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How to measure impact of short-term interventions with participatory systems research approaches?
Participatory focus group discussion can be used to jointly analyse systems drivers, trade-off
calculation of different human agents in the system and depict feedback loops in the system. The
author created these participatory ...
Gender preferred crops with laboratory evidence on fodder quality traits
A summary report on gender preferred local varieties and evidence from laboratories on Iron and zinc content on grains and fodder quality traits.
Introducing the MENA Initiative: A multi-partner enterprise transforming rural livelihoods through sustainable agricultural development in Middle East & North Africa (MENA)
Invitation to join the "From Farms to Markets: Innovative agri-based value chains: new streams of income for women and youth" session during the COP22 Marrakech Climate Change Conference.
Gender, Tenurial niches in the Kandeu informal irrigation scheme of Malawi and their implications for drought mitigation
The presentation addresses the issue of understanding the gendered tenurial niches in the informal irrigation in the Kandeu informal irrigation scheme of Malawi and
their implications for drought mitigation, presented by ...
Mainstreaming Gender and Empowering Women in Agriculture in the Thar Region of India
Social inequities based on gender norms reinforce nonparticipation of women in decision making at various levels, consequently
depriving them of the benefits arising out of any technological advances. These advances could ...
What do we mean by ‘women’s crops’? Commercialisation, gender, and the power to name
We explore the relationship between commercialisation and gender for groundnuts in Eastern Province, Zambia, using a mixed methods approach. Women saw themselves as having greater control over groundnuts than other crops, ...
Climate Change, Gender, Decision-making Power, and Migration into the Saiss Region of Morocco
Studies on migration in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have so far focused on migration to urban areas (local cities and European countries). Little research has explored internal migration into rural areas. ...
Participatory Systems Analysis: Why invest women less in agriculture and agro-business than men
A newly tested approach to participtory systems analysis is presented, which has been used to analyse why women invest less in agriculture and agro-business than men in Eastern Africa (Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda)
Dryland Systems Annual Report 2015
The CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Systems is
a global agricultural research partnership to realize
the potential of dryland communities. The program
brings together eight CGIAR centers, and numerous
international, ...
‘A woman here is not only a woman but both a woman and a man’: Egyptian Women’s Performative Strategies to Gain Power and Access Resources in Irrigated Agriculture
This paper is concerned with women’s performance of masculinity or women who ‘behave as men’, in irrigated agriculture, by acting less feminine, confident and serious; resorting to physical aggression when needed; as well ...