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“Field work: A privilege, but extra vigilance needed”
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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Sustainable development goals hinge on tapping women’s full potential
As we celebrate International Women’s Day 2024, we are reminded of how far we have come, almost 55 years after…
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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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Paving the way for a green and resilient Northern Cameroon
From wooded savannahs to the Sahel Desert, from the rocky mountains of Mokolo to the lowlands of the Adamawa Region,…
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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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In Colombia, working together for equitable land and resource access
There is increasing recognition that women’s land rights are a crucial factor in overcoming global social and environmental challenges. But…
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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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Leading women in sustainable wildlife management: Meet Lorrie Thomas
Waking at 3 am to monitor the beaches and paddling with her husband for water lilies and duckweed – favourite…
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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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Seeing from all sides: Why we need more women in science
Nining Liswanti is a researcher with CIFOR-ICRAF Indonesia. She has an undergraduate degree in forestry from the University of Gajah…
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