Mwende Mutiso, Janet Mayanja, Sarah Nyaga, John Sinelle, Sophie Renou, Camille Onyango, Charles Hareau, Guy Polar, Vivian Ashby, Jacqueline Okello, Julius Juma
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Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
The study assesses the gender implications of a target product profile for table potato in Kenya. Breeding programs mostly emphasize farmers’ trait requirements and rarely pay attention to other value chain actors’ preferences. This partially contributes to the low uptake of improved varieties. Therefore, efforts are required to assess the gender i...
Isaacs, Krista Weltzien, Eva Some, Hermann Diallo, Abdoulaye Diallo, Bocar Sidibé, Mamourou vom Brocke, Kirsten Samake, Bakary Nebié, Baloua Rattunde, Fred W.
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Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
This case study explores a decades long evolution towards a gender-responsive sorghum breeding program in Mali. With known disparities in men and women’s access to the resources that improve agricultural productivity and evidence that gender roles and responsibilities shape knowledge and preferences about varieties, there is need for methods that s...
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Women and men keeping chickens in Kenya aspire to have a source of income, feed their families healthy food, and grow their businesses. Managing animal diseases and minimizing input costs enable their success. This study uses qualitative methods to recommend design opportunities for a veterinary product under development in Kenya that contains bact...
Arroyo Corahua, Luz Fernanda Ruiz Ruiz, Marcos Fernando
Gender differences become relevant in the educational sphere for the construction of a sustainable society. Therefore, this research aimed to determine the factors that promote the Peruvian gender-responsive early childhood education system (3-5 y/o). Based on an exploratory and descriptive design, a qualitative structural analysis was carried out ...
Rubbia, Giuliana
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Frontiers in Earth Science
Schamp, Julie Vanderplasschen, Wouter Meulewaeter, Florien
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Frontiers in Psychiatry
Background Gender inequity is a pervasive challenge to health equity on a global scale, and research shows the impact of sex and gender on substance use regarding for example epidemiology, treatment needs, treatment admission and treatment outcomes. The gender-transformative approach to action and health indicates that health interventions may main...
Awiti, Alex O.
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Frontiers in Climate
Climate change affects livelihoods and wellbeing. Women and men may experience the impacts of climate change differently. But climate change and its associated impacts affect women negatively. A review was done on peer-reviewed literature related to the impact of climate change on gender in Africa. While there is an abundance of credible scientific...
Glenister, Kristen M. Ervin, Kaye Podubinski, Tegan
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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Women are predicted to be disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic due to increased carer responsibilities, loss of income, worry about the virus and a predominantly female healthcare workforce. Whilst there is emerging evidence that negative mental health impacts associated with the COVID-19 pandemic may be more pronounced for women th...
Shepherd, Stephane M. Newton, Danielle Harries, Cieran Fix, Rebecca L. Fullam, Rachael
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Psychiatry, Psychology, and Law
Adolescent females who have engaged in severe and/or chronic offending are an understudied population internationally. The literature on female offending pathways has indeed advanced, and there is a better understanding of how female offending behaviours manifest and how correctional agencies should be responding. However, much of the existing rese...
Van Voorhis, Patricia
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Correctional Counseling and Rehabilitation
