September 1, 2023GEM Digest of the Month - Published monthly since December 2009 Contents

• The provision of incentives to investees upon achieving gender targets, including increased participation of women and youth in the value chain, climate-smart agriculture (CSA) trainings, and the upskilling of women and youth extensionists. [...] After the COVID-19 lockdown in India in the year 2020, most of the factories were shut for months, and the male workers were jobless. [...] But what does the evidence show about the involvement of men and boys in the practice of FGM/C, and the effectiveness of interventions that engage them? Should men and boys be implicated as a priority, and if so, how? This post presents some answers. [...] But in mathematics, applied and computational mathematics and statistics, there was a small reduction in female participation between 2009 and 2019, according to a special bulletin released in May by the Gender and Diversity Commission of the Brazilian Societies of Mathematics (SBM) and Applied and Computational Mathematics (SBMAC). [...] It is based on "Responsible investments in agriculture and food systems: A practical handbook for parliamentarians and parliamentary advisors" published by the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) in 2020.