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Addressing Gender in Climate-Smart Smallholder Agriculture

ICRAF Policy Brief 14

This policy brief focuses on the constraints that women face to more equitable participation in smallholder carbon and climate-smart initiatives. It highlights the important role that a flexible learning approach plays in advancing equity goals, and offers recommendations for concrete actions that can empower both women and men.

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Focus on Gender: Business can do more to aid women

SciDev.Net | March 28, 2013

Companies have much to offer when it comes to helping female entrepreneurs in developing countries access markets. Ongoing research into controlling cassava diseases in Africa may boost crop yields. The main beneficiaries of this could be female processors of cassava crops—but only if improved yields come alongside better market access.

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Livestock, Poverty and the Environment—A Balancing Act and a Balanced Account

International Livestock Research Institute Newsletter | April 3, 2013

Territory size shows the proportion of worldwide meat consumption that occurs there (map by Worldmapper). Meat consumption per person is highest in Western Europe, with nine of the top ten meat-consuming populations living in Western Europe (the tenth in this ranking is New Zealand). The most meat is consumed in China, where a fifth of the world population lives.

Authors of a new paper setting out the roles of livestock in developing countries argue that although providing a ‘balanced account’ of livestock’s roles entails something of a ‘balancing act’, we had better get on with it if we want to build global food, economic and environmental security.

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Transformative Partnerships  for a Food-secure World

Check out this creative new video produced by the CGIAR Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security—and see again why women’s participation in agriculture is so important.

Reflections for International Women’s Day: The Feminization of Farming

Women are producing ever more food, but not reaping enough gains. Sharing power with women is a shortcut to reducing hunger and malnutrition, and is the single most effective step to realizing the right to food, says new UN report.

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