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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.
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.
Progress is fragile and 2026 must be the year of action and accountability on gender rights.
Manufacturing
Can the fashion industry adapt to a warming world?
COP30 agreed to triple adaptation finance, but the fashion industry needs adaptation measures now.
All #women Opinion
18 December 2025
Policy & Finance
India’s climate diplomacy must account for domestic inequalities
15 November 2025
Policy & Finance
Indigenous women leaders at COP30: Listen to us as equals
22 July 2025
Policy & Finance
Financing for development must account for women
Policy & Finance
India’s digital divide and the consequent welfare bias
Policy & Finance
Ahead of COP30, environmentalists risk freedom to defend nature
9 July 2025
Policy & Finance
Global rollback of women's rights puts SDGs at risk
19 June 2025
Policy & Finance
Indigenous knowledge is a living science, stop stealing it
6 May 2025
Policy & Finance
Street vendors are workers – they should have workers’ rights
30 April 2025
Policy & Finance
Fake ‘threats’: How trans issues become a weapon
16 April 2025
Policy & Finance
Philanthropy in an era of declining development aid
24 March 2025
Policy & Finance
Aid cuts could erase women from public life
11 December 2024
Policy & Finance
Did COP29 fail women?
23 September 2024
Carbon & Climate
Women leading the green charge
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Carbon & Climate
Helping women adapt to extreme heat helps us all
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