
Green Innovation and Political Embeddedness in China’s Heavily Polluted Industry: Role of Environmental Disclosure, Gender Diversity, and Enterprise Growth
Briefs & Development
Innovation in green technology is an efficient approach to reducing carbon emissions and achieving energy conservation, which is essential for fostering sustainable and green economic…
Gender, Women and Agriculture in Agriculture and Human Values
Briefs & Development
This article reflects on how Agriculture and Human Values has approached women, gender, and agriculture over the years based on a content analysis of the…
Gender Stereotypes in Ecological Research Themes: An Analysis of the Last 20 Years of the Argentinian Ecology Conferences
Briefs & Development
Although Argentina harbours a notable increase in the academic community, achieving the highest number of researchers per capita in Latin America, the gender gap is…
Transnational Perspectives on Gender, Food and Ecology
Briefs & Development
This issue of Agenda broadens and deepens meanings, conceptual and critical approaches to the subject of food covered in previous issues of the journal. This thematic issue…
Gender Identities, Water Insecurity, and Risk: Re‐theorizing the Connections for a Gender‐Inclusive Toolkit for Water Insecurity Research
Briefs & Development
Informed by decades of literature, water interventions increasingly deploy “gender‐sensitive” or even “gender transformative” approaches that seek to redress the disproportionate harms women face from…
Uncovering Gender Disparities in Payment for Forest Environmental Services (PFES): A Feminist Political Ecology View from Vietnam
Briefs & Development
Investigating gender disparities in PFES participation and knowledge in Vietnam.
Politics of the Olive Branch: Environmental Peacebuilding and the Nexus of Natural Resources, Violent Conflict, and Peace Nexus of Natural Resources, Violent Conflict, and Peace
Briefs & Development
At the intersection of the natural environment, conflict, and peace, the study and practice of environmental peacebuilding rests on the recognition that thoughtful management and…
Status of Gender Equality in Ocean Research, Conservation and Management Institutions and Organisations in Kenya
Briefs & Development
Gender equality is key to achieving the objectives of the United Nation’s Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. In patriarchal societies, men’s dominance has…