CGIAR GENDER Platform COVID-19 grants

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    Social reproduction: the sidelined aspect in gender and agricultural research
    (Journal Article, 2023-08-31) Kawarazuka, Nozomi; Hoa, P.T.; Huyen, L.T.T; Trang, B.; Achandi, Esther L.
    Introduction: This study explores women’s agribusiness by employing feminist theories to gain an understanding of the gender dimension of business beyond economic value, including non-material and non-market aspects associated with social reproduction. Methods: We conducted fieldwork between July and October 2021 in Vietnam through in-depth interviews with 16 women entrepreneurs in towns on the border with China, who engage in livestock-trading, and in the Central Highlands, who engage in domestic and international horticultural trade. Results: Our findings confirm that women entrepreneurs manage their business, family, and family relations together as one consolidated commitment in flexible, informal, and creative ways. Research focusing solely on economic analyses obscures not only women’s hidden labor and time in the household that enable men to dominate agribusiness, but also women’s resistance to male-privileged agribusiness. Discussion: Positioning social reproduction at the center of women’s economic activities enables researchers to have a full picture of how male-privileged agri-food systems are sustained, which is the first step towards disrupting existing inequalities in agri-food systems.
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    Gendered implications of COVID-19 on wastewater reuse agri-food value chains in Egypt: Current context and practical recommendations
    (Brief, 2022-03) International Water Management Institute
    The colonial legacy of irrigated agriculture in Egypt continues to reinforce food security and poverty. Marginalized tenant farmers along the tail end of Drain 7 in Kafr El Sheikh face challenges of polluted, unreliable irrigation water, low crop productivity, income and food insecurity, and poor health. Low value agriculture work is increasingly performed by marginalized women, whose work and time is undervalued and taken for granted. There is no one category of women gendered inequalities are cut across by class, age, education, health – as well as by family ownership of land, location of cultivated plots which determine access to clean or drainage water. Technical changes need to be accompanied by changes in deep-rooted gender-power disparities: women’s ownership of land, their effective engagement in water governance and management requires systemic, structural changes to cultures and practices of and masculinity. COVID19 has made visible the combined social and economic stresses of marginalized women, who struggle with unpaid domestic care work and increasing productive water reuse irrigation, the latter often with little to no social and economic gains.
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    Rewater MENA project and COVID-19 and Egypt’s Water Crisis project
    (Presentation, 2021-12-01) Lahham, Nisreen
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    Gender Mainstreaming Workshop: ReWater MENA Project & GENDER Project: COVID-19 and Egypt’s Water Crisis - Generating Evidence for Gender-Transformative Innovations
    (Report, 2021-12-01) International Water Management Institute; International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas; CGIAR GENDER Platform
    This research project is conducted by IWMI and ICARDA, in collaboration with the Egyptian Agricultural Research Center and the Arab Water Council and supported by CGIAR GENDER Platform. It is built upon the preliminary findings of ReWater MENA project in Kafr El-Sheikh in Egypt, asking the question, “What are the gendered implications of COVID-19 on wastewater reuse agri-food value chains in Egypt?” Informed by a feminist political ecology approach, the project analyses how intersectional inequalities by gender, class and other social identities determine poverty, landlessness and [waste]water access, use and control. With this understanding, the project documents the nature and scale of challenges, including social and cultural barriers experienced by marginalized women as wastewater reuse irrigators, producers and entrepreneurs.
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    Revealing the deeper forces impacting women’s lives after COVID-19
    (Blog Post, 2022-02-15) International Potato Center
    As the world emerges from the pandemic, agricultural researchers have begun training their lenses to understand how COVID-19 has affected the lives of women in agri-food systems in developing countries. To inform development initiatives and investments, having a proper and specific understanding of women’s experience is paramount. However, many feminist researchers express concern that the methods used in these investigations often miss the nuance if they focus heavily on capital or production and ignore reproduction or the specific ways that women experience changes in agriculture and their livelihoods due to the impacts of COVID-19. Against this backdrop, the CGIAR GENDER platform organized a webinar to share results and learning from exciting new research projects which focused on these important questions about impact and methods. 
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    Thời sự tối (06/02/2022)
    (Video, 2022-02-06) LamDong TV
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    Thời sự tối
    (Video, 2022-03-09) LamDong TV
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    Thời sự tối Lâm Đồng ngày
    (Video, 2022-01-17) LamDong TV
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    The Inception Workshop Report. Transforming the Rules of the Game: Gendered Liveability in Peri-urban Dhaka
    (Report, 2021-12) International Potato Center; Bangladesh Agricultural University
    The inception workshop on “Transforming the Rules of the Game: Gendered Liveability in Peri-urban Dhaka” was held on 20 December 2021 in Dhaka, Bangladesh, to introduce the key partners to this project, and to share ideas, knowledge, and experiences that could helpfully inform the execution of the research. Thirty-three people (50% women) participated in this workshop, including government officers, local and international NGO representatives, university staff and private sector employees from the garment industry. Collectively, this group represented expertise in many subjects such as nutrition, food systems, environment, and urban development. The participants shared some practical approaches towards improving the living environment and food/water/nutrition for poor residents in urban areas. This workshop highlighted the importance of cross-sectoral collaboration with diverse institutions to understand the government’s priorities and interests. This report outlines key points and messages including feedback from project partners. The links to key documents are also included in this report.
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    Impacts of Covid-19 remediation policies on gender equality and climate change in Son La and Thua Thien Hue provinces
    (Brief, 2021-11-30) Pham Thu Thuy; Trần, N.M.H.; Nguyễn Thị, V.A.; Nguyễn Thị, T.A.