The SANREM CRSP goal is to support decision-makers to think and act in a gender-sensitive manner and to mainstream gender in all issues related to Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management. SANREM believes that these long-term goals cannot be fully met until gender issues become totally visible and explicit throughout our reasoning, acting, and sensing in the world. The SANREM CRSP landscape systems approach demonstrates how linkages between gender, biophysical, technology, governance, economic, social, environmental, and globalization factors can be used to achieve sustainable development.

The following tools are designed to enhance decision makers' ability to attain gender equity.

• Gender workshop, SANREM CRSP 2008 Annual Meeting
  
  
• Guidance for integrating gender into SA and NRM
  • Principles for integrating gender into agriculture-based projects (pdf)
  • SANREM CRSP principles for integrating gender (pdf)
  • SANREM gender assessment guidance (pdf)
  • Gender and community conservation (pdf)
  • USAID Women in Development website (link)
  
  
• "Kitchenspace: Women, Fiestas, and Everyday Life in Central Mexico," a new book by SANREM Gender Equity Coordinator Maria Elisa Christie
  
  
• Key publications and articles on gender and development
  
  
• Other selected articles highlighting gender issues

The Management Entity can also provide training to ensure gender-sensitive criteria in its own programs.

Gender, development, and global change

At a June 2007 international conference in La Paz, Bolivia, Maria Elisa Christie, gender equity coordinator for SANREM CRSP, spoke on gender, development, and global change. Click here to see her presentation, "The Importance of Gender in the Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Collaborative Research Support Program." To see the presentation in Spanish, click here.

Online knowledgebase

All SANREM CRSP gender-related programs and activities contribute to the SANREM Knowledgebase (SKB). More materials to assist in making gender-informed decisions are available at SANREM Knowledgebase

Women in International Development at Virginia Tech

The Women in International Development program seeks to ensure a gender-sensitive approach to research and development projects globally, and to raise awareness about gender and development issues at Virginia Tech. More information is available on the Virginia Tech WID home page. Contact Christie at mechristie@vt.edu