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A Gender Research Program for Latin America
Gender is like blood: It flows through the body and keeps it alive; likewise gender keeps programs and projects alive and relevant to poor farmers. Without gender or without blood dev. interventions...
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ECABREN takes on new gender challenges
By Olive Thiong’o At the close of the recent East and Central Africa Bean Research Network [ECABREN] steering committee meeting in Arusha, Tanzania, participants unanimously agreed to begin...
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Gender: Moving beyond the box-ticking exercise
By Katherine A. Snyder and Beth Cullen This blog originally appeared on the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE) blog and is part of the Agriculture and Ecosystems Blog’s...
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International photo competition on forestry and gender
Photos knock down the world’s language barriers and connect people, particularly when it comes to agricultural issues in which the audiences are so diverse: farmers, rural and urban families, NGOs,...
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Former CIAT Scientist Segenet Kelemu – Laureate of the 2014 L’Oréal-UNESCO...
Segenet Kelemu, former Leader of Crop Health Management at CIAT, is the Laureate of the 2014 L’Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science for Africa and the Arab States region. Kelemu was honored for her...
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Putting gender on the map
Gearing up for the Gender and Agriculture Research Network discussion This week, the CGIAR Gender and Agriculture Research Network meet at the International Rice Research Institute in Los Baños, in the...
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Rethinking gender and the destructive process
When the CGIAR Gender and Agriculture Research Network met this week, little did they know that destruction would actually be written into the agenda. Albeit constructive, creative destruction of...
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Engendering bigger impact: making the other half count
Women account for 45 to 80 percent of all food production in developing countries depending on the region. Credit: Georgina Smith / CIAT Gelia Castillo has had her fair share of challenges as a female...
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Women on the front line: resource control and the climate battle
Terracing to restore soil fertility in Lushoto, Tanzania. Credit: Georgina Smith / CIAT This post first appeared on the CCAFS website. Climate change has serious implications for food security....
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From field to lab: whose priorities count?
Women farmers in Sorghum field. Photo credit: ICRISAT / PS Rao Making decisions in the lab about what crop traits to improve over others, already assumes that one trait is more desirable than another....
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Women as drivers of positive change
In many developing countries, women play a major role in agricultural activity. They can be responsible for growing and selling crops and livestock, in addition to taking care of the household and all...
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