Mark Your Calendars: Gender, IFIs and the Global Food Crisis Panel Discussion

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Allison Strype

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From: Gender Action <info@genderaction.org>
Date: Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 12:15 PM
Subject: Mark Your Calendars: Gender, IFIs and the Global Food Crisis Panel Discussion
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Gender, IFIs and the Global Food Crisis

 

Gender Action, ActionAid and the Henrich Boll Foundation are hosting a a panel to highlight the gendered impacts of IFI investments in agriculture and rural development. The panel will also highlight the policy implications of these investments within the context of the latest global food crisis, which has pushed an additional 44 million people into poverty.   

 

Women, who account for more than two thirds of the world's poor and the majority of the world's small-scale farmers, bear the brunt of rising food prices and growing food insecurity in developing countries. Despite women's critical role in food production, International Financial Institutions (IFIs) have failed to translate gender-mainstreaming rhetoric into significant action. 

 

Panel speakers will discuss the ways in which IFI investments exacerbate food insecurity and poverty in developing countries and thereby undermine the health and livelihoods of women and girls. The panel will invite discussion on how civil society can advocate for rural development and agriculture investments that meaningfully involve women and girls as stakeholders and equally benefit women and men, boys and girls.

 

Featured Panelists

Marie Clark-Brill, ActionAid

Elizabeth Arend, Gender Action

More Speakers to be Announced 

 

Date

April 12, 12 p.m.

 

Location 

Gavi Alliance

1776 I St, NW

Suite 600

Washington, DC 20006

 

Lunch will be served. Please rsvp to info@genderaction.org by Monday, April 11.

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