Gender Equity through Agriculture 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.
Latest News
October 25, 2019
New project offers circular-economy solutions for refugee and host communities in East Africa
A new three-year project that will pilot and scale locally viable and gender-responsive circular-economy solutions was launched on 24 September in Nairobi, Kenya.
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December 20, 2018
Unique Graduate Student Cohort Will Explore Gender and Agriculture
Faculty in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences are spearheading an initiative that will provide selected doctoral students with the opportunity for extensive study on gender and its relationship to agricultural production.
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August 28, 2018
Farmer Field School addresses food insecurity, gender inequality in Honduras
Studying for her dual-title doctoral degree in rural sociology and in international agriculture and development at Penn State, Paige Castellanos learned about the plight of families living in western Honduras, where many eke out a living in an economy marked by high poverty rates and subsistence agriculture.
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July 17, 2018
Working together for global good: Penn State, Oxfam join forces
Developing lasting solutions to the problems of poverty, hunger and social injustice is the cornerstone of a new partnership between Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences and Oxfam America, the U.S. affiliate of Oxfam, the global organization working to end the injustice of poverty in 90 countries around the world.
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