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#1187032018-10-26
System change means dismantling patriarchy
Our societies have mostly been organised to maximise capitalist accumulation for the benefit and privilege of elites and corporations. In the parallel exploitation of women and nature, both are seen as infinite and elastic resources – free, readily available, to be appropriated without resistance.
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#1189422018-12-07
Gender equality vital part of forest-based climate action, says CIFOR scientist at COP24
Gender-blind climate action risks jeopardizing efficiency and long-term sustainability
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#1197262019-02-01
Weaving is giving Indian women hope in the face of climate change
In recent months, 30-year-old Niru Sonowal and a dozen other women from her northeast Indian village have trekked on foot for miles every day in search of work.
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#1200652019-02-22
Women custodians of biodiversity hold key to food security
A UN report on the state of world biodiversity for food and agriculture links rising food insecurity and chronic hunger to threatened habitats and ecosystems. But traditional female stewards of biodiversity offer hope.
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#1200852019-02-25
Gender equality: goal to achieve?
The social, cultural, and power structure around the world has not provided the same privileges to women as compared to men. These persistent differences eventually create more gaps. Gender equality is when both men and women have equal rights, opportunities, accessibility of resources and parti ...
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#1200882019-02-26
Pioneering naturalists: the woman who linked caterpillars to butterflies
Most school kids can describe in detail the life cycle of butterflies: eggs hatch into caterpillars, caterpillars turn into cocoons and cocoons hatch. This seemingly basic bit of biology was once hotly debated. It was a pioneering naturalist, Maria Sibylla Merian, whose meticulous observations c ...
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#1202102019-03-05
Girls’ Love of Science Takes Root in Rural Colombia
In an isolated part of Colombia better known for rice, pineapples, and paramilitaries, something else is taking root: the next generation of female scientists. In 2016, Colombia’s government signed a peace treaty with the FARC guerilla group to bring an end to the country’s 50-year civil conflic ...
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#1202262019-03-06
In protecting their forests, these women transformed their futures
Had it not been for the women of the Roro tribe, things might look bleaker in their lush corner of Papua New Guinea.Set upon by companies unsustainably extracting the fish and timber that provide the indigenous group’s livelihoods and food security, the Roro saw an already difficult existence be ...
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#1203302019-03-13
Africa: Why the World Needs an African Ecofeminist Future
Orthodox economic models have failed us all, but women across Africa are resisting them and coming up with visionary alternatives. We need an "African ecofeminist future". And by we, I don't just mean Africa, I mean everyone.
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#1204472019-03-21
In Ethiopia, women and faith drive effort to restore biodiversity
In a tiny home not far from the U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa, 80-year-old Aragash Boka finally rests from a long day’s work carrying an awkward, heavy load. Boka lives and works in a corner of the world where, for the most part, fuelwood has remained important to daily life for centuries.
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#1206922019-04-09
Seasons of the witch: as women we nurture the riches of earth, food and health
The correlation of the feminine to nature, repressive for so long, can be a source of power. In the past few months I have started putting down roots. It’s a cliche but it’s literally what I’m doing. I spend my weekends transforming the tired old lawn into garden beds, layering woodchips, straw ...
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#1207442019-04-12
Saving a forest, saving livelihoods
Twenty years after a super cyclone ripped Odisha apart, a women’s group from a village recalls how it protected crops by reviving a lost forest
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#1212862019-06-12
Promoting gender equality a ‘crucial contribution’ in effort to restore, protect our planet’s oceans
“We need to empower each and every citizen to take care of the ocean and enable all women to play transformative and ambitious roles in understanding, exploring, protecting and sustainably managing our ocean”, said Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCO, pointing out that this year’s “specia ...
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#1213062019-06-13
Turning the tide: Empowering women to protect our oceans, future
Billions of people around the world depend on the fresh food and livelihoods provided by healthy oceans. In fisheries, one in two seafood workers is a woman.
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#1215752019-07-15
Jamaican women tackle the climate crisis on all sides
Globally, startling changes in the environment disproportionately affect women in developing countries, largely because of their lower economic and social status. In Jamaica, women head about 46 percent of households and bear the brunt of responsibility for shelter, water, and food security.
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#1217042019-07-25
Sweeping the Bush, protecting the land - The women quashing poaching
The black mamba is the most venomous snake in sub-Saharan Africa.
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#1217162019-07-26
Amplify: Involving women in climate-change mitigation isn’t only good policy – it’s good for the planet
Living in a North American bubble of privilege, I was recently gobsmacked by a fact that anyone who works in or with the developing world has long known is true.
