Last month, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) hosted a workshop on gender and market oriented agriculture. In this video, ILRI’s Ranjitha Puskur describes the challenges of designing and implementing agricultural programs that put money into the pockets of poor rural women. She argues that most developing-country women have little control over how the farm … Continue reading »
Last month, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) hosted a workshop on gender and market oriented agriculture. In this video, ILRI’s Ranjitha Puskur explains why gender is important in ILRI’s projects, and that training and development interventions need to serve the interests of men as well as women. Continue reading »
Last week, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) hosted a workshop on gender and market oriented agriculture. Scientists, researchers, gender experts, and development practitioners from the government, donors as well as non-governmental and international organizations, attended the workshop. View the meeting outputs online: News items and blog posts Powerpoint presentations on Slideshare Photos on Flickr … Continue reading »
Last week, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) hosted a workshop on gender and market oriented agriculture. In this video, we talked to Ann Waters Bayer about the whole issue of gender and livestock value chains: She identified five key lessons that we should follow: First, do a proper gender analysis with each … Continue reading »
At the AgriGender workshop closing, ILRI’s Dirk Hoekstra presented his observations and reflections on the Workshop. As captured by Susan MacMillan, these were: The presentations of case studies at this workshop demonstrate that the agricultural roles that women play differ greatly by country and culture. We have started to accumulate a lot of useful gender … Continue reading »
As yesterday’s first morning at the AgriGender 2011 workshop wrapped up, we found ourselves reflecting on the four presentations, all emphasizing the critical role of women in market-led agriculture. One common thread shared by all four presenters was the need to address BOTH men and women simultaneously, to increase women’s decision-making roles. Besides the presenters, … Continue reading »
