Blogs & Opinion
When You Picture a Farmer, Are They a Woman?
16 January 2020 | Donna Hutchinson
CABI has today published a briefing, Empowering female farmers – Gender responsive programming, which is an overview of gender inequality in agriculture, its challenges and impacts, and how CABI is...
A Lukewarm Commitment: India and Gender Equality in Security Affairs
16 January 2020 | Akanksha Khullar
Nearly two decades after the United Nations adopted the landmark Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda, India remains one of the many member states that are yet to develop a WPS National Action Plan...
Climate Change and Its Unequal Impact on Women
15 January 2020 | Mary Merkenich
While some do not want to discuss the cause of Australia’s horrendous bushfires — runaway climate change — even fewer want to talk about how catastrophic fires are disproportionately affecting w...
The Female Face of Southern Africa's Climate Crisis
14 January 2020 | Mark Lowcock and Natalia Kanem
The global climate crisis is not gender neutral. Around the world, women and girls are on the front line of changing weather patterns – disproportionately shouldering the costs and burdens.In Southe...
Addressing Water Security Issues in Bangladesh: the Role of Regional Cooperation and Gender
14 January 2020 | Sharmeen Murshid
Bangladesh faces a very vulnerable position in terms of climate change impacts due to its location, and our quality of water is extremely dependent on water use and management practices upstream. Ther...
African Women Fight Underrepresentation in Climate Research
14 January 2020 | Busani Bafana
As a child, Kenyan meteorologist Saumu Shaka helped out on her parents' small farm growing maize and pigeon pea and learned how the weather can hold food producers hostage."Looking back, the yield has...
A Greener, Gender-Equitable Decade Ahead
13 January 2020
As we enter 2020, we leave behind a decade of successes and challenges in clean energy and climate action.Wind and solar energy now represent the lowest-cost option for power generation in markets whe...
Realizing Dreams Through the Power of Land Rights
6 January 2020 | My-Lan Dodd
In India, a widow named Sonamoti lacks the resources to feed her only son because she was deprived her share of family land. She wishes for the means to grow food for him.Villagers in Myanmar fear the...
How the Climate Crisis Could Reverse Progress on Gender Equality Around the World
1 January 2020 | Mark Leon Goldberg
People who directly depend on the natural world for their livelihoods, like farmers and fishers, will be among the greatest victims of the climate crisis. In vulnerable hotspots, such as the arid land...
Geoengineering's Gender Problem Could Put the Planet at Risk
21 December 2019 | Sarah Sax
A group of British scientists had a plan for a groundbreaking geoengineering test. Working from a disused military airstrip in Norfolk, U.K., they would attach a 3,000-foot hose to a helium balloon,...