Gender

Capacity strengthening, Gender

Africa RISING launches manual on participatory tools for gender-transformative decision making

A new manual outlining how extensionists, development partners and policymakers can promote gender-transformative decision making by smallholders when introducing new technologies has been launched by the Africa RISING gender team. Titled, Gender-transformative decision-making on agricultural technologies: Participatory tools, the 76-paged manual ...

By Africa RISING communications OnDecember 23, 2022

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Crop-Livestock, Gender, Ghana

‘The woman has no right to sell livestock’— challenging gender norms for transformative interventions in Ghana

What will it take to make the small ruminants value chain in northern Ghana more inclusive? Results from a study by Africa RISING scientists shows how much gender norms are a root cause of this problem and how all-inclusive community conversations ...

By Africa RISING communications OnFebruary 28, 2022

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Fruit, Gender, IITA, MAIZECRP, Research, Southern Africa, Tanzania, Value Chains, Vegetables, Women

The gender equity gap: an inside look at the vegetable producers and traders in northern and central Tanzania

Horticulture is one of the fastest growing subsectors of agriculture in Tanzania with vegetables increasingly produced as cash crops. A recent study published in the European Journal of Development Research (February 2020) analysed the ways gender inequality has affected agricultural production ...

By Africa RISING communications OnOctober 21, 2020

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Gender, IITA, Intensification, Presentation, Research, WUR

Africa RISING at Tropentag 2019

On 17–20 September, three Africa RISING scientists, Gundula Fischer, Bekele Kotu and Mirja Michalscheck, got a chance to share insights from their work with the global research community at the annual Tropentag 2019 interdisciplinary conference on research in tropical and subtropical ...

By Africa RISING communications OnOctober 14, 2019

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Africa, Capacity strengthening, Gender, IFPRI, IITA, ILRI, Impact Assessment, Intensification, MAIZECRP, Women

New Africa RISING training manual for building capacity in gender-sensitive research

New manual by Africa RISING offers guidance on gender mainstreaming capacity building for agricultural researchers.

By Jonathan Odhong OnMarch 15, 2019

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East Africa, Fodder, Gender, IITA, Intensification, MAIZECRP, poster, SIIL, Southern Africa, Tanzania

Integrating gender analysis into the Sustainable Intensification Assessment Framework

This poster shows how the Sustainable Intensification Assessment Framework can be used for gender analysis in the context of Africa RISING. The framework consists of five domains: productivity, profitability, environment, human and social. One of the foci of the social domain is ...

By Jonathan Odhong OnFebruary 21, 2019

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Africa Research in Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation Ethiopian highlands project technical report, 1 April–30 September 2018

In its second phase, Africa RISING targeted to reach 0.7 million direct beneficiary households and 3.4 million indirect potential beneficiary households. Parallelly, the project continues to conduct action research that will explore further generic issues and facilitate scaling of the innovations ...

By Simret Yasabu OnNovember 22, 2018

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Technologies that transform: A look at select Africa RISING interventions in Babati District, Tanzania

Africa RISING is implementing action research with farmers in Babati District, Tanzania to validate several technologies that are set to significantly improve farmer livelihoods. Here is a look at summaries of some of these technologies and how they work.

By Jonathan Odhong OnFebruary 21, 2018

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The level of women farmers’ participation in five stages of the agricultural research process and implications for food security in Ethiopia

Empowerment is central to women’s participation in agricultural research and to boost their role in agriculture and contribution to food security. To do so it is important to understand the current level of their participation and the factors that influence their ...

By Simret Yasabu OnJanuary 17, 2018

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Unravelling links between gender and adoption of agricultural innovations: Insights from communities in Malawi

How do gender dynamics influence adoption of agricultural innovations? A new Africa RISING report shares findings from an exploration of this and other questions with smallholder farmers in central Malawi.

By Jonathan Odhong OnOctober 17, 2017

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