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...
Kruijssen, Froukje
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[Combining technologies and transformative approaches to gender in livestock and fish research]
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Combining technologies and transformative approaches to gender in livestock and fish research
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
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 ...
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
Marshall, Karen
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[Breaking ground: Women and men’s preferences in animal breeding practices in Somaliland]
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Breaking ground: Women and men’s preferences in animal breeding practices in Somaliland
Robinson, Timothy P.
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Wint, W.
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Conchedda, G.
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Cinardi, G.
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Boeckel, Thomas P. van
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Bett, Bernard K.
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Gilbert, M.
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[The global livestock sector: Trends and health implications]
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The global livestock sector: Trends and health implications
Speaking at the Increasing Agricultural Productivity and Enhancing Food Security in Africa conference held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 1-3 November, 2011, ILRI's Ayele Gelan discusses ways to integrate livestock in the CAADP framework. He also discusses how livestock is neglected when it comes to po...
The is the story about how keeping cows has enabled Margaret Muchina, a dairy farmer from central Kenya, to support and educate her four children, who include Edward Muchina who sat for his high school exam in 2010 and emerged as one of the country's best students.
International Livestock Research Institute
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[The Muchina family: How dairy farming educate's Kenya's children]
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The Muchina family: How dairy farming educate's Kenya's children
ILRI’s Andrew Mude interviewed live on DSTV television on August 24, 2011 by a South African journalist on the drought in the Horn, what can be done to enhance pastoral resilience in this region in the face of recurring droughts, such as his project that is insuring pastoral livestock against dro...
Henning Steinfeld leads the livestock sector analysis and policy branch at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN. He spoke at the sidelines of the Third Multi-Stakeholder Platform Meeting of the Global Agenda of Action in Support of Sustainable Livestock Sector Development co-hosted in ...
Steinfeld, H.
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[Comments at the Third Multi-Stakeholder Platform Meeting of the Global Agenda of Action in Support of Sustainable Livestock Sector Development]
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Comments at the Third Multi-Stakeholder Platform Meeting of the Global Agenda of Action in Support of Sustainable Livestock Sector Development
Les plateformes d'innovation sont une nouvelle approche pour une concertation entre acteurs en vue d'appréhender l'ensemble des facteurs affectant une chaîne de valeur agricole. Hubert Some de la SNV nous offre son point de vue sur les expériences en cours dans le bassin de la Volta. Cette entrev...
Some, Hubert W.
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[Les plateformes d’innovation de la Volta—pour une production agricole efficace et concertée]
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Les plateformes d’innovation de la Volta—pour une production agricole efficace et concertée