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

Mohammad Mamun-Ur-Rashid is a member of a research team that has tried to come up with a methodology to get information from women in Bangladesh. It’s not easy for women to speak up about unequal conditions or sexual harassment. It’s important to create an environment in which they are comfortabl...

This film highlights the results of a three-year initiative (2015-17) by ILRI and the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) to strengthen the gender capacities of local partners in Ethiopia through training in the use of gender mainstreaming strategies, experime...

Gender in value chain is increasingly receiving attention: lots of toolkits have been developed. The researchers wanted to take what as been developed a step further by using gender-transformative approaches to understand the dynamics and bring about lasting changes. Interview with Froukje Kruijs...

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

The research team tried to integrate gender-transformative approaches in analysing the fish value chain. It developed tools that can be used alone or integrated in a conventional value-chain assessment. The idea was to understand the underlying causes for inequalities between men and women and fa...

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