Ifpri Podcast

BOOK LAUNCH Advancing Gender Equality through Agricultural and Environmental Research: Past, Present, and Future Co-Organized by IFPRI and the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) NOV 23, 2021 - 09:00 AM TO 10:15 AM EST The past decade has seen renewed, and more concerted and comprehensive interest in gender equality and women’s empowerment in the agricultural development sector. This momentum has created a unique opportunity to advance gender equality, and to institutionalize gender research within agricultural research for development (AR4D) organizations. A new book “Advancing Gender Equality through Agricultural and Environmental Research: Past, Present, and Future” is a part of this overall momentum and the growing body of evidence and ideas it is generating. The book marks a shift away from a typical, instrumentalist outlook focused on how gender analysis can contribute to research objectives, such as improved productivity. Over 55 gender researchers who contributed to t