Today around the world, we celebrate International Women’s Day (IWD) to note the achievements and contributions of women but also to remember the durable challenges to gender equality that continue to hamper our progress for a more just society and sustainable planet. At CIP, among many things, we focus on sustainability of systems to produce sufficient food and nutrition for
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
This post was first published as part of GFAR’s partners in action campaign. — The participation of both women and men is critical for productive, climate-resilient food systems. Yet, women face many more barriers than men. Gender inequality is endemic within natural resource management and agricultural systems, where girls and women have less control over resources, access to services and
Despite well-intentioned policies and economic growth over the last decade, major inequalities persist within many low- and middle-income countries. Approximately 3 billion people cannot afford a healthy diet, and poor and disadvantaged people face heightened risks from food and nutrition insecurity and inadequate access to clean water and sanitation. Rising poverty, rapid urbanization, and political conflicts continue to exacerbate systemic
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