Call for Articles - Gender equity in agricultural research
GFAR is seeking many new ways to spread the value of agricultural research and innovation of all kinds and how they are helping to address development challenges. GFAR has established a collaboration with New Agriculturist a widely read and well recognized online journal, to help share your stories about how agricultural knowledge and innovation are helping to address major development challenges and make a real difference in the lives of the poor.
Through publication in New Agriculturist we can help you to raise wider awareness of your work and share your knowledge with thousands of readers. GFAR is particularly interested in stories that show how you are delivering against processes transforming and strengthening agricultural research for development systems as highlighted in the GCARD Roadmap and how your work is helping achieve developmental change in increasing environmental resilience, in benefiting people’s lives and livelihoods or enhancing food and nutrition security, whether by improving foresight and prioritization, improving partnership, enhancing capacities, increasing investments, or by better linking research and innovation into development processes.
GFAR is contributing 3 articles in each edition. These articles will be displayed on the front page of New Agriculturist. The previous editions with the GFAR sections are available here.
The topic for the next edition is "Gender equity in agricultural research - women in research & research for women" and GFAR is seeking stories and projects from around the world on the theme, whether at local, national, regional or international scale.
GFAR welcomes your contributed articles, which must be received by the 16 December 2013. The guidelines for writing up the articles in terms of content are:
Show how people put the GCARD RoadMap principles into practice:
- Background – what was the drive behind the new development
- Description of how the new development works and how it is changing real lives
- Hurdles and challenges that were overcome
- Comments and experiences of ‘developers’ and users
- Limitations/constraints/future challenges
- Responses from relevant/significant bodies (e.g. partner organizations)
- What next in terms of development? What lessons have been learnt/can be transferred elsewhere?
Article length is 750- 850 words. Please note, longer article will not be considered.
Please send articles rather than research type papers as the former are more likely to be selected. To get more idea of the style expected please visit the previous edition.
All articles received will be submitted to New Agriculturist for their consideration and selection.
GFAR invite you to identify and share stories on the topic and help reach beyond GFAR`s community.
Please send the articles to the following E-mail address: [email protected]
Consultations
Quel est le rôle des relations sociales et de leurs réseaux dans la sécurité alimentaire et la nutrition des ménages?
La capacité d’accéder à et de consommer des aliments nutritifs est, dans une certaine mesure, le résultat de l'appartenance et de relations avec d’autres membres de la société. C'est particulièrement vrai en temps de crise. Cette discussion va se centrer sur le rôle des relations et des réseaux sociaux dans la sécurité alimentaire et la nutrition afin de détecter et d'analyser les cas de succès, les enjeux et la voie à suivre pour parvenir à la sécurité alimentaire et nutritionnelle.
CFS side event - Transforming food systems: empowering women to deliver on Food Security and Nutrition
The Gender in Agriculture Partnership (GAP) is organizing a side event on “Transforming food systems: empowering women to deliver on Food Security and Nutrition” in the context of the CFS 40 on Thursday October 10th, 2013 between 12:30 and 14:00.
Venue: FAO Red Room
The event will discuss:
- The evidence showing how women’s and girls’ empowerment delivers on these outcomes
- The costs of failing to invest in women's roles in high-nutrient-value food chains and of ignoring women's triple work burden (household, reproductive and market)
- The enabling environment - policies, rights, laws and incentives to empower women in food systems to deliver food security and nutrition
Prof. MS Swaminathan, Chair of the HLPE of the CFS, and also a GAP Patron will chair the side event and HE Mary Mubi, Ambassador of the Republic of Zimbabwe and Co-Chair of the Women’s Network of Ambassadors to FAO will make remarks.
Panelists include:
Lynn Brown, Senior Economist, World Bank/GenRD and SecureNutrition
Susan Carlson, Women’s Committee Facilitator, World Farmers’ Organization (WFO)
Susan Kaaria, Senior Gender Officer (Policy), Gender, Equity and Rural Employment Division, FAO
Stanlake Samkange, Director, Policy, Programme and Innovation Division, WFP
Consultations
Méthodes indigènes de préparation des aliments: quel est leur impact sur la sécurité alimentaire et la nutrition?
Plusieurs communautés utilisent des méthodes indigènes pour la préparation des aliments. Chaque type de préparation peut avoir plusieurs conséquences au niveau de la configuration socio-économique du ménage. Pouvons-nous considérer les méthodes indigènes de préparation des aliments comme une option viable pour parvenir à la sécurité alimentaire et à la nutrition dans les communautés rurales pauvres?
Rapports et notes de synthèse
Gender and Agriculture: Inefficiencies, Segregation, and Low Productivity Traps
Women make essential contributions to agriculture in developing countries, where they constitute approximately 43 percent of the agricultural labor force. However, female farmers typically have lower output per unit of land and are much less likely to be active in commercial farming than their male...
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Rapports et notes de synthèse
Final study of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee on rural women and the right to food
The present study examines the right to food of rural women by underlining the international legal framework applicable to rural women, analysing the patterns of discrimination harming them, proposing strategies and policies for their legal protection and emphasizing good practices. The study has a...
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Compte-rendu des activités
Using online platforms to increase access to open data and share best practices of monitoring women’s land rights
Given the rapid expansion of the internet and the increasing number of users, including in the global South, the full potential of online platforms for promoting inclusive consultation of issues of high global interest is certainly not yet realised. An online discussion is being organised to share...
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Online Discussion from 6-20 February: Connecting people, sharing knowledge and increasing transparency. Using online platforms to increase access to open data, share best practices for monitoring women's land rights
Given the rapid expansion of the internet and the increasing number of users, including in the global South, the full potential of online platforms for promoting inclusive consultation of issues of high global interest is certainly not yet realised. An online discussion was organised to share views and perspectives on how online platforms could be used more creatively and effectively to share experiences on a key area where information and lessons learned through various interventions from around the world are generally dispersed, that is the area of monitoring women’s land rights.
The objective of the online discussion was twofold: (a) engage a collective reflection on ways of optimising the use of online platforms in efforts to promote equitable and sustainable natural governance and social justice; and, (b) to share experiences on approaches to monitoring women’s land rights.
The discussion was running simultaneously on landportal.info and across the following five platforms:
- Wikigender (http://www.wikigender.org/index.php/New_Home);
- E-agriculture (http://www.e-agriculture.org);
- AIMS (http://aims.fao.org);
- FSN-Forum (http://www.fao.org/fsnforum);
- Open-Development list (http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-development).
This discussion will be facilitated by the International Land Coalitions (ILC) (www.landcoalition.org) Women’s Land Rights team.
Rapports et notes de synthèse
On the origins of gender roles: Women and the plough
This paper seeks to better understand the historic origins of current differences in norms and beliefs about the appropriate role of women in society. We test the hypothesis that traditional agricultural practices influenced the historic gender division of labor and the evolution and persistence of...
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Consultations
Women in agriculture and food security: How can we turn rhetoric into reality?
Ce débat en ligne a pour but d’enrichir la discussion qui sera stimulée par le lancement officiel le 7 mars de la publication phare de la FAO Situation mondiale de l’alimentation et de l’agriculture (SOFA) 2010-11 sur le thème Women in agriculture: closing the gender gap for development et la célébration par la FAO de la Journée internationale de la femme le 8 mars, qui abordera également ce thème.