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
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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
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
Gender and market-oriented agriculture: From research to practice
From 31 January to 2 February 2011, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) hosts an AgriGender 2011 workshop and field trip. The workshop will bring together agricultural researchers, development practitioners, donor representatives and policymakers who are working in Africa and other regions to give women greater access to markets and value chains. The global dialogue … Continue reading
Workshop on gender and market-oriented agriculture: Research to practice
A Workshop on Gender and Market-oriented Agriculture 2011 (AgriGender 2011): Research to Practice 31st January-2nd February, 2011: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Working with women farmers and entrepreneurs shows time and again that, women are essential to economic development, especially in rural and agricultural economies but also that they face specific constraints. There are multiple efforts by … Continue reading
ILRI policies, instititions and livelihoods program 