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ILRI reflects on the impact of COVID-19 on women leaders in marking the IWD 2021
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ILRI reflects on the impact of COVID-19 on women leaders in marking the IWD 2021

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This year’s International Women’s Day theme is ”Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world.” It is aimed at celebrating the tremendous efforts by women and girls around the world in shaping a more equal future and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. At ILRI, we sought to mark the day by reflecting on the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on women and the leadership strategies they are implementing to manage the situation. Continue reading →

Power through: a new concept in the women empowerment discourse
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Power through: a new concept in the women empowerment discourse

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The paper ‘Power through: A new concept in the empowerment discourse’ by Alessandra Galiè, a senior gender scientist at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and Cathy Rozel Farnworth, an independent researcher, offers a new perspective on the role of ‘power through’ in women’s empowerment. Continue reading →

Gendered barriers and opportunities in milk trading in peri-urban Nairobi: Insights from a webinar presentation
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Gendered barriers and opportunities in milk trading in peri-urban Nairobi: Insights from a webinar presentation

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The key findings indicate that milk business is more lucrative for men than for women due to gender-based constraints faced by women milk traders. For instance, access to and purchase of milk from producers is mainly favourable to men due to cultural norms that hinder women such as inability to travel to remote areas due to house chores and inappropriate means of transport (mainly motorbikes). Continue reading →

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Celebrating International Women’s Day: gendered challenges and opportunities in livestock value chains

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Women and livestock The role of women in agricultural production cannot be overstated. As articulated in this infographic, half of all farmers in the developing world are women. The need to bridge the gender gap in agriculture has been well highlighted in reports and studies including this FAO report on building the gender gap in … Continue reading →

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Meet scientists in ILRI’s Livelihoods, Gender and Impact Program: Alessandra Galiè

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In the run up to the International Women’s Day commemorated on 8th March 2014, on this blog we will meet gender scientists working in the Livelihoods, Gender, Impact and Innovations Program at ILRI. Meet Alessandra Galiè, whose work focuses on the Tanzania dairy value chain.  ‘Gender analysis helps us appreciate the circumstances, priorities, needs and … Continue reading →

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Meet scientists in ILRI’s Livelihoods, Gender and Impact Program: Elizabeth Waithanji

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In the run up to the International Women’s Day commemorated on 8th March 2014, each week on this blog we will meet gender scientists working in the Livelihoods, Gender, Impact and Innovations Program at ILRI. This week, we meet Elizabeth Waithanji a gender scientists who worked with the program for four years until October 2013. … Continue reading →

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Meet scientists in ILRI’s Livelihoods, Gender and Impact Program: Kathy Colverson

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As we approach International Women’s Day, commemorated on 8th March 2014, each week on this blog we will meet gender scientists working in the Livelihoods, Gender, Impact and Innovations Program at ILRI. This week, we meet Kathleen Earl Colverson, a senior gender scientist in the program, with more than twenty years’ experience in gender research. … Continue reading →

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A leader who has added great value to ILRI and many individuals: Praise for Jemimah Njuki

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After 9 years with the CGIAR Jemimah Njuki,  a social scientists and the outgoing team leader of  the Poverty, Gender and Impact team stretches her wings to other heights! The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) team that she has been working with and leaves behind to continue working on gender issues had this to say … Continue reading →

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Gender, assets,and agricultural development programs: A conceptual framework

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This new CAPRi (CGIAR Systemwide Program on Collective Action and Property Rights) Working Paper by Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Nancy Johnson, Agnes Quisumbing, Jemimah Njuki, Julia Behrman, Deborah Rubin, Amber Peterman and Elizabeth Waithanji  offers a conceptual framework to understand the gendered pathways through which asset accumulation occurs, including attention to not only men’s and women’s assets … Continue reading →