In mid January, AWARD excitedly announced its first call for the 2010 AWARD Fellowships to fast track the careers of African women scientists in the NARS, higher education research and education institutions, the NGO community and private sector institutions who are in professions that serve agricultural research and development, especially for pro-poor innovation
Mar 01, 2010 - Mar 12, 2010
In March 2010, the CSW will undertake a fifteen-year review of the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcomes of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly.
Jan 18, 2010 - Jan 19, 2010
Regions from the five continents, States, financial backers, international organisations, civil society and international experts are taking action to improve the world food situation. Register Now!
BANGKOK, 13 October 2009 (IRIN) - Women are being excluded from the debate over climate change, despite being most at risk, and governments should do more to ensure their situations and views are represented, campaigners and experts say.
A draft version of the REDD+ Social & Environmental Standards is available in English, Spanish and French and comments are invited until 30 November 2009.
UNDP Administrator Receives MDG3 Torch and Commits to Focus on Gender and Climate Change
UN Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator Helen Clark received a torch symbol of the Millennium Development Goal on gender equality and women empowerment (MDG3).
The IUFRO unit "Education, gender and forestry" will organise a conference on gender education at UBC1, Vancouver, cosponsored by Faculty of Forestry of UBC, the Centre for Women's and Gender Studies at UBC and the Leuphana University of Lueneburg, Germany. It will take place from September 6th -9th 2009
UNIFEM’s biennial flagship report ‘Progress of the World’s Women 2008/2009: Who Answers to Women? Gender & Accountability’shows that realising women’s rights and achieving the Millennium Development Goals depends on strengthening accountability for commitments to women and gender equality.
20 November 2008 – Without gender equality Africa will be unable to achieve lasting development as it confronts the recent food, financial and energy crises, according to speakers at United Nations-backed conference now underway in Addis Ababa.
‘Innovation by, with and for farmers in Africa is one of the major contemporary challenges of development. This book will be essential reading for anyone interested in these issues.’Professor Ian Scoones, Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, UK
