December 1, 2023GEM Digest of the Month - Published monthly since December 2009 Contents

The revolutionary Savings and Credit Cooperative Society (SACCO) is increasingly putting land rights in the hands of women and facilitating access to the tools needed to build climate-resilient farming and food systems. [...] In Chiquimula and other areas, they are turning to drought-resistant bean varieties bred to contain more zinc and iron to stem malnutrition, and are learning to grow other vegetables, raising chickens and pigs, and even becoming fish farmers and beekeepers to have alternative sources of food and income. [...] Innovative Gender Bond Series Uplifts Rural Women to Drive Climate Action in Asia To unlock the potential productivity of women smallholder farmers, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) par. [...] For comparison, a 2019 study found that the public-health faculties at the 15 top-ranked universities in the world for the social sciences and public health — all in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada — were composed of between roughly 33% and 54% women. [...] A few – Australia, Canada, Malta, and the UK – began processes leading to decriminalisation in the 1960s and 1970s, followed by New Zealand in the 1980s and the Bahamas, Cyprus and South Africa in the 1990s.