Contents:
1. CGIAR Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) Call for Proposals: Climate Impacts on Food Security Components, due on May 18, 2011.
2. New Article: Women as Environmental Change Agents, by Melanne Verveer, Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues, U.S. State Department.
3. "The Climate Crisis on Our Plates", an extract from the Report "State of the World 2011.
4. New Book: Gender and Green Governance, by Dr. Bina Agarwal - Director and Professor at the University of Delhi's Institute of Economic Growth.
5. Upcoming Events.

1. Competitive call for proposals: Climate Impacts on Food Security Components.

Due on May 18 2011. The objective of this call is to understand and document the relationship between climate variability and factors that impact food security, such as production, prices, rural incomes, consumption, trade, humanitarian assistance; and the main policies and processes that are in place to mediate those impacts in East and West Africa, and South Asia.

The project will analyze and report on the relationship between historic climate variability (e.g., precipitation, temperatures) and components of food security (e.g., production and prices of key staple food commodities, rural incomes, consumption, trade, and humanitarian assistance).

More information: http://www.ccafs.cgiar.org/content/careers-and-calls#dailyMT

Download the full call for proposals and the application procedure.

2. Article: Women as Environmental Change Agents, by Melanne Verveer, Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues, U.S. State Department.

Melanne Verveer, Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues at the U.S. State Department, prepared this article considering whether in promoting conservation, combating climate change, protecting biodiversity and vital ecosystems, securing water access, or reducing indoor air pollution, women are developing and effecting innovative solutions to critical environmental problems.

To read the article: http://blogs.state.gov/index.php/site/entry/earth_day_women

3. "The Climate Crisis on Our Plates", an extract from the Report "State of the World 2011.

This is an extract published with permission, from the Worldwatch Institute's "State of the World 2011"Report, in which author Anna Lappé highlights the positive role food systems can and should play in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Mrs. Lappé also stresses how consumers can help providing market demand for climate-friendly foods, by choosing to eat foods from farms that use more environmentally sustainable practices, reducing consumption of highly processed foods, and cutting back - or cutting out - meat and dairy products that come from factory farms.

To read this article: The Climate Crisis on Our Plates

4. New Book: Gender and Green Governance, by Dr. Bina Agarwal - Director and Professor at the University of Delhi's Institute of Economic Growth.

This book looks at the impact women have in conserving natural resources. Most research focuses on the near absence of women at these institutions, but no one really discusses whether increasing women's presence will have an impact, and what that impact would be, for conservation. It provides a link between environmental economics, politics and gender.