World migration report 2024
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched the World Migration Report 2024, which reveals significant shifts in global migration patterns, including a record number of displaced people
Women
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Nature, markets, tourism: exploring tourism's claims to conservation in India
The compilation of briefing papers produced as part of the Life as Commerce Project by Equations in partnership with the Global Forest Coalition. Focuses on prevalence and impacts of ecotourism in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand and the Andaman & Nicobar Islands.
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Promoting access to food in Contagem, Brazil
The municipality of Contagem in the State of Minas Gerais, despite being known as an industrial centre, has an enormous potential to develop urban agriculture. The current administration recognises this, and supports the development of agriculture as an important strategy for consolidating its Municipal Food and Nutritional Security Policy.
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Training manual on gender and climate change
For many years there has been the assumption that the negative impacts of climate change and the efforts to mitigate them have similar effects on both women and men. However, the world has progressively recognized that women and men experience climate change differently, and that gender inequalities worsen women
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Women's political empowerment-How long the road will remain less travelled
The need of the hour is to amend the 73rd Amendment to promote women's equal participation in three tiers of panchayats. All women's organisations and civil society organisations should form a common platform with a single agenda.
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State sets up fund for housing sop
May 31: The Chief Minister, Dr Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy, has directed officials to set up a Credit Guarantee Fund that will benefit 30 lakh women under the Indiramma Housing Scheme. The fund, with an initial corpus of Rs 15 crore, will stand guarantee to banks which have been hesitating to provide loans to Indiramma housing beneficiaries.
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It works to work together
With more than 3.5 million animals, Ethiopia has the largest cattle population in Africa. Milk production, however, is very low, and its per capita consumption is lower than the African or the world
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For these women money does grow on (neem) trees
Once, the women of Muddana Guddi, a village in Raichur district, in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, suffered from drought and poverty. With no alternatives except cursing their own troubles, they used to migrate to neighbouring states for work. Now, they are earning their own livelihoods by running a business worth hundreds of thousands of rupees.
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A matter of magnitude: the impact of the economic crisis on women and children in South Asia
High levels of income inequality, rapid urbanization, persistent
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Making sustainable biofuels work for smallholders farmers and rural households: issues and perspectives
This paper provides an overview of the main risks and opportunities that may arise from liquid biofuel production and use in developing countries. Both the potential environmental impacts and the socio-economic effects of liquid biofuel production and use are discussed, focusing, in particular, on the household-level implications. A few country-levels impacts,
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Empowering women through drinking water and sanitation: The Maharashtra initiative
Maharashtra is the first state in India to formulate a women policy in 1994, which was subsequently revised in 2001. This policy provides for participation, protection, economic development, capacity building and creation of a supportive environment for women.