In 2020, CIFOR-ICRAF continued to champion equity and equality across its research projects, including several that focus specifically on issues facing women in forest landscapes and agroforestry. Highlights include:

• research on gender-transformative approaches to women’s land rights in Kyrgyzstan, Uganda, Bangladesh, The Gambia, Colombia and Ethiopia – supported by IFAD;

• an experimental study in northern Ghana on the effects of gender transformative approaches on smallholder households' resilience and capacity to sustainably engage in land restoration;

• a collaborative study across several CGIAR Research Programs on the ‘feminization of agriculture’, exploring the gendered impacts of migration on small-scale farming in Vietnam and Kenya;

• a guide to promote reflexive and adaptive learning processes in multistakeholder forums for gender-transformational change – supported by RRI;

• ongoing research into identifying and addressing gendered vulnerabilities under climate change in the shea value chain in Burkina Faso and Ghana – supported by IDRC.

Gender experts also continued their work on integrating gender into the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)’s post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework through engaging in a virtual expert workshop hosted by CBD, UN Women and UN Environment, and developing targeted submissions to inform the CBD Gender Plan of Action and the post-2020 monitoring framework.