Today nearly a third of the world's population does not have secure rights to the lands and forests they customarily claim. Secure indigenous and community land rights are often a pre-requisite...
A gender lens was applied to a wide range of agricultural research topics in one of the parallel sessions on Thursday morning (Sep 26th). As is often the case at the gender related discussions, a female dominated audience filled the room and speakers and facilitator were all women. However, as the session commenced about a quarter of seats were occupied by men.