Agriculture

Landownership and the gender gap in agriculture: disappointing insights from Northern Ghana

Land provides the basis for food production and is an indispensable input for economic livelihoods in rural areas. Landownership is strongly associated with social and economic power, not only across communities and households, but also within households.

Publication Date: 
01/06/2019
Phanwin Yokying, Isabel Lambrecht
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Tags:
Land Ownership, Land Tenure, Agriculture, Women, Ghana, Africa
Environment

Indicators on gender, poverty, the environment and progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals in African Countries - 2019

This is the twentieth volume of Gender, Poverty, and Environmental Indicators and progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals in African Countries published by the Statistics Department of the African Development Bank Group.

Publication Date: 
29/05/2019
African Development Bank
Tags:
Poverty, Environment, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Women, Africa
Environment

Indicators on gender, poverty, the environment and progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals in African Countries - 2019

This is the twentieth volume of Gender, Poverty, and Environmental Indicators and progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals in African Countries published by the Statistics Department of the African Development Bank Group.

Publication Date: 
29/05/2019
African Development Bank
Tags:
Environment, Poverty, Women, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Africa
Health

Teenage girls to deliver over 70 million babies by 2030 — Report

If current trends are not checked, there will be more than 70 million babies born to teenage girls globally between now and 2030, a new report by Save the Children has found.

Publication Date: 
29/05/2019
Premium Times (Nigeria)
Tags:
Health, Infant mortality, Nigeria, India, UNICEF, Women, Health Care, Nutrition, Somalia, Sudan, Chad, Niger, Central African Republic, Africa
Health

Trends in contraceptive prevalence rates in sub-Saharan Africa since the 2012 London Summit on Family Planning: results from repeated cross-sectional surveys

The Family Planning 2020 (FP2020) initiative, launched at the 2012 London Summit on Family Planning, aims to enable 120 million additional women to use modern contraceptive methods by 2020 in the world’s 69 poorest countries. It will require almost doubling the pre-2012 annual growth rate of modern contraceptive prevalence rat

Publication Date: 
17/05/2019
Saifuddin Ahmed, Yoonjoung Choi, Jose G Rimon & et al
Lancet Global Health
Tags:
Contraception, Family Planning, Africa, Women, Poverty, Burkina Faso, Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Niger, Nigeria, Uganda
People

The little data book on gender 2019

The Little Data Book on Gender 2019 illustrates the progress towards gender equality for 217 economies around the world.

Publication Date: 
16/05/2019
The World Bank
Tags:
Women, Statistics, Education, Health, Unemployment, India, Global
Climate Change

Scaling up climate information services through public-private partnership business models: An example from northern Ghana

Between 2011 and 2017, CCAFS West Africa piloted how the dissemination of climate information services (CIS) to farmers in its climate-smart village sites (Lawra and Jirapa) in Ghana could help the

Publication Date: 
03/05/2019
Relief Web
Tags:
Climate Change, Ghana, Farmers, Women, Rainfall, Agriculture, Irrigation, Food Security, Africa
Energy

Changing energy use in rural Africa with power from solar, clean stoves…and women

Widespread use of fuelwood and charcoal for cooking and heating is a notable barrier to achieving development and conservation goals in sub-Saharan Africa, yet previous attempts at introducing

Publication Date: 
03/05/2019
Mongabay
Tags:
Energy, Solar Energy, Chulhas (Cookstoves), Women, Firewood, Charcoal, Rural Electrification, Africa, Renewable Energy
Health

Solar tracking bracelets protect nomadic Kenyan mothers and babies

As health workers approached a huge acacia tree that would provide shade for a makeshift clinic, more than 50 women and 30 children were already waiting for them.

Publication Date: 
03/05/2019
Thompson Reuters Foundation (TRUST)
Tags:
Health, Health Care, Kenya, Solar Energy, Maternal Health, Women, Africa, Innovation
Energy

Getting to gender equality in the geothermal energy sector: road to sustainability

Geothermal energy is globally recognized as a clean and reliable source of heat and electric power supply. The environmental and social risks posed by geothermal energy projects share common features with those of mining and extractive projects, as well as other large-scale energy infrastructure projects.

Publication Date: 
01/05/2019
The World Bank
Tags:
Geothermal Energy, Women, Environment, Health, India, Global

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