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Community gender profiles across livestock production systems in Ethiopia: Implications for intervention design
The design of research and development interventions promoting gender-responsive value chains is hampered by the lack of gender disaggregated data. Data shortages in the livestock sector span multiple issues including ...
Linking Livestock Producers and Rural Women to Global Yarn Markets
The project used a market-driven science approach to ensure quick uptake by rural women and succeeded in establishing a self-sustaining value chain, from improved breeding and husbandry practices to production of world-class ...
Participatory Epidemiology and Gender training report
A five days training focusing on participatory epidemiology and gender was organized in the ILRI Campus, Addis Ababa from 15-19 June 2015. The training brought together participants from the Livestock and Fish as well as ...
Community gender profiles help target small ruminant value chain interventions in Ethiopia
The design of research and development interventions in Ethiopia has long been hampered by a lack of gender disaggregated data. Working to overcome these data shortages, a participatory rural appraisal (PRA) exercise was ...
“Sheep are Like Fast-Growing Cabbage": Gender Dimensions of Small Ruminant Health in Ethiopia
This project feeds into the gender-integrated research agenda with a focus on understanding how gender relations/dynamics affect disease control among small ruminants in Ethiopia. This is put in a broader context of wanting ...
Participation of Female-headed Households in Sheep Fattening in Ethiopia
Poster of Participation of Female-headed Households in Sheep Fattening in Ethiopia
Gendered and systemic constraints and opportunities to fodder production systems in Afghanistan
Livestock plays an important role in the livelihoods of many farmers in Baghlan province.
A first reason for limited forage production and forage gap is that fodder crops compete with food crops. In addition, farmers do ...
Advancing the gender agenda in small ruminant value chains in Ethiopia
A recent gender capacity assessment study by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) revealed that low or lack of gender ...
A Fest for Women and Men: Genderizing a Feed-Assessment Tool
Over the last 7 years, scientists at ILRI, CIAT and ICARDA have developed a tool, known as the Feed Assessment Tool (FEAST), that consists of two parts: a rapid, participatory assessment using focus groups, and individual ...
Gender capacity assessment feedback and validation report for the small ruminant value chain in Ethiopia
Gender Capacity Assessment (GCA) was conducted in April - May, 2015 with six research and development partners of ILRI/ICARDA to give momentum to the implementation of strategic interventions that will directly address the ...