Blogs & Opinion
The Paradox of Plenty and Its Impact on Gendered Policy
17 October 2019 | Eliana Cusato
Access to and distribution of natural resources are often at the root of violent conflict. Yet it is only over the last few decades that international institutions and scholars have started to pay att...
Coming Out! Gender Diversity in the Food System
16 October 2019 | Paula Gioia
In the current global context, discrimination is used as a tool to preserve and support authoritarian and far-right political movements. Immigrants and refugees are denied their legal right to asylum,...
Letter from Buganda: Let Us Rise Together and Stand for Her Land
16 October 2019 | Cizzy N. Kiyaga
Buganda is a major subnational kingdom in central Uganda. While over 10 million people live and work on land owned by the kingdom, the land authority known as Buganda Land Board (BLB) records just 250...
Women Help Feed the World. Why Can't They Own Land?
15 October 2019 | Karol Boudreaux
In rural areas around the world, the face of a farmer is increasingly a woman’s. From the paddy terraces of Asia to the maize fields of sub-Saharan Africa, she will till, plant, water, and harvest...
From Poor Harvests to a Lack of Property Rights: The Struggles of Sindhi Rural Women
15 October 2019 | Shiza Malik
Celebrated on the 15th of October every year, International Rural Women’s Day often goes unnoticed in Pakistan, just as the voices of the millions of women who live in rural areas go unheard in the...
Around the World, Young People Are Driving Climate Innovation
14 October 2019 | Climate Justice Resilience Fund
2019 will be remembered as the year young people took to the streets around the world to fight for their future.Inspired by Greta Thunberg and other outspoken teens, millions of young people have been...
Why Women Farmers Deserve the Right to Identity
14 October 2019 | Shipra Deo
In a workshop with a group of agronomists who work in agriculture extension in India, I ask the participants to draw the picture of a farmer with whom they work. All but one of them draw male figures....
From Rajasthan to Mexico: Why Gender Matters at the Heart of The Energy Transition
13 October 2019 | Costanza Burstin, Mouna Chambon, Morgane Ollier, and Cécile Spanu
In 2013, the climate negotiations (COP19) culminated with a promising consensus for women across the world: gender was voted as an independent agenda item in the international climate talks. Since the...
The Next Big Opportunity for Gender Equality?
11 October 2019 | Ewa Lewandowska
The movement for a circular economy has focused on the environmental and business impacts of circularity, with far less interest (from researchers and policymakers) dedicated to its social implication...
Climate-Justice and Gender-Justice Have to Go Hand-in-Hand
11 October 2019
“We demand that the new European Commission secures equal rights for everyone – and that they work hard to smash the gender-gap, both inside and outside the European Union. Because the young girls...