Meat, milk and fish are critical to the poor both as food and income. While research has hugely increased farm production in rich countries, it hasn't succeeded yet to help the millions of family farms in developing nations to raise their production very much. The CGIAR research program on livest...
Tom Randolph highlights how researchers are incentivized to take up gender as an important component of their research. Once they define a project with a gender component, they can receive financial support to implement the project or get backstopping by a gender specialist. Scientists are encour...
Randolph, Thomas F.
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[Creating incentives for gender integration in livestock and fish research]
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Creating incentives for gender integration in livestock and fish research
Looking back 20 years, Tom Randolph recalls a moment which influenced his priorities in gender and research. In tests of new varieties of short rice with men and women in West Africa, the men were delighted by the varieties’ high-yielding potential. Women, on the other hand, said they would never...
Randolph, Thomas F.
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[When gender research hit home: The importance of gender in research]
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When gender research hit home: The importance of gender in research
Tom Randolph explains how gender research has evolved in the CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish: when engaging in inclusive value chain development and improving access to food for the poor, addressing gender is inevitable. Livestock keepers and value-chain actors are often women; resea...
Randolph, Thomas F.
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[Tom Randolph launches the virtual Livestock and Fish review and planning meeting]
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Tom Randolph launches the virtual Livestock and Fish review and planning meeting