Research Summaries Archive

Jamie Hagen,

Queen’s University Belfast

This work considers how the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda can better include LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender and queer) voices in gender, peace and security initiatives. Central to including lesbian, bisexual and transgender women in WPS is confronting heteronormativity and cisprivilege.

2019

Minority Groups and Discrimination

Bringing the Border to Baby: Birth Registration as Bordering Practice for Migrant Women’s Children

Allison Petrozziello,

Wilfrid Laurier University

This article discusses the ways babies born to migrant and refugee women are being excluded from birth registration and calls for rights defenders to recognize and resist these practices. It focuses on the Dominican Republic’s denial of birth certificates for people of Haitian descent, and an action-research project ai

2020

Agriculture and Rural

The Complicated Gendering of Farming and Household Food Responsibilities in Northern Ghana

Siera Vercillo,

University of Waterloo

Agricultural development programmes often operate on assumptions about gender roles that do not reflect contextual dynamics. Interventions should be participatory and cooperative to reflect changing contexts and new challenges.

2021

A feminist political ecology of farm resource entitlements in Northern Ghana

Siera Vercillo,

University of Waterloo

Climate change in Ghana is intensifying gender inequalities in agriculture, but gender must be viewed intersectionally to fully understand vulnerabilities and their causes

2021

On the realities of gender inclusion in climate change policies in Nepal

Anu Rai,

Kathmandu University

Climate change impacts are felt globally but not equally with especially women being most vulnerable. The climate change and related policies in Nepal have not enabled to balance the odds.

2019

Factors affecting social determinants of female adolescent malnutrition in Bangladesh

Tazkia Tarannum,

Queen Mary, University of London

Understanding and emphasising on social determinants of healths and inequality is as important as focusing on biological or clinical causes of female adolescent malnutrition especially in lower middle income countries like Bangladesh which can have both undernutrition and overnutrition. Tackling malnutrition should be

2017

Agriculture and Rural

The piper calls the tune: changing roles of Northern Ghanaian women in agriculture

Eileen Nchanji,

CGIAR

Even though men make most of the decisions in relation to access to land and productive technologies, the increasing role of international organisations, especially those who push for gender equality and policies, have provided an avenue for women to be able to access these resources in the non-traditional sense.

2020

Climate and Environment

[draft] Social vulnerability of smallholder farmers to climate change in Zambia: the applicability of social vulnerability index

William Dumenu,

Forestry Research Institute of Ghana

2018

The impact of a gender and business training on income hiding: An experimental study in Vietnam

Erwin Bulte,

Wageningen University & Research

An experiment within an experiment. A randomised controlled trial determines whether women received training or not, both groups of women played lab games for real money, which were used to measure the extent to which they would hide income from their husbands.

2018

Women in farmer-led irrigation development: the case of Infulene Valley, Maputo – Mozambique

Natalia Reyes,

IHE Delft Institute for Water Education

Problematising both how women have been studied in academia, and how women are seen by development agencies in irrigation projects

Queering Women, Peace and Security