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Weathering the Storm or Storming the Norms: Can Climate-Smart Agriculture Produce Gender Equality?
Mar 6, 2020
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Sophia Huyer, Samuel Partey, and Bruce Campbell
As Nitya Rao and colleagues show, a lot is known about the effects of climate change on women. Most research focuses on women’s vulnerability as a result…
Making Gender Equality Integral to Global Agricultural Research
Mar 6, 2020
Our food systems face unprecedented challenges, from increasingly unpredictable weather to acute biodiversity loss. To feed a population of over 9.6 billion people in 2050, the…
Women Ally with Nature to Adapt to Climate Change
Mar 6, 2020
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Gabriela Flores
Nature-based solutions to the global environment crisis are increasingly in the spotlight. High-profile individuals such as campaigner Greta Thunberg and actor Leonardo DiCaprio, as well as business and governments, have all emphasised…
Climate Change Worsening Violence Against Women
Mar 6, 2020
Climate change disproportionately affects women. In the United States, women have their pregnancies affected by climate change and according to Climate Reality, there’s evidence of how climate change is…
Five Ways Gender Equity Can Help Save the Planet
Mar 6, 2020
Around the world, women are pulling above their weight to sustain communities despite barriers in access to nearly everything: education, information, paid work, credit, lands,…
International Women's Day 2020: Women, War and Water in Yemen
Mar 6, 2020
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Leonie Nimmo
On International Women’s Day 2018 the UN Envoy to Yemen received an open letter calling on him to take a firm stand on women’s demands and to…
Bangladesh: The Women Fighting Climate Change in Bangladesh
Mar 6, 2020
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Marigold Warner, British Journal of Photography
In disaster-prone areas like Barishal, a major city that lies on the bank of Kirtankhola river in Bangladesh, life for women is a constant struggle.…
Colombia: Where Indigenous Women Take Lead on Land Rights, Communities Thrive
Mar 6, 2020
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Andrew J. Wight
MEDELLIN, COLOMBIA – Across the globe, women are on the front lines of protecting traditional and Indigenous land from threats like mining, ranching, and a…
Climate Change Hits Women Hardest, Report Finds
Mar 6, 2020
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Sarah Mac Donald
Women are disproportionately hurt by climate change and corporate human rights violations throughout the world, according to a new study by Trócaire, the aid and development…
Ethiopia: Trouble as Trump Dives into the Dispute over Ethiopia's Nile Mega-Dam
Mar 6, 2020
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Benita van Eyssen, Deutsche Welle
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is a massive hydroelectric power plant being constructed on the Blue Nile in Ethiopia. In mid-January, Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan reached…
Why Climate Change Disproportionately Affects Women
Mar 5, 2020
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Joe McCarthy
Climate change is a planetary phenomenon that will impact all countries, but its effects are being shaped by pervasive and entrenched gender inequality.
Heat waves, droughts, rising…
Eliminate Legal Discrimination Against Women to Advance Food Security and Nutrition
Mar 5, 2020
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Ilaria Bottigliero and Françoise Trine
In societies where there is a high degree of gender inequality, there is also a significantly higher proportion of undernourishment among women and girls.
In order to effectively…
Hidden in Plain Sight: Women and Girls in Internal Displacement
Mar 5, 2020
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Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
More than half of the 41 million people worldwide living in internal displacement at the end of 2018 were women and girls. They experience displacement…
Afghanistan: The Afghan Scorpion Farmer Harvesting Valuable Venom for International Buyers
Mar 5, 2020
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Kern Hendricks, National
Scorpion venom is highly prized among medical researchers. “Not all the venom components of scorpions are dangerous to humans, and there are actually many components…
Revisiting Conflict Minerals Compliance - Developments, Trends and Action Items for the Current Reporting Year
Mar 4, 2020
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Michael R. Littenberg, Anne-Marie L. Beliveau, and Nellie V. Binder
The EU Conflict Minerals Regulation takes effect on January 1, 2021. The EU Regulation generally will require importers of tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold (“3TG”…
In Eastern Myanmar, the Karen Watch over a Revolutionary Forest
Mar 4, 2020
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Benjamin D. Hodgdon
For more than 70 years, since shortly after the country formerly known as Burma gained independence, a low-boil insurgency has fought for Karen self-determination, promised…
Iraq: As Oil Prices Fall, How Will Iraq Pay the Bills?
