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SDG 5: Gender Equality

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Small-scale family farming, an age-old model and sustainable solution for the Global South

Family farming, an age-old way of working the land, also embodies a tangible future for sustainable farming in the Global South. It a crucial and promising sector, in light of the number of farmers involved, production volumes, surface areas cultivated, well-established growing practices and...

Feminist struggles in times of pandemic: lessons from rural India

Covid-19, women take the lead

In India, Senegal and Brazil, women in lockdown are involved in solidarity initiatives. Preparing and distributing meals, transporting medicines to the most vulnerable, making and donating masks, they mobilized throughout the health crisis by managing to adapt to the restriction measures.

Development: the place of gender

At school, in their family relationships, in hospital or in court, women in the Global South face inequalities on a daily basis. Despite the significant progress observed in the areas of education, healthcare and legislation, they are fewer in number than boys in universities and salaried employment...
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Discrimination against and abnormally high death rate of young girls in India

Research by demographers reveal the magnitude of the abnormally high rate linked to gender discrimination against young girls in some regions of India. It shows a nation geographically divided over this phenomenon and identifies the major socio-cultural factors related thereto.