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Food & Agriculture

Taking women farmers seriously

Rather than designing solutions for half the farming population, agricultural researchers, policymakers, and others must consider the specific needs and preferences of women farmers in developing countries. Only then can the huge female agricultural labour force reach its potential to ensure food security and drive economic growth.
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Lifestyle

Sustainable development in Indigenous communities must start with local women

If development programmes are serious about long-term change, they have to create real pathways towards paid, respected roles within the communities women already belong to.
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Policy & Finance

AI can propel women forward – or set them back further

AI will mostly benefit those already well positioned to leverage it – men. Businesses and governments cannot afford to overlook gender as they invest in talent policies for the AI age.
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Cities

What happened to gender equality in 2025

Progress is fragile and 2026 must be the year of action and accountability on gender rights.

All #gender Opinion

22 December 2025

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Manufacturing

Can the fashion industry adapt to a warming world?

18 December 2025

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Policy & Finance

India’s climate diplomacy must account for domestic inequalities

15 November 2025

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Policy & Finance

Indigenous women leaders at COP30: Listen to us as equals

22 July 2025

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Policy & Finance

Financing for development must account for women

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Policy & Finance

India’s digital divide and the consequent welfare bias

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Policy & Finance

Ahead of COP30, environmentalists risk freedom to defend nature

9 July 2025

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Policy & Finance

Global rollback of women's rights puts SDGs at risk

19 June 2025

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Policy & Finance

Indigenous knowledge is a living science, stop stealing it

6 May 2025

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Policy & Finance

Street vendors are workers – they should have workers’ rights

30 April 2025

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Policy & Finance

Fake ‘threats’: How trans issues become a weapon

16 April 2025

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Policy & Finance

Philanthropy in an era of declining development aid

24 March 2025

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Policy & Finance

Aid cuts could erase women from public life

11 December 2024

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Policy & Finance

Did COP29 fail women?

23 September 2024

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Carbon & Climate

Women leading the green charge

6 September 2024

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Carbon & Climate

Breaking the green ceiling: Women in the Middle East are redefining sustainability leadership

29 May 2024

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Policy & Finance

India's intimate partner violence demands an all-in response

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