Livelihoods and gender
Gender inequality means that women and men often do not have equal access to the assets they need to pursue or sustain their livelihoods and those of their families. Policies, institutions and processes, both formal and informal, reinforce these gender inequalities. More...
Latest Documents
- Smallholder agriculture’s contribution to better nutrition
- S. Wiggins; S. Keats / Overseas Development Institute, 2013
- Commissioned by the UK Hunger Alliance for the June 2013 'Hunger Summit' this report asks "How can smallholder agriculture contribute to improving food security and reducing under-nutrition?" Potentially, smallholder agricultur...
- GenARDIS 2002-2010: Small grants that made big changes for women in agriculture
- Gender, Agriculture and Rural Development in the Information Society (GenARDIS), 2010
- What is being done to bridge the gender digital divide? Since 2002, the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) fund: Gender, Agriculture and Rural Development in the Information Society (GenARDIS) has offered small grants fo...
- The Global Gender Gap Report 2010
- R Hausmann; L Tyson; S Zahidi / World Economic Forum, 2010
- The Global Gender Gap Index was introduced by the World Economic Forum in 2006, as a framework for capturing and measuring gender based disparities and tracking their progress. It seeks to highlight those countries that are role model...
- Best practice for women's empowerment
- F. Flintan / International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (World Conservation Union), 2008
- It is often suggested that women in pastoral societies are marginalised and oppressed either through embedded patriarchal values or through outside influences such as development actors, whose monetary-focused economies and the target...
- Reviewing participatory mapping - what works and what doesn't
- J. Corbett / International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2009
- Participatory mapping, commonly used in participatory development, plays an important role in helping marginalised groups by making visible the association between land and local communities, highlighting important soci...
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