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Women’s Land Rights in Colombia
Securing Women’s Resource Rights through Gender Transformative Approaches
This paper reviews land governance in Colombia to examine how legal, institutional, and cultural frameworks influence women’s land rights. It reviews existing statutory regulations and institutional structures defining land rights in Colombia and their relevance for women. It will examine tenure interventions in Colombia and the existing gaps and constraints...
Colombia
2024 - Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF)
Fact sheet
Mali: Fostering Agricultural Productivity Project
This project introduced a range of renewable energy technologies to enhance the lives of rural people. Biogas digesters were coupled with latrines and slurry storage was developed. Sustainable bio slurry will replace chemical fertilizers, allowing households to save money and consume healthier foods. Biogas digesters also alleviate burdens on women...
Mali
2024 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Article
In the Pacific coast of Colombia, guardians of the mangrove sow seeds of change
The 'shell women' of the Pacific coast of Nariño have promoted sustainable harvesting and use of a native mollusk called piangua for the many generations. They are also at the forefront of mitigating climate change and leading mangrove conservation.
Colombia
2024 - UNWOMEN
Audio
Autonomisation économique des femmes en Afrique
Réduire l’écart entre les sexes sur le marché du travail, pour assurer l’émancipation économique des femmes. Bien qu’elles enregistrent l’un des taux de participation au marché du travail parmi les plus élevés, les femmes d’Afrique subsaharienne sont toujours confrontées à de nombreux obstacles qui limitent leur accès à un emploi...
2024 - Agence Française de Développement (AFD)
Article
Making Climate-Smart Cocoa Inclusive: Towards a Framework for Gender Transformation
Climate-Smart Cocoa (CSC), a strategic offshoot of the wider Climate-Smart Agriculture, is gaining ground in Ghana, a cocoa export-dependent country. CSC is imperative, given the rapidly declining forests, prolonged periods of drought, pest and disease infestations, and fluctuating cocoa yields attributed to climate variability and change. Although many interventions are...
Ghana
2024 - University of South Africa
Report
The unjust climate
Measuring the impacts of climate change on rural poor, women and youth
Developing policies to foster inclusive rural transformation processes requires better evidence on how climate change is affecting the livelihoods and economic behaviours of vulnerable rural people, including women, youths and people living in poverty. In particular, there is little comparative, multi-country and multi-region evidence to understand how exposure to weather...
2024 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Blog article
Towards gender equality: A novel index to measure the empowerment of women in livestock keeping households
The Women’s Empowerment Livestock Index (WELI) is tailored for areas where livestock farming is prominent, aiming to assess the impact of livestock interventions on women's empowerment. By identifying effective interventions, the index seeks to improve empowerment opportunities for women in the sector, thereby enhancing household livelihoods, nutrition, and gender equity....
2024 - International Livestock Research Institute
Blog article
ANEW way forward: Strategies to promote women’s empowerment in farmer producer organizations
Women's empowerment is essential for achieving agricultural development goals like increasing productivity among smallholders, aligning with Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 2.3 and 5. Agricultural collectives, including producer groups and farmer producer organizations (FPOs), offer promising avenues for empowering women and improving smallholder incomes. Research on this approach is growing, highlighting...
2024 - International Food Policy Research Institute
Article
When looking at the intersection of climate and gender finance, what do we see?
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is negotiating a new climate finance goal, the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG), to set future climate finance scales and ambitions. This is vital as the previous goal set in 2009 will expire in 2024. Integrating gender equality into climate finance...
2024 - ODI
Video
Women from the State of Sucre in Venezuela: resilient and entrepreneurial
FAO Venezuela deployed actions in the states of Amazonas, Apure, and Sucre to "Reduce the protection risks of selected vulnerable communities through the improvement of their food and nutritional security, the rapid restoration/creation of their livelihoods and community awareness and knowledge creation, integrating gender and intersectional approaches", between January 2023...
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
2024 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Newsletter
Yemaya Newsletter No.66, March 2023
Yemaya No. 66, dated March 2023, features articles on IYAFA Asia workshop, National level women in fisheries workshop in Chennai, India, article on gender and marine plastic pollution, report of a panel discussion during the 8th global symposium on gender in aquaculture and fisheries.
Kyoko Kusakabe write that gender responsive fisheries require not only...
2024 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Technical paper
Innovation and family farming
Family farmers innovate by developing assemblages of old and new food system practices and organizational processes, using both traditional and diverse forms of knowledge and connecting these with newly available information and technologies. These innovations have a holistic approach and can take many forms: technological, social, policy, financial, marketing, legislative...
2024 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Book
A toolkit for incorporating fish into the home-grown school feeding programme
Food and nutrition security is one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals enshrined in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In an attempt to contribute to reaching this objective, school feeding programmes are serving meals to over 418 million pre-primary, primary and secondary schoolchildren around the world. The positive experience...
2024 - FAO
Journal article
Rural out-migration and water governance: Gender and social relations mediate and sustain irrigation systems in Nepal
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 this study is to investigate the impact of rural out-migration on collective action in farmer-managed irrigation systems, with a particular focus on household structure and...
Nepal
2024 - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Sweden
Practices
Good Practices for the Sustainable Development of Mountain Areas
Euromontana kicks off the year with the publication of its annual booklet of good practices for sustainable mountain development. This publication showcases 10 inspiring initiatives from across Europe (EU and non-EU) collected by Euromontana throughout 2023 to promote initiatives that drive sustainable change in mountain areas.
The booklet covers key issues for...
Austria - France - Germany - Italy - Norway - Poland - Romania - Spain - Switzerland
2024 - Euromontana - European Association of Mountain Areas
Article
Mechanization supports women farmers’ productivity, but impact on empowerment is inconclusive
Mechanization is regarded as a key tool in the empowerment of women in agriculture. It is often associated with an increase in farmers’ income and time available to invest in alternative economic activities. Evidence suggests a limited but positive impact of mechanization on women’s agricultural productivity. Evidence on the specic...
2024 - CGIAR GENDER Impact Platform
Blog article
Tackling gender inequality in a climate-changed world: How agrifood and social protection systems can empower women and girls to build climate resilience
Air pollution, rising temperatures, crop failures, and water shortages are increasing pressures on health and agrifood systems. During these crises, households often reduce food consumption, sell assets, migrate or adjust labor allocation between men and women. Women and children are at greater risk of food insecurity due to lower access...
2024 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFRPI)
Newsletter
Revue de presse de Juin 2024 - Réseau des Journalistes Africains Spécialisés sur le Développement Durable & le Changement Climatique
L’association Africa 21 propose, grâce à son réseau des journalistes africains spécialisés sur le développement durable et le changement climatique, une revue de presse sur le mois de juin 2024. Vous y retrouverez un grand nombre d’article de presse en français et en anglais sélectionnés par leur soin qui traite...
2024 - Association Africa 21
Book
Social protection as a pathway to sustaining peace
Global crises are becoming the new normal. From climate change to the contemporary food price crisis, vulnerable populations – and especially rural people – are facing increasingly difficult odds of flourishing. Such challenges are even more pronounced where there is conflict, whose multidimensional nature demands to direct more attention to...
2024 - FAO
Book
Scoping review on the role of social protection in facilitating climate change adaptation and mitigation for economic inclusion among rural populations
Rural populations, especially small-scale producers and women, are disproportionately impacted by climate change since their livelihoods depend largely on natural resources and weather patterns. This paper reviews the available evidence on the role of social protection programmes in facilitating climate change adaptation and mitigation, with a specific emphasis on economic...
2024 - FAO
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