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#1218212019-08-07
Agriculture's secret weapon: empowering women
Women farmers face the brunt of the threat posed by climate change, yet they may hold the key to helping limit its fallout, according to a landmark UN report to be released this week.
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#1218962019-08-14
Women Pastoralists Feel Heat of Climate Change
NAIROBI, Aug 14 2019 (IPS) - For many people, climate change is about shrinking glaciers, rising sea levels, longer and more intense heatwaves, and other extreme and unpredictable weather patterns.
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#1221842019-09-11
Breaking news: women have been saving our world long before you knew it
We’re past the time for the banal rhetoric of shattered glass ceilings. My patience has worn thin on vapid compliments and insipid tokenisms.
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#1227862019-10-29
Educating Girls May Be Nigeria's Best Defense Against Climate Change
The call-and-response is enthusiastic, rising above the sound of a fan whirring furiously in the corner of the room. About 50 women stand in a circle around the song leader, who pounds the air with an invisible hammer. When she gets to the second verse—"I will hammer with two hammers!"—she pumps ...
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#1229882019-11-14
Women, wildlife and the workings of the CBD
One key decision to be taken over the next two weeks at the UN Biodiversity conference is whether to adopt new guidance on sustainable wildlife management. These are practices that sustain populations and habitats of wildlife while simultaneously supporting people’s livelihoods – from providing ...
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#1231182019-11-26
Climate Change Is Brutal for Everyone, but Worse for Women
The climate crisis is so epic, so vicious, so wide-reaching, that at this point there are few aspects of the human experience it isn’t transforming.
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#1232882019-12-05
Vegetable gardens bring veritable gains for women in climate-struck Cambodia
On the road winding into Chreng village in Cambodia’s Pursat province, a group of boys are playing volleyball on an arid plot of land as villagers watch and cheer
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#1234932019-12-18
ASEAN sharpens focus on gender in biodiversity conservation
Factoring in gender roles and relations in policymaking is crucial in the success of biodiversity conservation efforts, experts in a regional training workshop conducted here said.
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#1235312019-12-19
Women from the Xingu Territory unite against threats from Bolsonaro administration
“We don’t think about selling wood or any part of the Earth to get money. We have so many ways to support ourselves that we don’t need to destroy anything.” This declaration came from Anna Terra Yawalapiti in her speech at the opening ceremony of the first summit of the women of the Xingu Indige ...
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#1235492019-12-20
5 ways climate change affects women and girls
This Christmas, we are shining the spotlight on some of the dangers that women and girls face when disasters strike. Hear directly from the women and girls who are bearing the brunt of crises around the world.
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#1236742020-01-13
African women scientists start taking their rightful place in climate research
As climate change threatens harvests, the lack of researchers, particularly female researchers, is limiting Africa’s ability to cope with the crisis. Bulawayo — As a child, Kenyan meteorologist Saumu Shaka helped out on her parents’ small farm growing maize and pigeon pea — and learned how the w ...
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#1236822020-01-13
How Nepal benefits when women become active in water management
Humanitarian engineering student Elia Hauge discovers that a changing demographic in Nepal has led to more women taking on active roles in managing water.
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#1237552020-01-16
Reversing Climate Change with a Feminine Response
The UK-based charity, TreeSisters‘ feminine response to climate change hopes to shift humanity’s identity from a consumer to a restorer species, calling for collective responsibility and planetary restoration through a reforestation revolution. It nurtures ordinary women to do extraordinary things.
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#1237822020-01-17
She started climbing trees as a kid. Then this ecologist helped create scientist Barbie.
Nalini Nadkarni didn’t play with Barbies as a girl. She was too busy climbing the maple trees in her front yard in Bethesda, Md.The forest ecologist might seem an unlikely person to help design and promote Barbie dolls. But over the past six months, she has been inspiring girls worldwide to play ...
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#1238102020-01-20
'You Need To Act Now': Meet 4 Girls Working To Save The Warming World
A teenage girl, Greta Thunberg, has become the world-famous face of the climate strike movement. But she's far from alone: Thunberg has helped rally and inspire others — especially girls.
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#1240122020-01-29
Climate breakdown 'is increasing violence against women'
Climate breakdown and the global crisis of environmental degradation are increasing violence against women and girls, while gender-based exploitation is in turn hampering our ability to tackle the crises, a major report has concluded.
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#1240622020-02-03
A New Report Reveals Climate Change Is Increasing Gender-Based Violence
Climate breakdown and the global crisis of environmental degradation are increasing violence against women and girls, while gender-based exploitation is in turn hampering our ability to tackle the crises, a major report has concluded.
