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Amidst increasing evidence of climate change’s impact on women and recognizing its pivotal role in driving change and adaptation, policymakers and practitioners are concerned about improving women’s resilience to climate change, engaging them in mitigation and adaptation solutions. This is geared towards ensuring their voices are heard in climate policy debates. On November 7, CGIAR Gender Equality Research Initiative, HER+,

When: Dec 04, 2023, 09:30 – 10:30 (+04) Where: Food and Agriculture Pavilion Women and men have different levels of vulnerability to climate change, given existing gendered roles and norms. Considering women’s relatively lower adaptive capacity, they are also often less likely to take up climate-smart practices in agrifood systems or influence adaptation decisions. These limitations contribute to differential well-being outcomes

Launch Event: Guidelines for measuring gender transformative change in the context of food security, nutrition and sustainable agriculture. The “Guidelines for measuring gender transformative change in food security, nutrition and sustainable agriculture” were developed by the Joint Programme on Gender Transformative Approaches for Food Security and Nutrition (JP GTA)and the CGIAR GENDER Impact Platform with the aim of enhancing

Sparking gender transformative change: Rome-based Agencies and CGIAR share experiences. 20 OCTOBER 2023 During the launch of the ‘Guidelines for measuring gender transformative change in the context of food security, nutrition and sustainable agriculture’, a dialogue panel between a representative of the Rome-based Agencies and one from the ONE CGIAR system focused on the opportunities and challenges of assessing normative constraints to

Are you interested in the role of climate adaptation to tackle poverty and promote gender equality? Join our upcoming webinar to explore the transformative potential of these critical intersections. 🗓️ Date: Thursday, 19th October 2023 🕓 Time: 16:00 – 17:00 CET Climate adaptation isn’t just about protecting the environment; it’s a key tool for building a more equitable world. This

The introduction of technical and technological innovations within agri-food systems (AFSs) has brought about significant changes in human welfare and elevated farmers’ resilience to climate-related shocks. Nonetheless, the substantial increase in population, coupled with the negative spillovers of these innovations on climate, public health, nutrition, and social equity, is rendering a considerable number of AFSs unsustainable. Recent research indicates that

In the recently concluded 2023 Development Studies Association (DSA) annual conference, IITA Post-Doctoral Fellow (Gender Research), Olajumoke Adeyeye, presented some of the CGIAR Harnessing Gender and Social Equality for Resilience in Agrifood Systems (HER+) Initiative preliminary findings on restrictive gender norms that limit women’s capacities to building economic resilience to climate change (CC) challenges in Nigeria. The conference provides a platform to share the research outcome with experts

HER+ Gender Equality initiative and partners are working on four areas of gender inequalities in the agri-food system: access to resources, women’s agency, social norms, policies, and governance. The work on these four areas is divided into four work packages, and this workshop is part of Work Package 2, which aims to achieve climate resilience by strengthening gender equality and