Gender in agriculture

  1. World Bank Group Releases ' Voice and Agency' Report
    The World Bank Group has released for purchase and free download its groundbreaking report  Voice and Agency: Empowering Women and Girls for Shared Prosperity.    Building on the 2012 World Development Report, the report focuses on several areas key to women's empowerment: freedom…
  2. UN Women Changing Lives series
    On Rural Women’s Day, the Gender Agriculture Partnership (GAP) and the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR) celebrate the talents of women farmers around the world. First released in 2012, “Changing Lives in Africa”, tells inspiring stories of women and the communities whose lives have…
  3. Video - Funding Female Farmers for a Less Hungry World
    GFAR and Food Tank have produced this new video highlighting how meeting the needs of women farmers equals a better world. Women are the backbone of the world’s food systems. Across the planet, women and girl farmers play a key role in producing, processing, marketing and retailing food…
  4. Five Ways to Make Agriculture Innovation Better Serve the Needs of Women Farmers
    Gender inequalities in rural areas are now more and more acknowledged by governments, scientists, and farmers. Lost opportunities or potential gains from gender equality on food security, livelihoods, and development have been widely analyzed. But progress in empowering rural women in…
  5. CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Agricultural Production Systems Publishes its Gender Strategy 2014
    Throughout 2013 GFAR provided technical input to the Drylands Systems CRP by supporting the integration of a gender and youth focus informed by gender experts of the Gender in Agriculture Partnership (GAP), and with direct support of two GFAR Secretariats staff - one of them…
  6. Does the feminisation of agricultural labour empower women? Insight from female labour contractors and workers in northwest Syria
    With major socio-economic changes in the Middle East and North Africa spurring men’s exit from agriculture, women now represent over 60 per cent of the agricultural workforce in several countries.   Drawing on original field research, this paper analyses the emergence of female agricultural…
  7. Professional Fellows Program - Economic Empowerment of Women
    Source: GAP website Hands Along the Nile Development Services (HANDS), in cooperation with the Center of Arab Women for Training and Research (CAWTAR), is accepting applications for US exchange and fellowship opportunity for mid-level professionals engaged with non-governmental, private or…
  8. Six Innovative Initiatives that are Working to Strengthen Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture
    Source: Food Tank Farmers and farmers groups, researchers and scientists, and government leaders and policy-makers from across the continent are gathered to better understand family farming in North America and to agree upon common recommendations for the development and support of family…
  9. GFAR Bridges the Gender Gap, Uniting Agricultural Research & Concrete Projects
    Source: Food Tank According to a 2011 report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), women comprise around 43 percent of the agricultural labor force in developing countries. However, FAO also notes, “women face overt and implicit discrimination in access to…
  10. Women Advisory Service Providers in Food Processing Sector: Case of Punjab, India
    Inclusion of rural women in scientific and technological endeavours and realizing women’s intellectual potential is a big challenge in developing countries. Women play a decisive role in many facets of agricultural sector. Creating multiple opportunities for women in agribusiness enterprises…
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