The International Day of Rural Women (IDRW) celebrates the vital role that rural women play in the well-being and development of their communities. When it comes to agriculture and climate change, the specific needs of women are often overlooked when developing farming practices and technologies ...
Access to up to date climate information helps smallholder farmers make informed agriculture decisions. However, due to gender-related factors, women and men can face differing challenges and opportunities to access climate-related information as well as using it to improve management and benefit...
Turner, Jacquelyn
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[Mainstreaming gender in climate services: a new tool from CCAFS/IRI]
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Mainstreaming gender in climate services: a new tool from CCAFS/IRI
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
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[International Women's Day Interview with Ezinne Ibe]
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International Women's Day Interview with Ezinne Ibe
Usually at the design stage of research programmes, technical researchers appreciate the integration of gender. But when it comes to field activities, the time and money needed to conduct research with a gender lens are seen as a constraint. Technical scientists tend to put aside some gender aspe...
Kinati, Wole
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[Creating win-win situations for scientists: Gender and technical scientists working together]
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Creating win-win situations for scientists: Gender and technical scientists working together
Tom Randolph highlights how researchers are incentivized to take up gender as an important component of their research. Once they define a project with a gender component, they can receive financial support to implement the project or get backstopping by a gender specialist. Scientists are encour...
Randolph, Thomas F.
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[Creating incentives for gender integration in livestock and fish research]
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Creating incentives for gender integration in livestock and fish research
Mats Lannerstad is currently working on two major projects that incoroprate gender. One is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; it assesses the environmental imapcts of development projects. The researchers ask local stakeholders to contribute in various stages of the process, analysi...
Lannerstad, Mats
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[Hearing voices: Reconciling scale and gender in agricultural research]
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Hearing voices: Reconciling scale and gender in agricultural research
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
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[International Women's Day Interview with Doose Sesugh]
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International Women's Day Interview with Doose Sesugh
United States Agency for International Development
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[SERVIR Motiongraphic, with Portuguese subtitels]
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SERVIR Motiongraphic, with Portuguese subtitels
Asociación para la Conservación de la Cuenca Amazónica
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[Comunidades indígenas y uso de información geoespacial - AIDESEP]
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Comunidades indígenas y uso de información geoespacial - AIDESEP