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Women and Indigenous Resource Conflict Resolution Options in Uganda’s Oil Region: A Case of Barazas

Briefs & Development
Resource ownership has been associated with power, which has been greatly influenced by patriarchy. The role of women in organising, planning, allocating, and controlling the…


Transforming Water Security through Women's Leadership

Briefs & Development
Today, more than two billion people experience water scarcity in some form. Without intervention, that figure could increase to 3.2 billion people within two decades.…


Empowering Women, Peace and Security in the Coral Triangle: Bridging Civil-Military and State Boundaries to Tackle Maritime Environmental Crimes

Library
The Coral Triangle, spanning Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Solomon Islands, and Timor-Leste, is renowned for its unparalleled marine biodiversity. The region is…


Empowering Women, Peace and Security in the Coral Triangle: Bridging Civil-Military and State Boundaries to Tackle Maritime Environmental Crimes

Library
The Coral Triangle is renowned for its unparalleled marine biodiversity and provides food security to over 130 million people living in and around the region.…


Active Forest Ownership – Perception of Finnish Women Forest Owners

Briefs & Development
Women forest owners understanding of “active forest ownership” was studied for the first time in Finland.


Gender-Differentiated Roles and Perceptions on Climate Variability Among Pastoralist and Agro-Pastoralist Communities in Marsabit, Kenya

Briefs & Development
Climate variability and its impacts affect different members of gender groups in households and society differently. Within the pastoral community, women are more vulnerable, being…


Social Empowerment and Its Effect on Poverty Alleviation for Sustainable Development among Women Entrepreneurs in the Nigerian Agricultural Sector

Briefs & Development
Despite the fact that the issue of female poverty is widespread, continuous attempts are made to combat it and advance women’s empowerment. To achieve the…


Rural Out-Migration and Water Governance: Gender and Social Relations Mediate and Sustain Irrigation Systems in Nepal

Library
Rural out-migration is changing agrarian political economies and natural resource governance worldwide, and gender and social relations play an important mediating role. The aim of…


Addressing Gender Inequalities and Strengthening Women's Agency to Create More Climate-Resilient and Sustainable Food Systems

Library
Climate change affects every aspect of the food system, including all nodes along agri-food value chains from production to consumption, the food environments in which…


Women Leaders in Environmental Management

Briefs & Development
This book chapter explores the significant role of women leaders in environmental management and their impact on sustainable development. Historically, women have been underrepresented in…


From Grazing Units to Milking Units: The Gendered Nature of Intra-Household Livestock Management and Food Security for Pastoralists in Kenya

Briefs & Development
The milking unit (MU) is a key methodological and conceptual tool to illuminate the gendered nature of pastoralist resource access and food security.


Women's Perspectives on Addressing the Decline of Shea Trees in Northern Ghana

Briefs & Development
The Shea tree holds significance in the socio-ecological landscape of northern Ghana. With the escalating impacts of climate change, the diminishing presence of Shea trees…


Can Water, Energy, and Food Policies in Support of Solar Irrigation Enable Gender Transformative Changes? Evidence from Policy Analysis in Bangladesh and Nepal

Briefs & Development
Solar irrigation pumps (SIPs) are emerging as a popular technology to address water, energy, and climate change challenges in South Asia while enhancing livelihoods and…


Gender, Rainfall Endowment, and Farmers’ Heterogeneity in Wheat Trait Preferences in Ethiopia

Briefs & Development
Wheat is a vital cereal crop for smallholders in Ethiopia. Despite over fifty years of research on wheat varietal development, consideration of gendered trait preferences in developing…


Gender and Livelihood Assets: Assessing Climate Change Resilience in Phalombe District – Malawi

Briefs & Development
Social assets are key to resilience for both types of households.


Geontopower as a Feminist Analytic: an Interdisciplinary Triangulation of Women, Water and Feminist Politics in India

Briefs & Development
In this article, I theorise the presence of a contemporary Indian and feminist subaltern consciousness that counters infrastructural striations of female subjecthood. Subaltern Studies scholar…


Farmers’ Perception of Climate Change and Gender Sensitive Perspective for Optimised Irrigation in a Compound Surface-Ground Water System

Briefs & Development
Water is becoming a scarce resource due to the immense intensification of agricultural activity, climate change, and demographic pressure. Hence, information on water use/management and…


Gender Impact Assessment of Land Acquisition Compensation for Sustainable Environmental Management of Wuxikou Hydropower Projects

Briefs & Development
Reservoir compensation and resettlement are the two important keys for enforced migration for water conservancy projects. For reservoir migrants in China, the most severe loss…


A Mother, a Daughter, a Deadly Journey

International
With mountains, intense mud, fast-running rivers and thick rainforest, the Darién Gap, a strip of terrain connecting South and Central America, is one of the…


Ukraine/Russia: Russia Covered up and Undercounted True Human Cost of Floodings after Dam Explosion, AP Investigation Finds

International
The residents of Oleshky in Russian-occupied southern Ukraine could not identify many of those they buried after a catastrophic dam collapse in June sent water…


Afghanistan: Power Supply from Kajaki Dam Stopped for 40 Days

International
Power supply from the Kajaki dam has been stopped for 40 days due to a shortage water in southern Helmand province, an official said.


Indonesia: Indonesia's Transgender Theatre Group is Fighting Climate and Gender Stigma

International
Trans people are disproportionately affected by climate change, and in Jakarta, Indonesia's capital, the trans community is taking matters into its own hands. 


These Fund Managers are Putting Climate + Gender Strategies Into Action

International
It’s early days, but investors are waking up to the outsized impact potential of investing at the intersection of climate action and women’s and girls’…


Gender, Agriculture, and Climate Change with Dr. Maureen Miruka

International
In the first episode of “The Arc,” ECSP’s Claire Doyle and Angus Soderberg interview Dr. Maureen Miruka, Director of Strategic Partnerships and Research at CARE USA.…


Empowering Rural Women: The Transformative Role of Female Agronomists

International
In the global battle against hunger and the pursuit of sustainable food systems, rural women play a pivotal, yet often unrecognized, role. Through the voices…


Ukraine: Fires in Askania-Nova: Consequences of Military Occupation of a Reserve

International
The Askania-Nova Biosphere Reserve in the Kherson region has been under occupation since the first day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Founded by the…


UK: London Exhibition Explores the Link Between Gender and Ecology

International
“Re/Sisters,” now open at the Barbican Art Gallery, features the works of nearly 50 women and nonbinary artists.


Myanmar: Establishing Community-Managed Fish Conservation Zones in the Sittaung River, Myanmar

International
Historically in Myanmar, fishing rights were awarded to businesses with little if any community benefit. Under the National League for Democracy (NLD) government, new fisheries…


Breaking the Silos: A New U.S. Strategy Linking Gender Equality & Climate Action

International
Advancing gender equality and women’s empowerment strengthens our ability to combat climate change, helping us to reduce emissions and build resilience.


Dominican Republic/Haiti: Dominican Republic to Seal Dajabon Border with Haiti in Canal Dispute

International
The Dominican Republic will seal its border with Haiti in its northern Dajabon province if a conflict over access to water from a shared river…