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The Gender Brief is tailored to provide insight into the contributions of women in small-scale fisheries to healthy food systems and sustainable livelihoods in Malawi. Approximately 70 000 women in Malawi...

Highlights: This study evaluates the impact of climate change and two adaptation policies on gender equality, food security, and poverty. Future climate change would reduce food...

Background Undernutrition is a significant challenge in Ethiopia, where limited dietary diversity and widespread micronutrient deficiencies affect millions, especially women of reproductive age. Although much...

In the last two decades, the government of Rwanda has significantly lowered stunting among children under five years from 48% in 2000 to 33% in 2020 and recognizes dietary...

Key messages: Agricultural programs targeting women may increase women’s work burdens and shift the distribution of work between productive and reproductive tasks. Complementary information...

Background Food insecurity remain sub-Saharan African issues, particularly pastoral society. Pastoralist women’s active role in the household economy and livelihood diversification despite their...

In South Africa, especially in rural areas, access to essential resources such as water, sanitation, and energy is limited. This issue disproportionately impacts female-headed households, which also...

Market is the structure for the development and delivery of innovations that are able to address environmental, societal, and economic challenges. The lack of enabling conditions for market development has resulted in low...

Sub-Saharan Africa is highly vulnerable to climate change, with rural women dis- proportionately affected due to pre-existing gender inequalities that both increase their need for adaptation...

This issue brief presents a general overview of the potential for women’s participation in the fisheries value chain. It seeks to identify opportunities in regional trade for women in the fisheries value...