BIG DATA Socio-Economy Community of Practice – Work Plan 2020
Scaling community seedbanks and farmer seed enterprises in East and Southern Africa: Workshop Highlights, 2-4 October 20...
The Scaling Community Seed Banks and Farmer Seed Enterprises in East and Southern Africa workshop was held in Entebbe, Uganda on 2-4 October 2019, to share experiences about community seed bank management and to develop national pilot scaling proposals. The workshop was organized under the umbrella of the Resilient Seed Systems for Climate Change A...
Gendered assessment of livestock feeding system in northern and southern Burkina Faso
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Bridging youth and gender studies to analyse rural young women and men's livelihood pathways in Central Uganda
Many development countries are currently undergoing major demographic shifts as the percentage of young people of the total population rapidly increases. This shift is associated with high rates of migration, unemployment and instability. In policy discourses, engaging youth in commercial agricultural is often presented as a measure to control or e...
Generando evidencia sobre la Agricultura Sostenible Adaptada al Clima con perspectiva de género para informar políticas ...
Esta presentación muestra la importancia de incluir una perspectiva de género en las intervenciones Agricultura Sostenible Adaptada al Clima (ASAC), teniendo en cuenta mayor proporción de la población rural son mujeres, la creciente femininización de la agricultura en Centro América y su vulnerabilidad al cambio climático. En ese sentido, es fundam...
Youth opportunity spaces in low-emission dairy development in Kenya: Research findings and policy recommendations
The dairy sector in Kenya produces over 4 billion liters of milk per year and supports 1.3 million producer households with a vital contribution to incomes and nutrition. However, total national production fails to meet demand. There is a need for increased efforts to support value chain development growth in the sector. In addition to the potentia...
Gender analysis of sweetpotato value chains: The impact of introducing orange-fleshed varieties to industrial buyers in ...
Under the auspices of the CIP‐led Scaling Up Sweetpotato through Agriculture and Nutrition project (SUSTAIN), the study reported here sought to understand how the introduction and commercialization of orange-fleshed sweetpotato has affected opportunities and constraints for smallholder sweetpotato farmers, particularly women. A social relations app...
Further evidence that gender matters for GHG mitigation in the dairy sector: Analysis of survey data from central Kenya ...
Consumption of dairy products in Sub-Saharan Africa is projected to increase significantly in the coming decades. As production increases, there will be an increasing need to reduce the environmental impacts of dairy production. One way to reduce the carbon footprint of milk production is to increase productivity: more productive cows use a greater...
Checklist: Gender-inclusive actionable agro-advisories
This checklist aims to assist producers and translators in developing agro-advisories (forecast and forecast-based advice) that are gender-inclusive and useful for both men and women farmers. It presents five indicators to determine the actionability of such agro-advisories: / (1) What information is available? / (2) If it is available, is it acces...
Research in the new gender platform: What and how?
