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BY PAUL STASTNY With global stresses rising on food and agriculture from climate change, pandemic effects, conflicts, and other problems, what role can technology play in building more sustainable practices? This was one focus of a Feb. 2 panel discussion at ICTC Horizon—the two-day virtual summit of Canada’s Information and Communications Technology Council. A Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security panel, including Claudia

Women play a vital role in agriculture, especially in developing countries, but because technologies, practices and training are mainly designed by and delivered to men, they are less effective at enabling women to achieve their productive potential. Research and development professionals are working to overcome such gender biases, but they aren’t always sure how to best go about it, especially

As we celebrate International Women’s Day 2022 and pursue “gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow,” find out how three IWMI researchers are translating those words into action. The post In focus: Women making a difference in the world of water first appeared on International Water Management Institute (IWMI).

In the USAID Potato Program in Georgia, led by the International Potato Center (CIP), women are challenging norms and directing important scientific work that will improve food and nutrition security for all Georgians while boosting incomes for small farmers. Known in Georgia as “second bread,” potatoes are a staple of family diets throughout the country. However, for potato farmers, harvests

While Putin’s war in Ukraine is delivering shocks to the energy market and driving up fertilizer prices, the bigger problem has become the soaring cost of wheat. Russia is steering the world toward an increasingly severe food security crisis — compounding the shortages already caused by the pandemic and climate change. More than 70% of Ukraine is prime agricultural land

International Women’s Day 2022 The increased empowerment of rural women in Bangladesh over the past 10 years has been no accident. A decade ago, not even one in four rural women could be said to be “empowered” across five key metrics, a figure that surprised even those working on the ground with the country’s poorest. By 2015, this had risen

WorldFish’s ECOFISH project sought to ensure sustainable use of Bangladesh’s hilsa fisheries to ensure better socioeconomic outcomes for all The project sought to empower women as agents of… Read more

by Nicoline de Haan, CGIAR GENDER Platform director This op-ed was first published by the Thomson Reuters Foundation. — The $100 billion a year richer nations have promised to deliver in climate finance must be directed toward the worst impacted women, and men, in the most affected regions of the world. Households in Bangladesh, where women have equal participation in