CGIAR Collaborative Platform on Gender Research, & CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees & Agroforestry present a webinar on: Rural youth and livelihood change
Webinar discussants Jessica Clendenning PhD Candidate in Human Geography at the National University of Singapore Daniela Rivas Peru Representative for Young Professionals for Agricultural Development (YPARD) Fraser Sugden Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Birmingham; outgoing Gender, Youth and Inclusion Coordinator for CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE) Jim Sumberg Research Fellow in the Rural Futures research cluster at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) Marlène Elias, webinar moderator Gender Specialist at Bioversity International and Gender Research Coordinator for CGIAR Research Program on Forest, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA)
Question 1 What are the challenges facing rural young women and men today?
Question 2 What are the roles of policy in addressing some of these issues and challenges?
Question 3 What are the roles of research for development institutions such as CGIAR in addressing these challenges?
Question 4 What are some opportunities for rural young women and men?
Question 5 What new areas of research and methods are needed to better understand the issues facing young people in rural, agricultural and forest environments?
Thank you for joining this webinar. Webinar recordings can be downloaded at: http://gender.cgiar.org/gender_events/webinars/ Upcoming webinars with the CGIAR Collaborative Platform on Gender Research: 21 November (TBC): A Framework for Measuring Women’s Empowerment, to be presented by Anouka van Eerdewijk at the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT). November (TBC): Women’s rights to forests and trees, participation in decision making, and leadership in forestry, to be presented by Esther Mwangi at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR). Visit gender.cgiar.org for more information.