Ruth Smith

Research Fellow with @fosta_health @UniversityLeeds. Researching #GenderInAg & politics of dev aid 🌾 she/her

[Ruth Smith @smith93_ruth]

How many words is a photo worth? 📷 reflections from the field ⬇️

[FoSTA Health project @fosta_health]

#Horticulture value chains are growing fast in #Tanga, #Tanzania. For @fosta_health, @UniversityLeeds' @smith93_ruth is exploring #gender relations, aspirations, empowerment through participatory photography. #PhotoVoice
https://t.co/VWNrUoDxft

[Ruth Smith @smith93_ruth]

Setting the stage for the 2026 International Year of the Woman Farmer at the @CGIARgender #AcceleratingEqualityinAg 🌾

Mmatlou Mabitsela: "smallholder farmers are not small - we farm big on small land, and the piece of land is just the beginning - we will not be small forever"

[Ruth Smith @smith93_ruth]

2. Wed 8th 1:30-3 @smith93_ruth will be chairing the 'Measuring Empowerment, Gender Inclusive Climate Action, & the Role of Care Work' session

3. Thu 9th 1:30-3 @smith93_ruth will be presenting on 'Empowerment or entrapment? The limits of market-oriented interventions for WE'

[Ruth Smith @smith93_ruth]

Team @fosta_health is in Cape Town for the @CGIARgender Gender Equality & Inclusion #AcceleratingEqualityinAg conference🌱

We will be presenting on FoSTA-Health #GenderinAg research from Tanzania, Malawi, South Africa & Zambia. Join us at the following sessions:

[Ruth Smith @smith93_ruth]

1. Wed 8th 11-12:30 @MapenzieT and @Rachie0283 will be presenting in the 'Women’s Access to Resources and Technology: A Key to Agricultural Food System Transformation' full scientific session

[Ruth Smith @smith93_ruth]

Whose empowerment counts - & how to measure it?

Pleased to share preliminary findings from @fosta_health exploring rural Tanzanian & Malawian women's lived experiences of development interventions promoting women's economic empowerment. Please read & let us know your thoughts⬇️

[FoSTA Health project @fosta_health]

While western models of 'women empowerment' emphasize independence from relationships, women often find empowerment through them, shows @fosta_health research in #Tanzania and #Malawi, by @MapenzieT & @smith93_ruth. Read more: https://t.co/4mfd9jVkgZ

[Nadia Whittome MP @NadiaWhittomeMP]

Attacking the rights of a marginalised group isn’t a win for feminism.

Demanding that women be defined by our biology isn't a win for feminism.

The people driving this are not acting in the interests of women. They're taking us all backwards and ushering in the far right.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

BREAKING - According to @TheLancet, in the 1st year of Israel’s genocidal campaign, life expectancy in Gaza almost halved to 40.6 years, the lowest in the world. 14 years less than Afganistan and 16 less than Somalia.
https://t.co/x6Lwb84YPj

[Emma Pewsey @Emma_Pewsey]

With #Budget2024 confirming an increase in minimum wage I've updated my chart of UKRI minimum PhD stipends.

From next April, PhD students in the UK will be around £1400 a year worse off than if they worked 37.5 hours a week on minimum wage

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

My new report is out - available in all UN official languages: https://t.co/FlGLzPTdhz

Genocide is a complex and insidious crime; proving destructive intent is an onerous task - yet not when it is so ostentatious, sustained by a political doctrine of ideological hatred and articulated through institutional structures and policies.

[Ruth Smith @smith93_ruth]

@LeylsTurk They look identical! I will guess right is Olive?!

[حسام شبات @HossamShabat]

Israel’s army has released fabricated dossiers framing us, the last remaining journalists in North Gaza reporting on Israel’s extermination and ethnic-cleansing campaign, as “terrorists”.

This blatant and belligerent attempt to transform us, the last witnesses in the north, into killable targets is an assassination threat and obvious attempt to preemptively justify our murder.

We would like to remind everyone that after murdering our colleague Ismail Al Ghoul, Israel released a document that claimed he supposedly received a military ranking on July 1, 2007, when he would have been a 10 year old child.

This public threat was made without any evidence and is part of a systematic propaganda campaign to justify the unjustifiable as Israel continues to target civilians in Gaza, including doctors, aid workers, children and us journalists.

We call on our colleagues and media institutions around the world to show their solidarity with us.

Despite these dangerous and untrue threats made against us, we remain committed to our profession and will continue to report the facts on the ground as the genocide regretfully continues unabated.

[@UniLeedsGlobal @UniLeedsGlobal]

#WorldFoodDay spotlight:
@SWhitfield85 tackles inequalities against #GlobalSouth farmers with the development of a framework to help researchers and policymakers ensure that future transformations in agriculture are both just and fair.
Read: https://t.co/G6fjCkIzmR
@WHO @WHOAFRO

[Philippe Lazzarini @UNLazzarini]

What’s it like to be a girl or a woman in #Gaza following 10 months of war.
Here’s a glimpse but there’s much more:

* Women & girls can often spend months without taking a shower, going through several menstrual cycles without washing up.
* They have to cut their hair very short due to lice, lack of shampoo, not enough water or combs.
* ⁠Many said they don’t feel safe, have no privacy or dignity in overcrowded shelters & displacement sites. They skip going to the toilet & therefore avoid eating or drinking water.
* Some women have been wearing the same head scarf for the past 10 months.

Women in #Gaza are telling our teams they are struggling to see themselves as women. One woman said: “I don’t feel I’m a woman anymore”. This is another aspect of the deepening dehumanization of this war.

A #ceasefire for every girl & woman in #Gaza also to restore some of their dignity.

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

The longest sentence handed down to a violent racist rioter this week is shorter than the sentences imposed on entirely peaceful environmental protesters last month.
Labour must repeal the Tory laws that treat peaceful protest more severely than violent disorder and assault.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Gaza: In the largest and most shameful concentration camp of the 21st century, Israel is genociding the Palestinians one neighborhood at the time, one hospital at the time, one school at the time, one refugee camp at the time, one 'safe zone' at the time. With US and European weapons. And amid the indifference of all "civilised nations".

May the Palestinians forgive us for our collective inability to protect them, honoring the most basic meaning of intl law.

[Ruth Smith @smith93_ruth]

@Shivi279 @Dr_Lata_N @GBGoodwin @obanipedi 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 congrats Dr 🥳🎉🎆

[Heidi Matthews @Heidi__Matthews]

Destroying water treatment plants is a war crime in its own right. Doing so in full knowledge that it will contribute to the spread of polio is evidence of genocidal intent.

[Ghassan Abu Sitta, Chair of Conflict Medicine AUB @GhassanAbuSitt1]

BREAKING: The Lancet has just published this article "conservatively" estimating that the death toll in the Gaza genocide could be 186,000 people or more. That's 8% of the population, obliterated. These are apocalyptic figures.
https://t.co/0yOgzBHoyt
https://t.co/0yOgzBHoyt

[Nicolas-Tyrell Scott @iamntyrell]

Reform U.K. being higher than Green is a reminder that the continued rise of the far right isn’t to be neglected over the next few years