Food systems crisis: Strengthening gender equality and resiliency
Dr. Hazel Malapit
Hazel Malapit is a senior research coordinator at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). She coordinates research, training, and technical assistance on the implementation of the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI), including refinement and adaptations of the tools for project-level use, and for capturing empowerment across the value chain. She manages and coordinates the integration of gender, equity, and empowerment into the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH), and conducts research on gender, women’s empowerment, agriculture, health, and nutrition issues. She is co-Principal Investigator for the Gender, Agriculture & Assets Program (GAAP) (Phase 2), and leads the Methods Module for the CGIAR GENDER Platform. Before joining IFPRI, she held the Herman Postdoctoral Fellowship in Gender and Economics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2009-2010, and conducted research on gender, labor market and data issues at the World Bank’s Gender and Development unit (PRMGE). She received her MA in Economics from the University of the Philippines, and her PhD in Economics from American University.
Dr. Mary Peabody
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Mary Peabody is the director of the Women's Agricultural Network, as well as the UVM Extension Specialist in Community Resources and Economic Development. She is a regular instructor for Growing Places, Taking Stock and a variety of workshop topics on business planning, marketing and labor management. She also offers several online classes each year. Mary is currently serving on the USDA Advisory Committee for Beginning Farmers and Ranchers.
Her passions include growing things—both plants and animals, learning new skills, traveling, and teaching. Working as part of the WAgN team from its beginning is one of her proudest accomplishments. The people she has met through the program inspire her daily with their ongoing commitment to agriculture and community building.
Masculinities and engaging men in conversations on gender equality and women’s empowerment
Dr. Gary Barker
Gary Barker, PhD, is a leading global voice in engaging men and boys in advancing gender equality and positive masculinities. He is the CEO and founder of Promundo, which has worked for 20 years in more than 40 countries. Beginning in low-income areas of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Promundo’s approaches have been incorporated into ministries of health and education around the world. Promundo is a Global Consortium with members in Brazil, the US, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Portugal.
Gary is co-founder of MenCare, a global campaign working in 45 countries to promote men’s involvement as caregivers, and co-founder of MenEngage, a global alliance of more than 700 NGOs. He created and leads the International Men and Gender Equality Survey (IMAGES), the largest ever survey of men’s attitudes and behaviors related to violence, fatherhood, and gender equality. He is a co-author of the 2015 and 2017 State of the World's Fathers reports. He has advised the UN, the World Bank, numerous national governments, and key international foundations and corporations on strategies to engage men and boys in promoting gender equality.
In 2017 he was named by Apolitical as one of the 20 most influential people in gender policy around the world. He is an Ashoka Fellow and received the Voices of Solidarity Award from Vital Voices for his work to engage men for gender equality. He holds a PhD. in Developmental Psychology.
Laxman Belbase, M.Sc
Laxman is a social worker and gender justice activist, with Master of Science degree and more than 17 years’ experience in program development, implementation and advocacy in the field of gender equality, child rights and social justice at national, regional and global levels.
Prior to joining MenEngage, Laxman worked for Save the Children Sweden for seven years as Global Gender & Health Advisor, based in Stockholm, and represented Save the Children on the MenEngage Global Governance Board. Laxman is a founding core group member of MenEngage Alliance in Nepal, and has contributed to the strengthening of the Alliance in various capacities at national, regional and global levels, including by coordinating MenEngage Alliance in South Asia (2009-2013).
Having worked with national, regional and global organisations, Laxman brings his multi-cultural experiences to the areas of gender equality, child protection, violence prevention, engaging boys and men for social justice, fatherhood, sexual and reproductive health & rights, comprehensive sexuality education and human rights advocacy across Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
The colonial development experiment nexus and its gender, race and class impacts in the Caribbean
Dr. Tami Navarro
Tami Navarro is the Associate Director of the Barnard Center for Research on Women (BCRW) and Editor of the journal Scholar and Feminist Online. She holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from Duke University, and has held positions at Rutgers University, Columbia University, and Wesleyan University.
Her research has been supported by the Mellon Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the American Anthropological Association, and the Ford Foundation. Tami Navarro has published work in Cultural Anthropology, American Anthropologist, Transforming Anthropology, Small Axe Salon, The Caribbean Writer, Social Text, and The Global South. She serves on the Board of the St. Croix Foundation and is a member of the Editorial Board for the journal Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism. Tami Navarro is the co-host of the podcast Writing Home: American Voices from the Caribbean, and she is currently completing a manuscript entitled Virgin Capital: Neoliberal Development in the US Virgin Islands, to be published by the State University of New York Press.
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Halimah Deshong
Halimah Deshong is currently Deputy Permanent Representative of the Permanent Mission of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) to the United Nations, where she is on secondment from her post as Head of the Institute for Gender & Development Studies: Nita Barrow Unit, at The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus.
An experienced feminist researcher, she specializes in gendered and gender-based violence, feminist methodologies, anti-/decolonial feminisms, qualitative interviewing, and the analysis of talk and text. She is the co-editor (with Professor Kamala Kempadoo) of Methodologies in Caribbean Research on Gender & Sexuality (2020) and is currently completing another book length manuscript on violence, the coloniality of gender and change. Her scholarly work is published in a wide range of peer-reviewed academic journals and books. She is joint editor of four special issues on Feminist Methodologies; Men and Masculinities; and Gender, Sexuality and Feminism in the Caribbean.
Halimah has advised Caribbean governments on gender-based violence policies and laws, is the author of the Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) National Gender-based Violence Action Plan and has jointly designed a GBV/HFLE curriculum for post-secondary school students in SVG (with Dr. Tonya Haynes). She was also the lead researcher and author of the qualitative component of the UN Women/CARICOM/Caribbean Development Bank Women’s Health Survey on violence against women in Grenada. At present, she is SVG’s expert, on the United Nations Security Council, on Women, Peace and Security; Children and Armed Conflict; Youth, Peace and Security, the Protection of Civilians; as well as the situations in Mali, Somalia, Guinea-Bissau, and West Africa and the Sahel. Animating her teaching, public service, scholarship and outreach is a concern for ending the enduring effects of complex systems of violence.
Women, land, and power: How does gender intersect with agricultural decision-making and conservation in the U.S.?
Dr. Angie Carter
Dr. Angie Carter is a rural sociologist studying agriculture, food systems, gender, and social change. She serves as a board member of the Women, Food and Agriculture Network and on the coordinating team of the Western Upper Peninsula Food Systems Collaborative. She lives in Michigan's Upper Peninsula where she works as an assistant professor in the Department of Social Sciences at Michigan Tech University.
Dr. Gabrielle Roesch-McNally
Gabrielle leads AFT’s national initiative to ensure women landowners have access to resources, technical advice, and policy facilitators to ensure they lead in conservation and building resilient agrifood systems. Before joining AFT, Gabrielle worked as a fellow with the USDA Northwest Climate Hub where she conducted social science research to better understand producer decision making in sustainable agrifood systems, particularly in the context of climate change adaptation and mitigation. Gabrielle earned a Master of Science from the University of Washington School of Environmental and Forestry Science, where she focused on environmental economics and a Doctorate in sociology and sustainable agriculture from Iowa State University where she worked as one of the lead social scientists on a large-scale interdisciplinary USDA-NIFA project as part of her dissertation research.
