Blogs & Opinion
How Can Data Build a Truer Picture of the Gender Gap in Food Insecurity?
4 February 2020 | Teresa Welsh
Getting an accurate picture of the differences in food security between men and women can be hampered by typical household survey methods, experts say.The most comprehensive data is gathered by nation...
Building Women's Resilience and Livelihoods
3 February 2020
At IFAD we know that the face of a farmer is often a woman’s face. Around the world today, women make up over half the people working in agriculture – as smallholders, market gardeners, wage labou...
For Thailand's Female Land Rights Defenders, Activism Is a Dangerous and Daunting Necessity
2 February 2020 | Lam Le
Growing up, cassava farmer Nittaya Muangklang did not think she would ever become an activist – let alone that she would lead a group of land rights defenders in the first-ever bid to challenge Thai...
Why Post- War Women's Livelihood Strategies Have Failed in Lanka's Eastern Province
2 February 2020 | PK Balachandran
Sri Lanka’s post-war livelihood strategies for women in the Eastern Province have failed, necessitating fresh thinking based on the experience garnered so far and the findings of researches conducte...
Mountain Women Bear the Brunt of Climate Change
1 February 2020 | Suruchi Bhadwal, Ghanashyam Sharma, Ganesh Gorti, and Sudeshna Maya Sen
Climate change impacts are disproportionate and influence lives and livelihoods variedly. One crucial determinant of these disproportionate impacts is gender. Existing social norms determine roles and...
Enhancing Gender-Responsive Disaster Risk Management: Why a Change of Mindset Is the First Step
30 January 2020 | Emily Brearley, Thembi Kumapley, and Katharine Vincent
Mortality rates from disaster occurrences are exponentially higher for women than for men. Some studies actually find that women and children are 14 times more likely than men to die when a disaster s...
Climate Breakdown "Is Increasing Violence Against Women"
29 January 2020 | Fiona Harvey
Climate breakdown and the global crisis of environmental degradation are increasing violence against women and girls, while gender-based exploitation is in turn hampering our ability to tackle the cri...
Climate Change is Contributing to Exploitation of Women, New Report Details
29 January 2020 | Tebany Yune
Climate-related crises in poorer countries increases violence and exploitation of women, says a recent report, and current attempts to address climate change fail to tackle this issue. This was the c...
Facing Climate Change in Honduras: The Importance of Gender Equity
28 January 2020 | Arely Valdivia
The women of the municipality of Namasigue, Honduras, have found empowerment in the Local Technical Agroclimatic Committee (LTAC) of the municipality of Choluteca. LTACs allow women to actively part...
How One Woman's Aptitude for Farming Inspired a Whole Community
24 January 2020
Nestled among date trees and endless lush fields in southeastern Pakistan is the district of Tando Allahyar. The main source of income for many villages in the area is farming, as it is in the rest of...