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New guide outlines options for integrating gender equity and social inclusion in low-emissions dairy production interventions

Posted on Wednesday 25 January 2017 by Dorine Odongo • Leave a comment

A recently published research report highlights that in order to appropriately address gender and socially inclusive development in the Kenyan dairy sector, any intervention must take into consideration the substantive cultural gender issues that are at play at both the household and producer organization levels. Continue reading →

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New papers explore gender-inclusive climate adaptation strategies

Posted on Monday 19 December 2016 by Dorine Odongo • Leave a comment

Articles featured in a special edition of the journal of Gender, Technology and Development demonstrate that providing women with engagement opportunities and adaptation resources will greatly reduce the variance in agricultural productivity between men and women, which currently range from four to 25 percent globally. Continue reading →

Agriculture / CCAFS

Millions of small-scale food producers on a collision course with climate change

Posted on Saturday 31 December 2011 by ILRI Communications

For people living in absolute poverty and chronic hunger, the solution is not to rid the world of livestock, but to find ways to farm animals more efficiently and more sustainably Continue reading →

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