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How Women Bring Environmental, Social and Governance to Agriculture

Female farmers and female-led organizations work to increase crop yield and educate farmers across Africa and the Middle East. They use ESG to improve crop yield quality and provide female...

Jane Marsh

Mar 24, 2023
Gender
A woman in Senegal examines crops.

Businesswomen Lead Development of Safe, Nutritious Food Systems in Senegal

According to a partner, BD4FS trainings allowed SMEs to discover new ways of operating efficient tools for the management of food safety in businesses and at home and provided knowledge...
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Feed the Future Business Drivers for Food Safety (BD4FS)

Mar 23, 2023
Food Safety Markets and Trade Gender
Women farmers in the field.

Not Just Farmers’ Wives: Overcoming Stereotypes of Women in Agriculture

Are women in agriculture destined to remain “the farmer’s wife” and never farmers in their own right, even if they do most of the agricultural work?

CABI: Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International

Mar 23, 2023
Agricultural Productivity Gender Policy and Governance Resilience
An Ethiopian girl happily drinks clean water. Photo credit: UNICEF

Partnerships and Cooperation Pivotal for Realizing Water and Sanitation for All!

Billions of people are still living without safely managed water and sanitation. This World Water Day, IWMI reaffirms its commitment to continue building partnerships and enhancing cooperation for safe water...

Yonas Tafesse Qoricho

Mar 23, 2023
Climate and Natural Resources Gender Nutrition Resilience
A mother holder her baby as the woman picks leafy vegetables. Photo by Sarah Doyle.

Can Neglected and Underutilized Species Provide a Pathway to Women’s Empowerment?

Neglected and Underutilized Species (NUS) are often celebrated for their potential to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment. However, narratives about women and NUS are often overly simplistic.
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Marlène Elias

Mar 23, 2023
Agricultural Productivity Gender Nutrition Resilience
Women sit on the ground while harvesting litchi.

How Can Gender Research and Evidence Influence Policies to Empower Women?

Women can be empowered through evidence-based policies, which is possible through thoughtful projects that yield desired data for targeted, impactful interventions.

Mahesh Chander

Mar 21, 2023
Climate and Natural Resources Education and Extension Gender Policy and Governance Resilience
A female poultry farmer holds a chicken in Kiambu County, Kenya.

Roles of Women, Men and Youth in Ensuring Food Safety on Kenyan Poultry Farms

A new study highlights the significant role played by women and youth in small-scale poultry production in Kenya and identifies key activities to increase their success in reducing foodborne illness.
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Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Safety

Mar 20, 2023
Food Safety Gender
A training facilitator demonstrates how to make fish-frying batter. (Photos by Bright Okolo, Bright Media)

Fish Processors in Nigeria Apply New Skills From Training to Improve Their Products and Businesses

A Fish Innovation Lab activity led a training during December 2022 to further fish processors' skills in Nigeria to become more profitable and provide Nigerians with nutritious fish.
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Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Fish

Mar 16, 2023
Food Safety Gender Nutrition Youth
Women gather in a circle at one of the nutrition-sensitive agriculture trainings. Credit: JSI

Women’s Empowerment: An Essential Ingredient for Improved Nutrition in India

Findings from human-centered design formative research on agriculture and diet behaviors.

USAID Advancing Nutrition

Mar 16, 2023
Agricultural Productivity Gender Nutrition
Children in a Peri Urban Region of Karnataka State in India

Funding Opportunity: Enhancing Local Achievements in Nutrition Excellence (ELAINE)

The objective of this new award is to advance local implementation of high-quality programs and policies to improve the nutritional status of women and children.

Agrilinks Team

Mar 15, 2023
Gender Youth Opportunities

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Strengthening Livestock Systems through Climate-Smart and Gender-Sensitive Approaches

Jan 18, 2023 online
An event on Feed the Future efforts to strengthen animal feed, fodder and forage production and feeding approaches as a major solution for the climate crisis and women’s empowerment.
Climate and Natural Resources Gender
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Farming under the Rainbow: LGBTQI+ Inclusive Development in Agriculture Programs in Honduras and Central America

Sep 28, 2022 online
Join the webinar to learn about important considerations and promising practices for advancing LGBTQI+ inclusive development in agriculture and food security programming.
Agricultural Productivity Gender Policy and Governance Youth
A woman counsels a survivor of gender-based violence.
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Addressing Gender-Based Violence in Agriculture and Market Systems Development

Jul 14, 2022 online
Introducing the Toolkit to Address Gender-based Violence in Agriculture and Market Systems Development to provide practical, how-to guidance for agriculture.
Gender
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Using Digital Finance to Promote Women’s Economic Empowerment in Agriculture

Mar 30, 2022 online
Learn about promoting women’s economic empowerment in agriculture using digital financial services.
Gender
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Women’s Empowerment in Beyond-Production Activities

Mar 31, 2021 online
Women engage in a variety of agricultural roles across the value chain. Many approaches, promising practices, and tools to support women’s empowerment in production have emerged in recent years. However...
Markets and Trade Gender
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Why Inclusion Matters: Featuring Voices from the Field

Jul 29, 2020 online
Inclusive Development Month on Agrilinks is wrapping up with with a webinar that will report on the most recent evidence on what inclusion means across varying contexts, why inclusion is so important to reaching our goals of reducing hunger and poverty, and hearing voices from the field regarding their own experiences on why inclusion matters.
Gender Policy and Governance Youth
Hapsatour cares for her sheep
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Webinar: What’s lurking in your value chain? Uncovering the hidden costs of gender-based violence in agriculture

Oct 30, 2019 online
Please join Agrilinks and the Feed the Future Advancing Women’s Empowerment Program on the eve of Halloween for a webinar on gender dimensions in agriculture. This webinar will explore the...
Gender
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Overcoming Gender Barriers to Accessing and Using Climate Information Services

Apr 25, 2018 online
Women play a unique role guaranteeing household food security and building resilience to shocks and stresses. While discussions at the intersection of gender equity/social inclusion and resilience often focus on...
Agricultural Productivity Climate and Natural Resources Gender Resilience
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Can Small-Scale Irrigation Empower Women?

Oct 31, 2017 online
Can small-scale irrigation empower women? This is one of the critical questions that the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Small-Scale Irrigation (ILSSI), led by Texas A&M University, has been...
Agricultural Productivity Climate and Natural Resources Gender
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Your Input is Requested: The new Global Food Security Strategy Indicators

Jun 15, 2017 to Jun 30, 2017 online
See final list of GFSS indicators submitted to the U.S. Congress in October 2017. [Note: Now that the indicators have been sent to Congress, the other documents and links on...
Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Agricultural Productivity Food Safety Markets and Trade Gender Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning

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Into, Through and Beyond USAID Programs: Lessons from the Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index

Mar 29, 2023 United States online

Illustrating Insights: Evidence-Based Recommendations for Gender and Youth Integration

Mar 28, 2023 United States online

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