Contents:
1. Call for Small Grant Award on Gender, Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security.
2. Call for Abstracts: Gender and Climate Change International Conference: "Women, Research and Action".
3. New FAO Report: SOFA 2010/11 "Women in Agriculture: Closing the Gender Gap for Development".
4. Mozambique Scientists Out to Prove Women Can Set a New Course for Agriculture in their Country and Beyond.
5. ACTION AID New PUBLICATION: "Understanding Climate Change from Below, Addressing Barriers from Above".
6. Upcoming Events.

1. Call for Small Grant Award on Gender, Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security.

The CGIAR Program on Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security (CCAFS) is seeking proposals on gender and climate change by female scientists who are citizens of and are affiliated with a university or research institute in a CCAFS country, which includes Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Bangladesh, India, or Nepal. The full guideline for applicants and application form may be requested from Ms. Josephine Njoroge at J.Njoroge@cgiar.org and will be available at: http://www.ccafs.cgiar.org/blog/call-proposals-research-project-gender-climate-change-agriculture-and-food-security

Proposals must be submitted by 1 May 2011.

To download: Call for Proposals Guide
To download: Application Form

2. Call for Abstracts: Gender and Climate Change International Conference: "Women, Research and Action", (Prato, Tuscany, 15-16 September 2011).

Gender and Climate Change is an international conference that will seek to bring together the latest research in these key areas to highlight impacts of climate change on women, and to draw together a body of knowledge for input into the 2011 United Nations Framework Convention (COP 17) and the Earth Summit 2012.

More information: http://www.med.monash.edu/glass/conference-2011/

3. New FAO Report: SOFA 2010/11 "Women in Agriculture: Closing the Gender Gap for Development".

The State of Food and Agriculture 2010-11, FAO's major annual flagship publication, provides comprehensive data and analysis of the costs of the gender gap faced by rural women in access to land, livestock, education, financial services, extension, fertilizers, tools and employment opportunities. The report provides compelling empirical estimates of the production and food security gains that could be achieved simply by closing the gender gap in agricultural input use.

The report is available at: http://www.fao.org/publications/sofa/en/

More information (English): http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/52182/icode/ More information (Spanish): http://www.fao.org/news/story/es/item/52182/icode/

4. ACTION AID New PUBLICATION: "Understanding Climate Change from Below, Addressing Barriers from Above".

The Action Aid Agency, which is an international anti-poverty entity whose aim is to fight poverty worldwide, has released a report, "Understanding Climate Change from Below, Addressing Barriers from Above" that discusses the natural calamities that are interfering with development at the community level. The Pilot Project took place from 2008 through December 2010. The report discusses the findings from the research project, analyzes the ability of communities to mobilize for climate change adaptation, and suggests future steps on the policy level to further these efforts.

To download the report: Full report (pdf)

5. Mozambique Scientists Out to Prove Women Can Set a New Course for Agriculture in their Country and Beyond.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) have encouraged women scientists to apply to the African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD) Fellowships Project. The project aims to strengthen research and leadership of these women in agriculture and rural development. Eleven women scientists in Mozambique were selected from among hundreds of applicants from 10 sub-Saharan countries.

More information: http://www.usaid.gov/press/frontlines/fl_feb11/FL_feb11_WMoz.html