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It is often assumed that increasing agricultural productivity leads to a better diet. But in fact the relationship is more complex, and gender has an important role in mediating it. There are only a few harmonized datasets available, so the research team built its own tool and used it around the ...

Nasrin Sultana acted as a coach for the Livestock Feed Assessment Tool, or FEAST. This meant integrating gender in a tool that was already heavily used. It was necessary to integrate gender without making the tool too heavy, which would risk it losing its popularity. She also coached the feed val...

The CGIAR research program has been doing capacity development of non-gender scientists on how to integrate gender in their work. An institutional architecture has also been built to support gender integration, for example, interdisciplinary teams with a gender-initiative representative on the pr...

Gender is crucial for research on forages. We need to look at at gender aspects of forage production, such as labour-conservation techniques that may affect women and youth the most. Women and youth may have opportunities in feed processing and in forage-seed production. We also need to understan...

Catherine Pfeifer took up the challenge of integrating gender into the maps she produced. Starting with an economics model and major gender concepts, she performed a factor analysis on published data, which resulted in six factors or “gender contexts” in Africa. These maps can be used for assessi...

Katrine Danielsen was part of the original team that designed the coaching trajectory. She thinks the approach was successful because it was bottom-up. Individuals who were eager to integrate gender in their technical work were identified and supported through the coaching. The team also also loo...

Gender-disaggregated data are the only way we can answer a gender question. Analysing gender-disaggregated data is challenging but interesting. One of the most interesting findings from the research relates to asset ownership: it is necessary to look at the proportion of assets owned by women or ...

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

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

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...