The Fourth World Conference on Women: Implications for the CGIAR

Report by Agnes Quisumbing of IFPRI on the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, September 1995. The report summarizes the activities of IFPRI in representing the CGIAR at the conference, as requested by the CGIAR Secretariat, and identifies issues in the Beijing Platform for Action that directly concern the CGIAR. These were gender and poverty, inequality in economic activities, access to resources, decision making, natural resource management, and protection of the environment. Quisumbing presented the report at CGIAR International Centers Week, October - November 1995.Presentations made by IPGRI and IFPRI at Emphasis Day organized by FAO are attached:· 'Rural Women: A Key to the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Agricultural Biodiversity' by Pablo Eyzaguirre and Ruth Raymond of IPGRI.'Women: The Key to Food Security' by Agnes Quisumbing