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Gender, livestock rearing, rangeland use, and climate change adaptation in Tunisia
Women’s contributions to rangeland cultivation and management in Tunisia, and the effects of climate change upon women’s livelihoods, are both policy blind spots. Despite women’s growing participation in rangeland management, ...
Women, Irrigation and Social Norms in Egypt
New research from Egypt demonstrates that women play a far more active role in irrigation than previously thought. Yet women’s contributions to irrigation remain poorly understood and undervalued, limiting their access to ...
Making Egyptian women’s agricultural labor visible and improving their access to productive assets
In rural Egypt, social norms frame women as “helpers” to their families and husbands instead of as workers in their own right. Women are assumed not to contribute to agriculture or participate in irrigation. However, a ...
Use of Conservation Agriculture in Crop-Livestock Systems (CLCA) in the Drylands for Enhanced Water Use Efficiency, Soil Fertility and Productivity in NEN and LAC Countries – Progress Highlights: Year (3) - April 2020 to March 2021
The brief highlights the most important achievements of the IFAD funded CLCA Project in North Africa (Tunisia, Algeria) and LAC (Mexico & Bolivia) countries during its third year (April 2020 – March 2021). The brief presents ...
COVID-19 الإرشاد الرقمي المرُاعي للجنسين في تونس أثناء جائحة
يمثل تحديًا أدى إلى تجديد الإهتمام بخدمات COVID 19 كان تزويد المزارعين بالمعلومات الزراعية الأساسية والتدريب في فترة
الإرشاد الرقمي. ومع ذلك، هناك فجوة واضحة بين الجنسين، بين وصول الرجال والنساء إلى تكنولوجيا ...
Gender-responsive digital extension in Tunisia during the COVID-19 pandemic
Providing farmers with essential agricultural information and training in the era of COVID-19 has been a challenge that has prompted a renewed interest in digital extension services. There is a distinct gender gap however, ...
Priorities for Research on Gender Equality, Climate Change, and Agriculture in the MENA Region: A Policy Brief
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is
extremely vulnerable to climate change and is also the
most gender unequal region in the world. According to the
Global Gender Gap report, the gender gap is highest in ...
جعل العمالة الزراعية للمرأة المصرية واضحة وتحسين وصولها إلى الأصول الإنتاجية
ُفي المناطق الريفية في مصر، تؤطر الأعراف الاجتماعية النساء “كمساعدات” لأسرهن وأزواجهن بدلاً من كونهن عاملات بحد ذاتهن. يفترض بالنساء عدم المساهمة في الزراعة أو المشاركة في الري. ومع ذلك، فقد تحدثت سلسلة من الدراسات الحديثة ...
الجنسانية، تربية الماشية، استخدام المراعي والتكيف مع تغير المناخ في تونس
إن كلا من المساهمات النسائية في زراعة المراعي وإدارتها في تونس، وتأثيرات
تغير المناخ على سبل عيشهن، ما هي إلا نقاط سياسات متعامى عنها. على الرغم
من ...
Gendered Inequity in Wages and Working Conditions for Landless Agricultural Labourers in Morocco.
Women increasingly perform the majority of agricultural work in the Global South, including the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, yet research on the gendered dynamics of agricultural wage labour in MENA areas ...