Gender

When Women Lead: Odisha’s Path to Climate-Resilient Agriculture

The climate crisis is on our doorstep, and it is gendered. Climate change induced food security affects women and children Source: IFPRI South Asia Office

From participation to power: Advancing women’s leadership in rural development

The International Day of Rural Women (October 15) highlights the essential roles that rural women play in sustaining households, managing natural resources, and contributing to rural economies. Yet even as they participate extensively in agriculture an... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program

Applying the Women’s Empowerment Metric in National Statistical Systems (WEMNS) to build gender equity

Governments’ adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action in 1995—which advanced a set of common principles on gender equality—elevated women’s empowerment in policy as an end in itself, not just as a means to achieving other development... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program

Applying the Women’s Empowerment Metric in National Statistical Systems (WEMNS) to build gender equity

WEMNS was developed by IFPRI and partners as a solution to this data gap and is a streamlined tool intended for use in large-scale, multitopic surveys in both rural and urban areas and was designed to be added to existing surveys. Source: IFPRI Africa Regional Office (AFR)

Launch of IFPRI’s evaluation of the Comprehensive Rice Fallow Management (CRFM) in Odisha

On April 29, 2025, at a multi-stakeholder event in Bhubaneswar, the Hon’ble Deputy Chief Minister of Odisha officially launched the Source: IFPRI South Asia Office