Category: Gender
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Gender Data: Getting It Right
Above: Deborah Rubin, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Agnes Quisumbing, Terri Raney at IFPRI I am guilty of having quoted the line – “African women farmers grow 80% of the food while owning only 1% of the land. It turns out that neither of those numbers is backed up by any evidence — and, in fact, the lack…
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State of World Population 2013
The 2013 report from UNFPA focuses on preventing adolescent pregnancy. Not unlike our own experience, it underscores the closely interlinked underlying conditions that must be addressed to achieve this: Child marriage, Gender inequality, Obstacles to human rights, Poverty, Sexual violence and coercion 19%, National policies restricting access to contraception, age-appropriate sexuality education, Lack of access to education and reproductive health services, and underinvestment in…
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Gender Gap 2013 Report
The World Economic Forum has published their latest Gender Gap Report which can be downloaded from here. It shows some surprising results for THP program countries – Malawi and Mozambique, for example, have the highest rates of female labor force participation in the world. The report also shows how countries are progress since 2006. I’ve…
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2012 Top Ten Trends in Ending Hunger and Poverty
This year saw a continuation and expansion of many of the positive trends in the 2011 list: civil society consultation, gender mainstreaming, transparency, small farmer empowerment. And it saw new initiatives to fill gaps in achieving the MDGs. Yet we also witnessed pushback: organized threats to women’s human rights and civil society that remind us…