The CGIAR Livestock and Fish Program supports scientists to think about gender. It teams up technical scientists with gender researchers. Working together they can come up with ideas on how to work on gender in research programmes. This approach has been quite successful. It also needs to be tran...
Wright, Iain A.
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[Integration of gender for better science: Supporting scientists in research]
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Integration of gender for better science: Supporting scientists in research
Gender is an important dimension in livestock systems. Animals are a source of food and nutrients for people including for women and children, livestock provides an income, resources to send children to school, buy commodities, etc. Women are central to livestock rearing; they provide about 70% o...
Iain Wright, ILRI deputy director general, shares his ‘aha’ moment when he really understood the central importance of women in livestock development. This film was produced to mark the International Women’s Day 2019 which is themed ‘Think equal, build smart, innovate for change’.