Gender - Concepts 
             
              Gender and Food security - FAO 
              Female labour force in Agriculture 
              Gender responsive budgeting 
Institutes handling Gender issues 
              
                Office of the Special Advisor on Gender Issues and Advacement of Women (OSAGI) 
                The Office's main   objective is to promote and strengthen the effective implementation of the   Millennium Declaration, the Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action of   the Fourth World Conference on Women (FWCW) held in Beijing in 1995 and the   Outcome Document of the special session of the General Assembly on   Beijing.This Office was created on 1 March 1997. 
              Address: Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues   and Advancement of Women, OSAGI 
                  United Nations, Two United Nations Plaza,  
                  44th St. 12th Floor, NY, NY   10017 
                  URL: http://www.un.org/osagi
                  
                    
                International  Centre for Research on Women (ICRW) 
                                  Founded  in 1976, ICRW has earned a reputation as the leading international institution  on gender and development. 
                  ICRW  tackles the complexities of the world's most pressing problems — poverty,  hunger and disease — by demonstrating that a focus on women and gender is  necessary for lasting social and economic change.   
               
                For more information  log on to  http://www.icrw.org/ 
National Gender Resource Centre in Agriculture (NGRCA) 
                The National  Gender Resource Centre in Agriculture (NGRCA) is a focal point for convergence  of all gender related issues in agriculture and is to serve as an epicenter to  coordinate and synergize various efforts aiming at women’s empowerment though  agriculture.  
                  The NGRCA  besides undertaking and supporting training, research and advocacy to  mainstream gender issues in agriculture and natural resource management aims at  forging effective functional linkages with other related departments, agencies  and institutions & is mandated to ensure that the policies and programmes  in agriculture are fully engendered & reflect the national commitment to  empowerment of women. 
                   
                Directorate of Research on Women in Agriculture (DRWA) 
                DRWA,Bhubaneswar is mandated to identify gender  issues and test appropriateness of available farm-technologies/ programmes /  policies with women perspective for promoting gender mainstreaming in research  and extension for empowerment of farmwomen and capacity building of scientists,  planners and policy makers to respond to the needs of the farm women". Earlier it was called as National Research Center for Women in Agriculture. 
                 
                Uttara Devi Resource Centre for Gender development (UDRC), MSSRF 
It began functioning in October 1996 to  
                
                  
                    
                       - promote the incorporation of gender issues and the concept of gender equity in   research and action related to development with special emphasis on rural and          agricultural development and   | 
                     
                    
                    
                       - encourage, develop and maintain gender perspectives in   all activities and programmes undertaken by the Foundation  | 
                     
                    
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                For more information log on to http://www.mssrf.org/iec/602/index.htm 
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