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A baby in the field
Curious to know what it’s like to bring a baby to remote areas while Mom conducts research? How can a…
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“People want to understand their rights and options”
Legal empowerment clinics and healthy masculinities trainings have been piloted in Uganda to encourage participation and greater benefit-sharing for women…
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Gender-based participation spurs pilot biochar industry in eastern India
Women cooking at home in Balangir and Nuapada districts in eastern India’s Odisha State rely heavily on firewood-fed mud chulhas…
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“What mattered more to decide our destinies was not our sex but our gender”
In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in mid-November 2023, a group of professionals – staff from the Center for International Forestry Research…
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Overcoming gender barriers helps families in Ethiopia
Ensuring women have fair and equal access to land and resource benefits through Gender Transformative Approaches (GTAs) can yield real…
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Ripple effect: Shifting gender norms in Kenyan forest restoration
Gender dynamics can be critical to the success or failure of forest landscape restoration (FLR) efforts. Roles and relations dictated…
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In Cameroon, centring women in landscape restoration
Sustainable landscape management is a local and global necessity. Rising demand from growing populations and economies is putting increasing pressure…
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New strategies needed to uproot deep barriers to land, resource rights for women
From climate change to deforestation to biodiversity loss, global challenges are significantly worsened by barriers limiting land and resource rights…
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How qualitative data analysis can serve women’s resource rights in Ethiopia
“Working on gender issues requires the ability to understand questions such as ‘why’ and ‘how’,” said Stibniati Atmadja, a CIFOR-ICRAF…
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Nourishing leadership: Why gender matters in development science
As a food and nutrition scientist in CIFOR-ICRAF, Mulia Nurhasan leads the execution of the food and nutrition component of environmental…
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Empowering women through sustainable wildlife management: Meet Kim Spencer
When Kim Spencer, an Indigenous woman in Guyana’s isolated South Rupununi region, was 16 years old, she joined the South…
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Integrating local knowledge into policy is vital to sustainable livelihoods
Communities in southern Zambia rely on local knowledge to manage resources including land, forests and water. They are an example…
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