The evidence base is growing: strengthening women’s land rights contributes to women’s empowerment and household welfare. But it isn’t that simple - there are always vested interests to protect the status quo along with the additional issues of navigating gender norms. How can we improve women's land tenure? Join the discussion
How do you incorporate local communities in research? Thaibaan Research is supporting villagers to design and carry out projects that they find important to their daily lives.
What are we actually talking about when we refer to women’s land rights? Here’s what the research is showing us: ten papers from IFPRI authors and partners highlight what we know and what we don’t know - but really should! - about gender and land tenure.
For most Westerners, the idea of common lands conjures up images of English village greens or abandoned wasteland. But in much of the developing world, they are the lifeblood of hundreds of millions of people, sources of sustenance and spirituality, of wealth and welfare.
It’s one of the classic problems in agricultural development: how to scale innovations to reach millions of smallholders on thin budgets? The unstoppable rise of easy-access technology and focus on farmer-to-farmer approaches are breathing new life into a familiar strategy: video extension.
Matrilineal societies are often mistakenly connected with female empowerment. But in light of Rural Women’s Day (October 15), as an anthropologist, I feel the need to raise a red flag.
Soil, and what it means for human survival, hasn’t gotten this much attention since the 1970s and 1980s. But as soils return to the high tables of policymaker, who will be the winners? Fertiliser companies or smallholders? Land grabbers or the hungry?
Today we head to Northern Myanmar where filmmaker Douglas Varchol reports from the field. Varchol joins a research team from the project on "Working together for a better Kachin landscape.”
Foreign direct investment in African agriculture could bring great benefits, but there are risks too. Nowhere is this more true than in sub-Saharan Africa where, for many, land ownership is still seen as the key to a secure income.
The strain on agricultural resources will continue to rise in conjunction with food demand and population growth. Will sustainable intensification be the right answer we're looking for? Is it even feasible? Join the discussion.
The latest episode of the Thrive podcast takes a close look at the ground beneath our feet. Soil, on which terrestrial life depends, is often ignored precisely because it is everywhere and yet invisible.
What are we to make of the proliferation of water funds around the world? Now there’s a question. Would they still be growing in number if they weren’t delivering tangible impacts? Many interventions lack fundamental scientific principles to support them, so the answer in some cases may well be yes. Which is why it is vital that they get the science right.
