CRRI-CABI collaboration seeks inclusive solutions for crop loss assessment in rice farming systems
CABI has launched a landmark collaboration with the Central Rice Research Institute (CRRI) to assess the socio-economic impact of crop losses in rice ecosystems in Odisha, India with a special focus on how these losses affect men and women differently. This initiative is part of CABI’s Global Burden of Crop Loss programme, which aims to…
CABI and CRRI explore gender gap of crop loss impact at Odisha, India workshop
Why do men, women and youth experience crop loss differently? That question took centre stage at a stakeholder workshop in India, organized by the Central Rice Research Institute (CRRI) and CABI’s Global Burden of Crop Loss. Crop loss remains a pressing global challenge, with up to 40% of crops lost before harvest each year due…
Empowering future young scientists: Reflections from CABI’s Summer Internship Programme in Pakistan
CABI’s Summer Internship Programme for 2025 in Pakistan has helped 30 young future scientists, from universities across the country, further their understanding of sustainable crop pest management for greater food security.
Empowering the next generation: Strategies for youth-inclusive agricultural training and engagement
Ahead of International Youth Day on Tuesday 12 August 2025, Deogratius J. Magero, CABI’s Youth Manager, outlines seven key strategies – drawing from CABI’s Youth Engagement Strategy – to help ensure agricultural training and engagement are truly youth inclusive.
Forging a new approach to agriculture research from a gender lens
While working with women farmers across Africa for the past 17 years, Dr Lora Forsythe, lead of the Gender and Social Difference research group at the Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich in the United Kingdom, heard a common refrain “Many different women in diverse contexts told me they struggled with poor soil,” Dr Forsythe…
How can we empower women farmers to address climate change?
Climate change poses significant threats to the food security and livelihoods of women farmers writes Sandra Phelps, Gender Manager at CABI ahead of International Women’s Day on Saturday 8 March 2025. There are an estimated 215 million women smallholders globally. They account for nearly one-third of food production worldwide. Despite this critical role, women are…
Meet CABI’s fall armyworm researcher Dora Shimbwambwa one of Bill Gates’s ‘Heroes in the Field’
Meet CABI researcher Dora Shimbwambwa who has been recognised as one of Bill Gates’s ‘Heroes in the Field’ for her efforts as part of a project focused on the village-based biological control of the potentially devastating fall armyworm pest in Zambia.
Celebrating Rural Women’s Day: Stories of empowerment, entrepreneurship and resilience from the fields
This week, we celebrated Rural Women’s Day (15 October) – an important opportunity to mark women’s valuable contribution to agriculture. The UN states that women make up, on average, over 40% of the agricultural labour force. In some countries in Africa and Asia, this figure is much higher. In Ghana, for example, women produce 70%…
Overcoming social norms to boost women farmers’ access to agricultural advisory services
On International Women’s Day, we must celebrate women’s progress in agriculture. Women are embracing agricultural services and training. They are empowering themselves and becoming skilled farmers in their own right, writes Sandra Phelps, Gender Manager, CABI.
The climate crisis disproportionately affects women and girls. We need to act on climate change and gender!
The climate crisis does not affect everyone equally. Women and girls are more likely to experience the greatest impacts of climate change. According to the UN Environment Programme, for example, 80% of people displaced by climate change are women. And in an article from 2022, the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of…