Gender Equity through Agricultural Research and Education (GEARE)

GEARE is a network of interdisciplinary scholars and researchers that initiate and respond to the new opportunities for research, instruction, and evidence-based outreach that address the intersections of gender with agricultural and environmental sciences.

Our Vision: To promote food security, resilience, and improved livelihoods, through global gender equity (in key areas of agriculture, energy and environment).

Our Mission: We research innovative and sustainable gender integrated development practices. We build gender focused capacity of scholars, practitioners, and producers. We build trans-disciplinary, cross agency, and geographically diverse networks.

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July 30, 2024

Farm families' childcare challenges impacting farm businesses, research suggests

New study shows how childcare difficulties have wide, rippling effects on farm enterprises. In the study, over three quarters of farm families with children under 18 reported that they had experienced childcare challenges, largely due to cost and availability, which means tha­t they often must cobble together multiple paid and unpaid childcare options. Credit: pixdeluxe/Getty Images / Penn State. Creative Commons

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May 3, 2024

Research Report: Managing the Water-Energy-Food-Gender Nexus

Between Subsistence and Sustainability on Isla Fuerte, Colombia

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April 10, 2024

Policy Brief: Women Grape and Wine Producers

Stephanie Buechler (Ag Sciences Global), Kathy Kelley (Plant Sciences), and Michaela Centinari (Plant Sciences), together with research assistants Zoelie Rivera and Sarah Peachey, developed a policy brief based on the findings of their interdisciplinary, applied project, 'Women Grape and Wine Producers in Pennsylvania, USA and Mendoza, Argentina: Meeting Sustainability Challenges through Networks.'

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March 5, 2024

Ag Sciences Global to host a four-part virtual food-security seminar series

The college’s Ag Sciences Global unit received a Gilman International Scholarship Grant from the U.S. Department of State to present the Gilman Global Food Security Virtual Seminar, which will be held beginning at 1 p.m. on Feb. 9 and 23, March 29 and April 26.

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