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A market systems approach tackle issues create social inclusion across farming communities, empowering marginalised groups like women.

Africa & Middle East: Gender and agricultural experts at Practical Action lay out how market systems can create social inclusion across farming communities.

Women's associations were empowered through the SERVIR West Africa (SERVIR WA) program to combat land degradation

Case Study: Climate, Environment, Gender

Empowering Women’s Associations to Combat Land Degradation and Achieve Carbon Market Success

The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)

Africa & Middle East: Women's associations in Burkina Faso are being empowered to tackle land degradation through an accessible geoportal platform.

Blessing Andrew providing animal health services to livestock

Case Study: Gender

Bridging the Gender Gap in Animal Health Services

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Africa & Middle East: Through FAO-supported training, Blessing Andrew, a veterinary health worker in Nigeria, is bridging the gender gap in animal health services.

Case Study: Gender, Market Access

Women Agripreneurs Need Gender-Responsive Interventions

Swati Mantri & Bhumika TV

Global: Promoting women’s engagement in agribusiness can be an important factor in their empowerment. Learn how from a new CGIAR Gender Impact Platform evidence explainer.

Opinion: Food Security & Nutrition, Gender

Why Africa’s Livestock Intensification Cannot Leave Women Behind

Zoe Campbell, Lamyaa Al-Riyami & Katharine Tjasink

Africa & Middle East: GALVMed experts highlight initiatives to ensure gender-equitable livestock intensification for women livestock keepers.

Land tenure empowers women smallholder farmers

Case Study: Gender

Tenure Security Can Empower Women Farmers and Increase Food Security

Maja Schling

Latin America & the Caribbean: Increased tenure security for women farmers can lead to more diversified crop production and better food security, according to new research.

Rural woman holding net and looking at the camera

Opinion: Climate, Gender

How the Climate Crisis Affects Rural Women: A Conversation with Lauren Phillips

Lauren Philips & Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Global: Lauren Phillips, FAO’s Rural Transformation and Gender Equality Division, explains how the climate crisis impact women differently than men.

CABI training on potato value chains in Pakistan

Case Study: Gender

Strengthening Potato Value Chains in Pakistan by Breaking Gender Stereotypes

Umair Safdar

Asia: A CABI-led project is changing women’s role in agriculture by helping them build technical knowledge and skills in potato value chains.

Opinion: Food Security & Nutrition, Gender

Resilient Food Systems and the Power of Diversity: A Conversation with Elisabetta Recine

Elisabetta Recine

Latin America & the Caribbean: CONSEA's president Elisabetta Recine shares insights into the challenges and the power of participation in building resilient food systems.

Case Study: Food Security & Nutrition, Gender

Women Farmers in Tanzania Work in Unity to Grow Vegetables

Farm Africa

Africa & Middle East: The Juhudi women farmers from Tanzania established a community garden to grow tomatoes and green vegetables with help from Farm Africa.

Rice farmer, Jerry Tjoe Awie and Beri Bonglim Tambam at Santigron, the second multiplication site of the BOLD project in Suriname.

Opinion: Climate, Food Security & Nutrition, Gender

Saving Every Grain of Rice: A Conversation with Jerry Tjoe Awie

Crop Trust

Latin America & the Caribbean: Jerry Tjoe Awie, a rice breeder in Suriname, unpacks the climate challenges rice farmers face and the potential of gene banks in the region.

Case Study: Gender

Climate Smart Agriculture Interventions Must Be Gender-Responsive

Ranjitha Puskur & Ashrita Saran

Africa & Middle East: Increasing women's participation in climate smart agriculture requires inclusion in decision-making and equal access to resources, research shows.

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