Cross-cutting Gender Research and Coordination

CROSS-CUTTING GENDER RESEARCH AND COORDINATION

Blog
May 22, 2019
Seeds of Change harvest: We need meaningful collaborations between economists and anthropologists and more – Elena Martinez (IFPRI)
Elena Martinez, Research Analyst at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), shares her impressions from the 'Seeds of Change' conference.
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Events
April 22, 2019
CGIAR Gender Platform: ‘Seeds of Change’ Annual Scientific Conference 2019
In April 2019, the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research organized its first jointly convened scientific conference: "Seeds of Change" in Canberra, Australia.
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Blog
April 2, 2019
Cash transfers and intimate partner violence
Cash transfers are a promising tool to reduce intimate partner violence, but can they be effective across diverse contexts and program design? In this blog, Melissa Hidrobo and Shalini Roy identify three policy-relevant knowledge gaps related to the potential of transfer programs to reduce IPV, then address them drawing on case studies from Ecuador, Bangladesh, and Mali.
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News
November 5, 2018
CGIAR Gender Platform: Annual scientific conference and capacity development workshop 2018
The CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research convened its 2nd Annual Scientific Conference and Capacity Development Workshop on Sept. 25-28, 2018 at ILRI in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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Publications
October 18, 2018
Discussion paper: What is the role of men in connecting women to cash crop markets? Evidence from Uganda
Programs that seek to increase women’s participation in marketing activities related to the principal household economic activity must involve men if they are to be successful. The new IFPRI Discussion Paper analyzes take-up of a project that sought to increase women’s involvement in sugarcane marketing and sales by encouraging the registration of a sugarcane block contract in the wife’s name.
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Blog
October 11, 2018
“Feminization of agriculture” call for proposals: Five projects selected
Watch this June 10, 2021 webinar presenting results of the projects The CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research announced five
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Blog
September 5, 2018
Call for proposals: ‘Feminization’ of agriculture: Building evidence to debunk myths on current challenges and opportunities
The CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research is calling for research proposals on the topic ‘Feminization’ of agriculture: Building evidence to debunk myths on current challenges and opportunities. Proposal submission deadline - September 17, 2018.
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Blog
June 11, 2018
Journal article: Women’s empowerment in agriculture and agricultural productivity
The new paper documents a positive relationship between maize productivity in western Kenya and women’s empowerment in agriculture, measured using indicators derived from the abbreviated version of the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index.
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Blog
May 4, 2018
Gender research in PIM: rural transformation, productivity, and women’s empowerment
In this video, Cheryl Doss, leader of our “Cross-cutting Gender Research and Coordination” flagship, talks about the three big issues the flagship is focusing on, and the team’s contribution to developing methods for collecting sex-disaggregated data for better gender analysis.
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