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#1241162020-02-11
Leading Shropshire scientist retiring after 40 years urges girls to embark on career in science
Sue Townsend, Biodiversity Learning Manager at the Field Studies Council (FSC) in Montford Bridge, near Shrewsbury, will hang up her wellies at the end of this week.
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#1245532020-03-05
20 Heroines Revolutionizing Food Activism to Improve the Planet
It’s no secret that women all over the world play an important role in food systems—in cultivating gardens for school canteens in Cote d’Ivoire, producing more than half of the food supply for rural areas in South America, establishing seed banks in India, and developing agricultural technologie ...
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#1245632020-03-06
International Women's Day: progress on gender equality remains slow
The report finds faltering progress and notes that hard-won advances are being reversed by rampant inequality, climate change, conflict and exclusionary politics.
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#1245782020-03-09
2020: Super year for women in biodiversity?
On March 8, International Women’s Day, we wanted to celebrate women’s achievements and contributions to life but also be reminded of what is still missing in terms of realizing equity and equality for women, including in the realm of natural resources and the governance of nature.
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#1245932020-03-10
2020: Super year for women in biodiversity?
On March 8, International Women’s Day, we wanted to celebrate women’s achievements and contributions to life but also be reminded of what is still missing in terms of realizing equity and equality for women, including in the realm of natural resources and the governance of nature.
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#1246182020-03-11
Women bear the brunt of climate change in Angola
Tehandjila Quessale's heart sank every time her mother sent her to fetch water for their crops, up in the mountains of Angola's southern Huila region. The 16-year-old had to leave school early and walk three hours to join a long queue of people at the nearest water point.
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#1246622020-03-13
Women shouldering the burden of climate crisis need action, not speeches
Milikini Failautusi, 30, lives on the Pacific island of Tuvalu. She has become virtually a nomad in her own country after rising tides forced her to leave her ancestral atoll and move to the main island, Funafuti.
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#1246652020-03-13
Women bear the brunt of climate change in Angola
Tehandjila Quessale's heart sank every time her mother sent her to fetch water for their crops, up in the mountains of Angola's southern Huila region.
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#1246922020-03-16
Women act to make slums climate-resilient, one house at a time
Farida Sheikh remembers her house in the slums in Ahmedabad feeling like a furnace, where summer temperatures have reached up to 50 degrees Celsius. But for the last four years, the situation inside the house has cooled down.
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#1247702020-03-20
Women’s rights, traditional knowledge and biodiversity
Women’s organising in Kyrgyzstan serves as an example of the inseparable linkages between gender, environmental and economic justice. The sheer scale of the challenges faced by our planet is difficult to comprehend, but there is now at least recognition of the fact that ecological and social cri ...
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#1255452020-11-04
Mother Nature can mend our maladies
Adding a gender lens could expedite implementation of nature-based solutions.The devastating impacts of climate change are disproportionately experienced by women, as they face higher risks and greater burdens than men. Women’s unequal participation in decision making, economic exclusion, exploi ...
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#1256522020-11-11
The Bengaluru women creating a visual record of nature
Sugandhi Gadadhar once waited 18 days to catch sight of the majestic but publicity-averse denizens Daroji Sloth Bear Sanctuary in Karnataka.
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#1256532020-11-11
Ratifying the Escazú Agreement Will Support Women Land Defenders and Protect Nature
Patricia Gualinga is surrounded by a burgeoning rainforest as she zooms in to participate in an online forum. While her image appears slightly out of focus as she calls in from her remote location in the Ecuadorian Amazon, her words, courage and determination transmit crystal clear:
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#1259422020-12-01
How women from Hazaribagh are sparking a green revolution in the heart of India's coal state
Women farmers like Rina Yadav — a mother of three — are part of PRADAN and Corteva Agriscience's initiative to promote sustainable agriculture and financial literacy in Hazaribagh, Jharkhand.
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#1260372020-12-07
Women Are Still Not Heard in the Climate Policy Conversation
Climate change effects don’t have the same impact on everyone: Vulnerable groups always have it worse. This discrepancy is apparent even when these groups are not minorities, which is the case for women—half of the world’s population.
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#1263432020-12-18
‘Celebrating resilience of bio diverse community’
The North East Network (NEN) in collaboration with Thetsumi Women Society and SEWA Thetsumi Unit organised a biodiversity festival at Thetsumi in Phek District, Nagaland on December 15 under the theme “Celebrating resilience of bio diverse community.”