Welcome to the fourth edition of the FTA Gender Integration Team Newsletter: Focus on Gender.

This newsletter, which is published three times each year, is meant to serve as a mechanism for knowledge sharing, especially on good practices and lessons learned. It is a product of the collaboration between the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bioversity International, and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) as part of the CGIAR’s Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry.

Your knowledge, information and experiences are important to us. We invite you to share with us any gender-focused resources, tools or information you may have. Your comments and feedback on the newsletter are welcome and encouraged. To get in touch, please email Ana Maria Paez Valencia at ICRAF. 

Thoughts on Gender: Tackling the structural roots of gender inequity

By Dr. Margaret Kroma, Assistant Director General for Parternships & Impact, World Agroforestry Centre


Rural and smallholder women face tremendous obstacles in agricultural production and strategically participating in crop value chains. But removing obstacles alone, or increasing women’s participation in tree product value chains is not enough if the ultimate goal is women’s transformation and empowerment. Read more. 

Research update

Gender-equitable rights and access to forest and tree resources and benefits - a mixed methods approach in Uganda and Nicaragua (contact: Esther Mwangi; read more here.)

Gender, migration and forest governance – Lessons from Nepal (contact: Bimbika Sijapati Basnett; read more here)

For a list of all of CIFOR's gender-related projects, please click here.

Featured Project & Researcher

Project: Bioversity’s Innovations for Forest Resources Management (InFoRM) Program 

Researcher: Marlène Elias of Bioversity (below)

"I hope [this project] can achieve quite a lot in terms of engaging women of different backgrounds more fully in decision-making..."

To read the full interview with Marlène, click here. 

Gender News

Evolution of gender relations among Nepalese farmers (Bioversity)



Gender equality and sustainable development as human rights: A conversation (CIFOR)


Woman to Woman: How to increase support to female farmers (ICRAF)




Destiny in density: Afro-Colombian women struggle to sustain landscapes, livelihoods (CIFOR)


How participation in gender research enriches understanding (CIFOR)



The role of gender in landscape restoration - a case study from Burkina Faso (Bioversity)

 

Bearing the fruits of action (Bioversity)