Women farmers a less visible solution to huger.
A Less Visible Solution to Hunger

One reason global food security strategies continue to fall short is that they don't recognize the on-the-ground realities of women farmers. Gender inequality cannot be an afterthought to our food security strategies. It must be the linchpin.

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Prachi Chavan and Brother
Finding Her Voice

There was a time when 12-year-old Prachi Chavan thought that girls couldn’t study for as long as they wanted. That they couldn’t be free to make decisions for their own lives. That they were only meant to wash clothes, have babies, take care of a husband. Then, her view – and her hopes – changed after she became part of a school-based ICRW program in India that promotes equitable behaviors and attitudes between girls and boys. A girl, Prachi says, “can do anything boys can do.”

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Fighting for Her Land
Fighting for Her Land

Olivia Nakazi’s husband had recently died, leaving her alone to raise their six children. The four acres they farmed together for years helped them earn an income and feed their family. But Olivia’s in-laws wanted the property for themselves. Olivia stood firm, with Uganda’s new land reform laws and an ICRW partnership program bolstering her fight. She is one of many women in Uganda learning how to demand their property rights.

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Child marriage
Wedded to School

In Archana Hajare’s village, most parents had their daughters marry when they were, on average, 16 years old. Archana’s parents already had chosen her a husband – a man eight years her senior. But she didn’t want marriage or babies or a life of working in the sorghum fields. Not as a teenager. Instead, Archana’s deepest desire was to stay in school, go to college and become an educator. 

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Gender Equity Movement in Schools

An innovative school program champions gender equality between boys and girls.

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Commentary: A Less Visible Solution to Hunger
Wed, 10/13/2010

As they gather this week for the World Food Prize Symposium, government leaders, multilateral institutions, civil society and private corporations will again discuss international...

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ICRW and Cherie Blair Foundation Team Up on Research
Thu, 10/07/2010

The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) is collaborating with the U.K.-based Cherie Blair Foundation for Women to identify technologies that are helping women...

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Commentary: Gender Equality, Not a Zero-Sum Game
Mon, 10/04/2010

I saw a sign in a London tube station that read: “Women are from Earth, Men are from Earth. Deal with it.” We may have moved beyond Mars and Venus, but the “men versus women” debate...

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Finding Her Voice
Mon, 10/04/2010

Prachi and older brother Dhiraj say they get along much better since participating in a school-based ICRW program that works with boys and girls to promote gender equality....

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Child Marriage Bill Closer to Becoming Law
Tue, 09/21/2010

The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee in a unanimous vote on Sept. 21 sent the International Protecting Girls by Preventing Child Marriage Act to the full Senate for...

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A Note from Ethiopia

A young woman escapes her forced child marriage to return to school.

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Targeting Poverty and Gender Inequality to Improve Maternal Health

Targeting Poverty and Gender Inequality to Improve Maternal HealthThe realities and needs of poor women must be the central drivers of policies and programs designed to increase maternal healthcare access and utilization.

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