*PRGA Newsletter issue No. 31 March 2008
Briefing Paper 38 - Untangling links between trade, poverty and gender
Latin American experience shows women need support to benefit from trade liberalisation
Links between trade, growth and poverty reduction are under global scrutiny by a broad range of policy and civil societyactors, as are gender dimensions of trade liberalisation. Proponents assume that growth will benefit women, given the disproportionate growth of their employment in export-orientated, labour-intensive light manufacturing.
Women hold key to reaching development goals – Migiro
Efforts to meet international development goals must focus on empowering women, Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro said last night in a speech delivered at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.
Call for Papers: Women and Agriculture
Submission deadline: May 1, 2008
For this special issue the journal invite international, transnational, and comparative studies of women and agriculture; submissions that engage feminist theoretical and historical analyses of women and agriculture; and analyses of racial, ethnic, and gendered dimensions of agriculture. They seek manuscripts on women and sustainable agriculture, on women in leadership and decision-making positions, and in feminist science studies pertaining to women’s knowledge and changing agricultural practices.
Une Génétique de Pair à Pair ? L'émergence de la Sélection Participative C. Bonneuil et E. Demeulenaere
Si dans des domaines comme les disciplines naturalistes ou l’astronomie, de vigoureuses pratiques amateurs ont survécu à la professionnalisation amorcée au milieu du XIXe siècle et prospéré au XXe siècle, la génétique constitue, dans les décennies qui suivent la seconde guerre mondiale, une entreprise scientifique quasi-entièrement réservée aux scientifiques spécialisés des institutions publiques et privées. Elle est emblématique d’un type de « science confinée » que Michel Callon et ses collègues ont opposé à un type « science de plein air » (Callon et al., 2001). Pourtant, ces dernières années, avec l’essor au Sud et au Nord de la « sélection participative », l’amélioration des plantes a rejoint la liste des domaines de recherche et d’innovation (instrumentation médicale, informatique, matériel sportif de pointe, étude et gestion des espaces naturels, etc.) où la mobilisation des savoirs des amateurs et usagers est devenue un facteur clé de réussite (von Hippel, 2005). Cet article analyse cette mutation.
Girls Count: A Global Investment & Action Agenda
A new report by the Center for Global Development finds that fostering opportunities for girls in the developing world is "the right strategy for economic development." The report highlights the systematic disadvantages faced by girls and women in developing countries in areas ranging from health, education, and nutrition to workforce participation and the burden of household tasks. According to the authors, investing in young women and girls in developing regions must be a top priority for governments, multilateral agencies and the private sector.
WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT Rethinking Impact: Capturing the Complexity of Poverty and Change
March 26-28, 2008, CIAT headquarters, Cali, Colombia
The objective of the workshop is to draw from the experiences of professionals from multiple disciplines of natural and social sciences regarding evaluation of research aimed at poverty reduction, social inclusion and sustainable development. We are particularly interested in new methods and metrics that have been developed and tested in ongoing evaluations and impact assessment efforts supporting learning.
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