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  • Overview of Recent and Ongoing Projects by the Evans School Policy Analysis and Research Group on Climate Impact in Food Systems

    Researchers at the Evans School Policy Analysis and Research Group (EPAR) engage in a wide range of projects spanning agriculture, development policy, financial services, poverty reduction, gender, and measurement and evaluation. Much of EPAR’s climate-related work is part of the newly established Center for Risk and Inclusion in Food Systems (CRIFS). CRIFS focuses on generating…

  • CRIFS Technical Brief: A Food Systems Framework

    EPAR TECHNICAL BRIEF #396A Fri, 01/24/2025 AUTHORS: C. Leigh Anderson, Alex Huff, Telli Koroma, Lucero Marquez, and Rebecca Toole ABSTRACT: Existing frameworks fail to explicitly identify the role of small-scale producers (SSPs) in food systems. We adapted existing food system frameworks to develop a supply chain-focused, conceptual framework of food systems that accounted for SSPs…

  • Gendered languages

    Introduction Language is an important cultural institution in human society. The World Bank (2019) estimates that 38 percent of world languages have grammatical gender, which can be defined as a system of word classification in which words are grouped into categories or “genders”. In the last decade, gendered language has attracted increasing attention from social…