The latest in gender, agriculture and development...
13 May, 2022
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"The Deputy Secretary-General said that despite that women spend 200 million hours each day collecting water, and even more tending the land, they still lack access to land rights and finance.
“Eliminating those barriers and empowering women and girls as landowners and partners is a game-changer for land restoration, for the 2030 Agenda, and for the African Union’s Agenda 2063”, she said underlining their central role in building a land restoration economy."
Over the last three years the Land Portal Foundation has collaborated with Global Data Barometer and Open Data Charter to embed land issues within key open data activities. These partnerships aim to deliver tools needed to understand and strengthen national land information ecosystems, and ultimately enable a more open state wherein accessible information and responsible re-use of data can create positive change.
This webinar will present the land module in the Global Data Barometer, the Land Portal Foundation’s State of Land Information approach, and the Open Up Guide on Land Governance. The event will be an opportunity to explore and discuss how all of these elements fit together to create open and transparent land information ecosystems that contribute to open governance.
This forum will introduce 10 new technologies developed and tested by scientists and are ready to be adopted and deployed by enterprises active in the agricultural sector. We have selected these 10 technologies for their ability to offer a good return on investment for the private sector.
We will give you an overview of what these technologies can do for your business in short videos and technology pitches: a one-page description of the technologies. After this fast-paced introduction to the technologies, we will have an open discussion with the scientists who can give you more details and answer your questions about the technologies.
ILRI seeks to recruit a Gender Quantitative Scientist to help the ILRI gender team strengthen and expand their work with the Women’s Empowerment in the Livestock Index (WELI) and Women’s Empowerment in Livestock Business Index (WELBI) and other quantitative analysis.
"Thousands of women in Mexico have spent Mother’s Day marching in the nation’s sprawling capital, chanting and carrying pictures of their missing relatives, to demand accountability amid a worsening surge in violence.
“Where are they, where are they? Our children, where are they?” the women shouted on Tuesday as they demonstrated with supporters along Mexico City’s main avenue under the banner, “March for National Dignity”.
According to the United Nations, more than 95,000 people in Mexico were officially registered as disappeared as of November 26, 2021, while the National Register of Disappeared Persons says 8,000 new cases were reported annually over the past five years.
Relatives of Mexico’s disappeared march every year, but this year, they were joined by a caravan of Central American mothers searching for loved ones who went missing while on their journey to the United States."
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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