GEARE

Hub for leading thinkers engaging with gender and agriculture. We Are (tweeting from) Penn State!

[GEARE @GearePsu]

Sexual violence is a pervasive threat to female farm workers, especially to young girls. To learn more about how the U.S. could instill sweeping change in support the safety of these workers, read this article from PSU faculty: https://t.co/fVXHQlJ1Y2

[GEARE @GearePsu]

A new research project from Penn State University’s @agsciences puts the spotlight on Argentina, where women producers have formed a cooperative and a wine label to promote women in the industry.

Learn more here: https://t.co/steowG8Ufa

[GEARE @GearePsu]

A recent collaborative research project led by PSU College of Agricultural Sciences in partnership with SARI w/support from @USAID revealed that about 60% of women farmers are time-poor in Northern Ghana. Watch the feature from @GHOneTV here: https://t.co/bOEsw709c0

[CGIAR GENDER @CGIARgender]

📅 November 23 🕥 09.00 AM EST

📢 Book launch 📖: Advancing gender equality through agricultural & environmental research: Past, present, & future" co-organized by @IFPRI and @PIM_CGIAR

👉 https://t.co/FoGuJDt1u4 #GenderinAg
Featuring @jemimah_njuki @CL_McDougall and more

[GEARE @GearePsu]

Congratulations @DH_PlantVillage! We are excited to collaborate and work together to fully integrate gender into the new innovation lab!

[David Hughes @DH_PlantVillage]

We are delighted and honored to be chosen to lead the @USAID new Innovation Lab on Current and Emerging threats to Crops. https://t.co/zwOodEzJnY The #ClimateCrisis means many threats ahead. But we have phenomenal partners and want MORE. It takes a village as we say @plantvillage

[GEARE @GearePsu]

Happening now! Authors share from forthcoming book on Gender, Food, and COVID at the #CultivatingEquality21 Conference. https://t.co/0fpaFGsjYR

[CGIAR GENDER @CGIARgender]

Did you miss a #CultivatingEquality21 session? Recordings of past sessions are available via the conference portal: Log in and find the session you’d like to watch 📺 Then, recordings and all session resources are in your green “AirTouch” device in the lower right corner ↘️ 🟢

[GEARE @GearePsu]

Happening now! @FeedtheFuture Innovation Lab Community of Practice for cross-cutting theme of Gender panel at the #Cultivatingequality2021 Conference! https://t.co/0fpaFGsjYR

[GEARE @GearePsu]

Considering emphasis on climate change and COVID impacts, women and marginalized groups need to be focus of addressing food system challenges if true progress is to be made.

[United Nations @UN]

Thursday's @FoodSystems Summit will be a historic opportunity to leverage the power of food systems to drive the #COVID19 recovery & help achieve the #GlobalGoals. https://t.co/iB0xTfv8uR

[Emily Southard @EmilyMLSouthard]

Graduate and undergraduate students doing work in topics of rural studies, please consider submitting an abstract to the Rural Studies Student Conference hosted by the Rural Sociology Graduate Association at Penn State University. The conference is virtual and free!

[GEARE @GearePsu]

Penn State students participated in gender and agriculture internships with several global NGOs this summer. Fasa David (CED, Class of 2021) focused on #gendertransformativeapproaches for @CAREGlobal. Check out her contributions here: https://t.co/vWVhlEFwgn

[GEARE @GearePsu]

"For me, Women's Equality Day is really an opportunity to remind people that equality in words is not the same as equality in practice.” Today we recognize the importance of inclusion of all women and intersectional approaches to gender equity.
https://t.co/7L2El0gT9J

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Cambodia with women farmers. (2/2)

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@EmilyMLSouthard is a M.S. student in Rural Sociology and International Agriculture & Development. She participated in the USAID Feed the Future Sustainable Intensification (Kansas State) funded project, Women in Agriculture: Cambodia and conducted her thesis research in (1/2)

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project, WAgN: Honduras. Over the past decade, she has partnered with the CYEC in Kenya, teaching an embedded course that travels each May with undergraduate students to work with the center. (2/2)

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Janelle Larson is an Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics and Interim Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Penn State Berks Campus. She is an integral member of the GEARE faculty team and was the PI of the USAID Feed the Future Horticulture Innovation Lab funded (1/2)

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Kaitlin Fischer is currently a key contributor to the USAID Feed the Future Peanut Innovation Lab funded project focused on understanding time poverty among women smallholders in northern Ghana. She is a Ph.D. student in Rural Sociology & @PennStateINTAD.

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School. She is currently at Penn State, as a Master’s student in Rural Sociology & International Agriculture and Development. (2/2)

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@HazelGVelascoP1 was a research assistant in the USAID Feed the Future Horticulture Innovation lab funded project, Women in Agriculture Network: Honduras. She contributed to the project’s success and was one of the main facilitators of the gender-integrated Farmer Field (1/2)

[GEARE @GearePsu]

biomass fuel use and fuel access for refugees in eastern Africa. https://t.co/XAtmDNxXUT (2/2) @CIFOR

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@marynjeng is currently a research scientist at the World Agroforestry (@ICRAF), in Nairobi, Kenya. She participated in Penn State’s first Gender Research and Integrated Training program. Since then, she has been a collaborator on projects focusing on gender implications of (1/2)