Blog Posts: gender

Despite making up more than half of the world’s 3 billion rural people, merely 14% of agricultural landowners globally are women. Five communities offer lessons on how women can realize their rights to community land.

Nigeria, the largest oil and gas producer in Africa, is taking steps toward a sustainable economic recovery. The nation's stimulus package can tackle both climate change and COVID-19 simultaneously, offering the world an example of what stimulus packages can do when used smartly and strategically.

Emerging evidence from this pandemic and experience from previous disease outbreaks show that it’s rural women who will disproportionately bear the socio-economic hardships of COVID-19.

Badly designed climate action can leave people behind. Here are five ways governments can create fair policies and ensure climate justice.

Gender, social network analysis and native trees: All these combine to offer hope and transformation to a rural community in the Brazilian state of Para, where slash-and-burn monoculture has left forests blackened and nutrition sparse.

Women have historically been left out of infrastructure fields like energy and transport. Will the low-carbon transition offer more job opportunities for women?

Research shows that water projects can become more effective when women participate. So why are they still being left out?

In a study of corporate land deals with rural communities in Tanzania and Mozambique, women consistently received less in return for their land, and had a harder time once they were relocated—despite national commitments to gender equality.

From International Women's Day to Women's History Month, March is a good time to focus on gender equality -- and the need to support women who are the most vulnerable to climate impacts. Tackling this challenge is essential to creating a global sustainable economy.