Blogs & Opinion
COVID-19 and the Food System: Setback or Opportunity for Gender Equality?
31 July 2020 | Catherine Ragasa and Isabel Lambrecht
Agriculture and the food sector are critical to food and nutrition security. They not only produce food for growing populations but also contribute to economic empowerment. However, food systems at al...
Scale Climate Action by Engaging With Women’s Organizations: Why Climate and Gender Funders Must Work Together
28 July 2020 | Jeannette Gurung
Global frameworks for climate action, including but not limited to the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, have recognized that they must respect and promote gender equali...
We Can't Build Back Better Without Economic Justice for Racialized Women
28 July 2020 | Carmina Ravanera and Anjum Sultana
This summer has been one of racial reckoning. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, millions joined in Black Lives Matter protests around the world, protesting police brutality and systemic racism....
Fund Resilience: Create Systemic Change by Working at the Nexus of Climate and Gender
23 July 2020 | Prachi Seth
Women in developing countries are particularly vulnerable to climate change due to their high dependency on natural resources for their livelihoods coupled with lesser economic, political, and legal c...
How COVID-19 Can Bring Gender Justice
23 July 2020 | Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka and Helena Dalli
Disasters shape the course of history. In the wake of the Spanish flu of 1918, more women entered the labour market and in roles previously reserved for men. Some were even paid an equal wage to their...
To Solve the Climate Crisis, Women Must Own More of the World's Land
21 July 2020 | Martha Merrow
Land, women, and climate change: the future of all three are intrinsically connected and must be addressed comprehensively to create equitable change and a livable future. Women, particularly Indigen...
Crisis Reveals the Fault Lines of Gender in Environmentalism—How Do We Value Everyday Environments?
20 July 2020 | Nathalie Blanc, Sandra Laugier, Pascale Molinier, and Anne Querrien
These are times of crisis. One might even think that the COVID-19 crisis looks like a an alternative expression of crises that are already building, especially ecological ones. Harald Welzer in The C...
Why Gender Provisions in Peace Agreements Are Not Enough to Ensure Post-Conflict Progress for Women
20 July 2020 | Nicole Smith
The United Nations recently announced that almost 80 million people were forcibly displaced around the world last year due to war, conflict, or persecution. As COVID-19 continues to spread across bo...
In Mozambique, Promoting Biodiversity Includes Greater Gender Equality
17 July 2020 | Amanda Jerneck and Carmen Lahoz Rallo
Increasing girls’ access to education and empowering women has become a core intervention area of the Mozambique Integrated Landscape Management (ILM) Portfolio, of which MozBio is part. Mozambique...
COVID-19 and Gender Equality: Countering the Regressive Effects
15 July 2020 | Anu Madgavkar, Olivia White, Mekala Krishnan, Deepa Mahajan, and Xavier Azcue
As COVID-19 continues to affect lives and livelihoods around the world, we can already see that the pandemic and its economic fallout are having a regressive effect on gender equality. By our calcula...