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Women are the backbone of the agri-food system, yet gender norms still hold them back. On #InternationalWomensDay, ICARDA is working to #AccelerateAction in 🇪🇹🇲🇦 with gender-transformative approaches, breaking gender barriers & promoting inclusive agricultural communities! 🌾👩‍🌾

Why Palestine is a feminist issue: a reckoning with Western feminism in a time of genocide #IWD #FreePalestine tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

👩‍🌾 Women are the backbone of the agri-food systems, yet gender norms still hold them back. On #InternationalWomensDay, ICARDA is working to #AccelerateAction in Ethiopia and Morocco through gender-transformative approaches, breaking gender barriers! 👇 on.cgiar.org/3QOZR2a

👩🏾‍🌾 Women drive agrifood systems yet remain underrepresented in shaping their policies. On the heels of #IWD2025, explore our WEAGov India Pilot Study which offers key insights to strengthen women’s voice in governance. Explore: bit.ly/41V5YIA #AccelerateAction

#Employment The Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Media Studies (SOAM) at the American University of Beirut (AUB) invites applications for the Altaf S. Al Sabah Visiting Chair in Women and Societal Development Studies mesana.org/resources-and-…

MountainHER The Workshop on Economic & Social Empowerment of Women in Rural Areas is happening now! Featuring case studies from #Tunisia, #Lebanon and #Morocco by #INRAT. PRIMA Program Mediterranean Partnership 🇪🇺 #RuralDevelopment #GenderEquality mondher ben Salem Andrea Visioni Filippo Bassi Dina Najjar Rola El Amil

🌾👨🏾‍🌾👩🏽‍🌾 In Ethiopia, farmers prefer local lentils to “improved” ones. Why? ✨ Taste, easy cooking, strong demand > yield 📢 Study ICARDA Shiv Agrawal urges breeding that hears all voices—esp. women’s 🔗 doi.org/10.1371/journa… #Lentils #InclusiveBreeding #FoodSecurity 🌍

لم يتبقَ سوى بضعة أيام على انطلاق المنتدى العربي للتنمية المستدامة #AFSD2025!✨ ترقّبوا التغطية المباشرة، وأبرز لحظات النقاشات الملهمة، حيث يجتمع صانعو قرار وخبراء لدفع عجلة التقدم نحو تحقيق أهداف التنمية المستدامة. ℹ️للاطلاع على جدول الأعمال: bit.ly/AFSD2025ar

#AFSD2025 is only a few days away!✨ Stay tuned for live updates, key moments, and powerful insights as policymakers, experts, and regional leaders come together to accelerate progress on the #SDGs in the #Arab region. ℹ️Check the agenda here: bit.ly/AFSD2025

#Touchdown Beirut 🛬🇱🇧 Thrilled 💓to be part of the Arab Forum for Sustainable Development #AFSD & the #UNFSS+4 Arab Regional Meeting ICARDA Contributing to setting the scene on feminist 💪🏿and inclusive food systems + reviewing #SDG5 ESCWA. Opening remarks by🌟Lebanese Presidency

ESCWA FAO in Near East and North Africa FAO in Lebanon UN Food Systems Coordination Hub From recognizing women's roles & boosting access to tech and training, to youth engagement, collectives, and gender-smart innovations — ICARDA outlined how to drive inclusive change in our agrifood systems for greater #GenderEquality. #AFSD2025

Spotlight Thursday 🔦: Shedding the light on our sub-awardees, ICARDA’s project led by Dr. Dina Najjar . From poor governance to limited market access, challenges across cooperatives in 🇱🇧,🇲🇦,🇹🇳 are real but so are the solutions. Today’s workshop is dedicated towards

🇱🇧#LARI Major workshop Co-drafting policy recommendations, harvesting results after years of research #F2R #Medwealth ICARDA MountainHER with large team from the General Directorate of #Cooperatives Dina Najjar Hajer Ben ghanem

"The status of gender and development programming in Jordan: still “adding women and stirring?”" our work examining gender strategies and practice for 23 organizations in Jordan 🇯🇴is finally out Social Sci Western University @WesternU ICARDA tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

لي بعدو مش قابل إنو الدنيا تغيّرت، يتذكّر هيدا الشي: بـ٧ أيار، الطيران الإماراتي غط بمطار بيروت، والطيران الإيراني بعده محظور… العودة إلى الطبيعة هو اليوم المجيد الحقيقي. For anyone still in denial that the world has changed, let this sink in: On May 7, Emirati airlines

Gender & Development's latest issue on 'Transforming land and water rights, improving rural livelihoods, and carving just responses to the climate crisis' is out now! Read the new Issue here: tandfonline.com/toc/cgde20/cur…

What do multifunctional landscapes mean for Tunisia’s Mediterranean agro-pastoral regions? ICARDA, we’re co-creating narratives that connect land, people & policy to combat degradation and build socioecological resilience gains. #MFL_SienceProgram #LandDegradation

With the participation of the Tunisian team 🇹🇳, an international workshop was held in Constantine 🇩🇿 on May 4–5, 2025, as part of the @MEDWHEALTH project. 🌾Food innovation 👩‍🌾Involving women through rural cooperatives @PRIMA #INRAT #INRAA #FoodInnovation #RuralWomen #Agriculture

FAO, WFP and #Lebanon Ministry of Agriculture report: 1 in 5 people in Lebanon – around 1.17 million facing crisis or emergency levels of acute food insecurity between April and June 2025. While this figure reflects gradual recovery compared to figures from earlier this year,