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The “FEAST” livestock feed-assessment tool has been widely promoted and adopted, but as time passed the research team started receiving feedback. They were told that the tool was gender-blind. So the researchers adapted the tool to measure gender-related issues. Pretesting showed that the tool ha...

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...

In 2015, a considerable amount of money was set aside for CGIAR projects that were not gender-focused so they could develop proposals and apply for funds to integrate gender in their research. This was a clever way to move money from generic purposes to specific activities. If people have to inte...

Interview with Rhiannon Pyburn (Royal Tropical Institute) for the book "A different kettle of fish? Gender integration in livestock and fish research": http://hdl.handle.net/10568/76684

The best way to shift gender norms and dynamics is to link gender to other interventions. Addressing gender norms by themselves is difficult and is not easily accepted. The researchers introduced a new type of fishing net designed to catch small, nutritious fish known as mola. They tested whether...

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...

The mentoring of “gender fellows” – younger scientists in more technical disciplines such as fish feeds or genetics – is an interesting, novel initiative. Gender mainstreaming in research will take time – perhaps longer than anticipated. It will require sustained interventions and follow-up, for ...

When Fayzur Rahman started at WorldFish, people were astonished. They thought the gender specialist would be a woman. Previously they had seen only women working on gender issues. It’s not easy when he works with men; he tries to remove their misconceptions on gender. After a certain time they ac...

Interview with Karen Marshall (ILRI) for the book "A different kettle of fish? Gender integration in livestock and fish research". http://hdl.handle.net/10568/76684

Interview with Karen Marshall (ILRI) for the book "A different kettle of fish? Gender integration in livestock and fish research". http://hdl.handle.net/10568/76684