Mar 4, 2020
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Agence France-Presse
As crude prices plunge, Iraq's oil sector is facing a triple threat that has slashed revenues, risks denting production, and may spell trouble for future…
Liberia: Resolution Underway in Boniken-Weleken Land Dispute
Mar 4, 2020
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New Dawn
A team of local authorities headed by County Superintendent, George A. Prowd have instituted measures aimed at restoring peace over a disputed farmland between Boniken…
Climate Change: Report Warns of Climate Change Induced Global Security Risks
Mar 3, 2020
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Leila Mead, International Institute for Sustainable Development
National security, military and intelligence experts are warning of high to catastrophic threats to security at different warming scenarios, and urging a rapid reduction and phasing…
Conflict Minerals: Civil Society Calls for Transparency about Companies Subjected to the EU Regulation on 3TG Conflict Minerals
Mar 3, 2020
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Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations
EU member states seem to be adopting a loose interpretation of the text of the Regulation on the responsible sourcing of minerals from conflict-affected and…
Conflict Minerals: UN General Assembly Highlights Importance of Regime to Curb Conflict Diamonds
Mar 3, 2020
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Xinhua
The UN General Assembly on Tuesday adopted a resolution that acknowledges the successful role that the Kimberley Process, a mechanism aimed to prevent "conflict diamonds"…
South Sudan: UN: South Sudan’s Oil Patch Is Living on Borrowed Time
Mar 3, 2020
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Tsvetana Paraskova, OilPrice.com
South Sudan continues to spend oil revenues in advance and its oil sector continues to lack transparency, according to a UN report that was made…
Myanmar: Myanmar Govt Faces Setbacks in Enforcing Compliance with EITI Database
Mar 3, 2020
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John Liu and Thompson Chau, Myanmar Times
Myanmar’s Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) unit, a government body under the finance ministry, held a press conference on February 28 to address criticisms over…
Environmental Mainstreaming at the 23rd National Mine Action Directors and UN Advisers Meetings
Mar 3, 2020
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Linsey Cottrell and Kendra Dupuy
It was very encouraging to have the environment highlighted in several of the presentations at this year’s National Mine Directors Meeting in Geneva. A plenary…
Are We Radically Underestimating the Effects of Climate on Armed Conflict?
Mar 3, 2020
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Cullen Hendrix
Climate change is widely recognized as a “threat multiplier.” From the United Nations to the G7 to the US Department of Defense, there is emerging consensus that climate change poses…
Colombia: Colombia’s ‘Peace Laboratory’ Decries Government Failures in Coca Substitution
Mar 2, 2020
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Alex Diamond and Pedro Arenas, Colombia Reports
Former coca farmers from Colombia’s “Peace Laboratory” fear a return to war if the government doesn’t live up to the peace process’ coca substitution program.
The Climate-Conflict Connection: Why Aren’t We Acting on It?
Mar 2, 2020
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International Institute for Sustainable Development
Somalia is one of the most fragile states in the world, while also being among the most vulnerable to climate change and least prepared to…
DRC: Children in the Democratic Republic of Congo Mine for Coltan and Face Abuse to Supply Smartphone Industry
Feb 29, 2020
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Esdras Tsongo, ABC News
Years of violence and political conflict across the Democratic Republic of Congo have made its vast mineral wealth an attractive revenue raiser — and rebel…
Myanmar: Myanmar Seizes over 600 Tons of Illegal Timbers in Single Week
Feb 29, 2020
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Star
Myanmar authorities recently seized over 626.1 tons of illegal timbers across the country in a week, state-run media reported on Saturday (Feb 29).
Silicon Valley Insider: The Intersection of Food and Gender
Feb 28, 2020
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Fiorella Riccobono
When examining the Sustainable Development Goals of The United Nations; zero hunger, responsible production, and climate action are three of the main focal points. In…