Dear friends and colleagues, Welcome to the ninth edition of the FTA Gender Integration Team Newsletter: Focus on Gender. In this issue we would like to commemorate International Women´s Day.
This year´s theme is ´the working world of women´. In line with this, the newsletter features a research study on gender and oil palm production and two exciting videos telling the story of the female oil palm farmers in Indonesia. In this issue you can also find an invitation to our up coming side event during the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW 2017) in New York (March 13-24). And, as usual, you can find our latest news, publications, updates and upcoming events.
Please feel free to share with us any gender and forests related resources, tools or information you may have. Your comments and feedback on the newsletter are welcome and encouraged. To get in touch, please email Ana Maria Paez Valencia.
Warm regards,
The FTA Gender Integration Team |
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| Hear from Magdalena Pandan, a 35-year-old oil palm plantation worker in West Kalimantan, Indonesia, who rises before dawn every day to carry out her duties toward her job, her family and her crop lands. Read more |
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| Hear from CIFOR scientist Bimbika Sijapati Basnett on her team’s research into issues related to gender and women in the expansion of the oil palm industry in Indonesia. Read more |
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Featured ProjectGender in Oil Palm
Examining gender gaps in Indonesia's palm oil industry
By Bimbika Sijapati Basnett and Leona Liu (CIFOR) 
Oil palm expansion threatens to displace local women from the lands where they cultivate their food crops, and this way help to feed their families. Furthermore, the women´s work contributions to oil palm production are largely unrecognized, and in the rare cases that they are, women are overrepresented in the ‘casual worker’ category, with limited entitlement to decent working conditions. Finally, gender issues are not considered in policies, certification bodies and regulations in the sector. Read more |
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Focus on Gender Research
This is a brief update on selected gender-related research that is ongoing within the CGIAR research programme on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA).
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 Celebrating gender and biodiversity – On the occasion of International Women’s Day, Bioversity international has launched a series of factsheets on “Creating mutual benefits: examples of gender and biodiversity outcomes from Bioversity International’s research”. Read more
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We would like invite you to join our discussion on:
´The impacts of commercialisation in agriculture and forestry on women’s decent employment´.
Kindly remember to register for the NGO CSW61 Forum here. | 
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