In Nigeria, women are quietly feeding the nation; they are happy with the market just the way it is. What women don’t say can be as important as what they do say.
Research and lessons learned from a collaboration between the CGIAR Research Programs on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB), and Policies, Institutions and Markets (PIM) to produce gender-sensitive tools to make value chain interventions more gender responsive have been shared during a training workshop for CGIAR gender research experts.
In Uganda, gender roles in production, processing and marketing of root, tuber and banana crops are complex. Key decisions on production and marketing are often made by men, although women majorly provide labor at crucial stages of production
It is often a mystery why a new agricultural technology or practice can be successful in one community yet fail to have the desired effect in another. Social expectations of how men and women should behave may affect their ability to adopt or benefit from such innovations.
A new study published in The Journal of Nutrition has found that daily consumption of meals with beans conventionally bred to be richer in iron reduced anemia and iron deficiency in young Rwandan women in just four-and-a-half months.
For this quarterly Science on the Pulse post focused on gender, and published on WLE’s Thrive blog, the authors draw on recent literature from women’s participation in natural resource governance institutions to examine three common assumptions about women’s participation in community-level water governance.
The purpose of this webinar is to discuss the main goals and contributions of the recently released working paper , the key criteria used to select indicators, and whether, it is possible to define simple, robust indicators of gender gaps in use and control over resources that are likely to impact and be affected by agricultural innovation.
The importance of migration to rural livelihoods in Nepal is not being recognized in forestry policy or by donors – and nor is the diversity of women’s experience, argues a chapter of a new book by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR).
