Gender, Youth and Inclusivity blog posts

New research argues that two critical shifts influenced how and why gender became more visible in natural resource management and governance: the evolution of community collectives and the concept of plurality of institutional arrangements.

On International Women's Day, we explore why a more feminist approach is needed to disrupt and challenge how gender is addressed in natural resource management.  

A pioneering pilot training program in India and Nepal is challenging tradition and helping communities to rethink gender relations in agriculture. Could its approach help to address gender inequalities more broadly?

A study conducted in the Eastern Gangetic Plains, where a significant portion of them were women, showed that landless and marginal farmers gained from collectives individually - and as a whole.

In Nepal, the legal quota for women’s participation in official community water management groups marks an important step towards gender equality. For meaningful change however, there also needs to be structural transformation. 

The WLE FG5 team aims to use text mining as an effective means of drawing attention to progress as well as identifying critical gaps, as in the case of gender based issues.

Covid has severely affected low income women farmers in Nepal more than other vulnerable groups. Here is why supporting them should be a top priority. 

Four women in science shares their perspectives about how gender  influenced their professional lives, and examine the progress and challenges for women in science.

The inherent social dimension must be considered during the design and implementation of ecosystem restoration schemes, particularly in terms of the interaction between formal and informal institutions, to get better and more equitable outcomes from those schemes.

Originally published on the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, water, nutrition and agriculture experts share insight on technology adoption for women farmers.  

It's not enough to include women in agricultural solutions. We need to rethink and retool these solutions to address the structural issues that make women unequal actors and participants in development.

Small-scale irrigation technologies are transforming the backyards of Ethiopian farmers.