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Climate change compromises gender equality. Gender inequalities and structural constraints to equality in society tend to exacerbate negative impacts by limiting women’s coping and adaptive capacities. It is essential to ensure that women can take climate action and seize coping and adaptation opportunities...

While most breeding efforts are focused on producing improved rice varieties, farmers in sub-Saharan Africa continue to use old varieties that are susceptible...

Joint decision-making is gaining significant traction in literature. To this end, studies investigating the adoption of technologies focusing on male decision-makers...

Digital tools have the potential to revolutionize modern agriculture through precise nutrient management practices that improve fertilizer-use efficiency...

Women in Ghana have been found to adopt high-yielding varieties and improved management systems at lower rates than men. There is an urgent need for women...

Gender disparity manifests in various ways, one of those being giving women limited access to knowledge and skills development. This is one of the reasons...

The journey of Srimati Gouri Rani Shankar is nothing less than an inspiration for women in general and women in agriculture in particular. She has set...

Women were slightly more empowered in farm household decision-making if they were engaged in off-farm employment and were less experienced in farming....

The importance of seed systems to empower women has so far been neglected. Applying gender analysis to improve seed systems and reduce/overcome existing...

This toolkit was developed to support mixed methods research to explore how gender dynamics is constitutive of male migration, in the context of eastern...