Blog

Are female or male farmers in Africa more affected by weather variability and extreme shocks?

• 04/16/2024
• Elizabeth Hohenberger

A new activity is helping women farmers access agricultural insurance in rural Kenya.

• 04/11/2024
• Janet Nackoney, Dorah Nesoba

This interview with Serge Ramanantsoa, USAID/Madagascar, is part of the DDI/EEI/LRG Women’s Land Rights Champions series, which profiles staff across USAID Missions and operating units who are working to advance women’s land rights.

• 08/24/2023
• LandLinks

In Uganda, USAID, and Berkeley Lab partnered with Clean Energy Enthusiasts to help women entrepreneurs upgrade to more efficient and productive electric equipment. After conducting a survey of small business owners on the challenges of accessing and financing efficient electric equipment, the team trained 240 women small business owners in eight districts across Uganda.

• 04/06/2023
• Christine Chumbler

Millions of people lack access to clean and safe water, especially in developing regions like the West Africa Sahel. The situation is even more dire for women and girls, who often bear the burden of fetching water, sometimes walking miles a day to bring fresh water back to their families. 

• 04/04/2023
• Ariel Schindler

Adaptation to water insecurity can create valuable opportunities to redress imbalances in decision-making power between men and women, or between different ethnic and socio-economic groups.

• 03/22/2023
• Stockholm Environment Institute

Published research on the intersection of gender, climate change and livestock production in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) is scarce. Some studies may address two of these issues, but hardly any address all three.

• 03/14/2023
• Livestock Systems Innovation Lab

Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk and Resilience (MRR Innovation Lab) researchers are returning to the sites of their prior program evaluations where people who took part in the studies have since then been struck by disaster.

• 01/18/2023
• MRR Innovation Lab

The project, Gender-sensitive Agricultural Index-based Insurance (GAIINS), will be implemented through the SERVIR Eastern and Southern Africa (E&SA) program.

• 09/07/2022
• Dorah Nesoba

Does research on food security have to end when a study is complete?

• 07/06/2022
• Agrilinks Team

The story of Mrs. Rabi Abora from the Mazamni village in Niger is a stunning example of the devastating impact climate change is having on women's livelihoods, nutrition, and health. Her story also demonstrates concrete actions to help mitigate these impacts.

• 05/18/2022
• Shawn Baker

African and Asian countries have developed Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and National Adaptation Plans (NAPs).

• 03/23/2022
• Funke Aderonmu

To strengthen communities' access to and management of water and pasture, USAID EKISIL—which means “peace” in the local language of Karamoja—initiated climate risk management (CRM) actions in the Abim, Kaabong, Kotido, and Moroto districts

• 10/13/2021
• Lorine Giangola, Leah Quin

With USAID support, a local traditional chief and his administration are using land resource rights to empower women, protect forests and wildlife, and build a chiefdom for the future.

• 10/07/2021
• Chando Mapoma

In the dairy sector, low-emissions development (LED) often utilizes intensification practices that reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and increase yield. However, LED focuses on technical practices and outcomes, seldom considering the subsequent impacts on women’s and men's social distribution of burdens and benefits.

• 08/04/2021
• Sadie Shelton