The latest in gender, agriculture and development...
29 April, 2022
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"Though the United States granted women legal equality for property rights decades ago, women are still not not inheriting farmland as often as their male relatives.
“It is still not women who end up as owners or managers of the family farm,” wrote rural legal scholar Hannah Haksgaard of the University of South Dakota. “Rather it is their brothers or husbands who end up in control of the land.”
These imbalances may be a legacy from historical inequalities once supported by the law. Before 1969, women did not have equal inheritance rights if their parents died without a will. Farmland was often granted to a son, who was presumed to be more likely to farm it."
This first webinar of the 2022 Land Dialogues series brings forth reflections and discussions concerning this and other current events revolving around land rights. Rises in geopolitical tensions seen this year have left the world scrambling to find ways to wean itself off of a heavy reliance on Russian gas and the reality of a post-pandemic world. The worry amongst many in the climate change community is that, if not handled properly, the world’s response to the energy crisis will threaten the COP26 Glasgow Climate Pact and its subsequent global targets.
This Youth Forum would be an opportunity to feature the voice of the youth, their needs and encourage participants to create partnerships and share knowledge, expertise, technology in their respective countries. Collect input to validate the zero draft and support the work from the youth workstream ahead of the CFS negotiations.
"In the late 19th century, female educators in American high schools and colleges began forming teams for girls and women to play sports like softball and basketball, said Susan K. Cahn, a historian at the University at Buffalo and the author of a book on gender and sexuality in women’s sports.
They sought a space for female athletes to flourish, and wanted to avoid the corruption they saw growing in men’s sports, where gambling was becoming prevalent, she said.
Rules were modified so that women would “adhere to stricter social norms,” said Chris Beneke, a professor of history at Bentley University.
For example, in basketball, women and girls for years could not steal the ball, were divided into three sections on the court and had to stay in assigned areas.
The point was “to make sure there wasn’t too much contact and too much exertion,” Professor Beneke said. “There was a real concern that they would hurt their organs.”
Specifically, he said, their reproductive organs.
In the early 1900s, men began coaching and developing women’s sports teams as the public grew more interested."
Advancing Women in Agriculture through Research and Education (AWARE) is an initiative by the Department of Global Development in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University to engage a community focused on empowering women in agriculture. AWARE believes that empowering women as an underserved group holds the greatest potential to make significant impacts in agricultural development.
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