As part of the IFPRI-ILRI Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project (GAAP), Elizabeth (Liz) Waithanji from the Poverty Gender and Impacts (PGI) team of the ILRI Markets, Gender and Livelihoods Theme visited Care Bangladesh Strengthening the Dairy Value Chain (SDVC) Project in Bangladesh between June 25th and July 2nd 2012. Among the activities she conducted was … Continue reading »
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We have no control over resources, but we are trying to buy assets that we can own and control: Eventually we shall attain the power that we desire to have
As part of the IFPRI-ILRI Gender, Agriculture, and Asset Project (GAAP), Elizabeth (Liz) Waithanji from the Poverty Gender and Impacts (PGI) team of the ILRI Markets, Gender and Livelihoods Theme visited Care Bangladesh Strengthening the Dairy Value Chain (SDVC) Project in Bangladesh between June 25th and July 2nd 2012. Among the activities she conducted were … Continue reading »
Agriculture / ILRI / Livestock / Markets / Women
AgriGender report available
A workshop entitled Gender and market-oriented agriculture: From research to practice (AgriGender 2011) was organized by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the IPMS project from 31 January to 2 February 2011 in Addis Ababa to share the experiences of integrating gender in initiatives promoting market-oriented agriculture. Download the report Continue reading »
Agriculture / Livestock / Markets / Women
Perspectives on gender and market-oriented agriculture
In February 2011, researchers, development practitioners, donors and policymakers working in Africa and Asia gathered at the Gender and Market-oriented Agriculture workshop in Addis Ababa, organised by ILRI, to discuss ways of enabling women to participate in and benefit from agricultural markets. Several participants offered New Agriculturist their points of view. Why is gender important? … Continue reading »
Agriculture / ILRI / IPMS / Livestock / Markets / PovertyGender / Women
Designing rural interventions to benefit women
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 »
Agriculture / ILRI / IPMS / Livestock / Markets / PovertyGender / Women
Gender takes center stage in ILRI projects
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 »
Reporting the gender and market oriented agriculture workshop
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 »
Five lessons to integrate gender in market-oriented agriculture
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 »
AgriGender workshop: Common threads
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 »
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Putting money in the pockets of men AND women
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 »
