Gender Briefs

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    Promoting gender equality in irrigation
    (Brief, 2016-07-13) Theis, Sophie; Passarelli, Simone; Bryan, Elizabeth; Lefore, Nicole; Deneke, Seblewongle; Nyamadi, Ben; Mlote, Sophia
    Small-scale irrigation is increasingly recognized as a key strategy for enhancing agricultural productivity and food security under growing climate uncertainty in Africa south of the Sahara. Rainfed production dominates the region, but governments and other stakeholders are increasing investments in irrigation. As these efforts are being rolled out, the gender implications of irrigation must be consid-ered to ensure that both men and women have the opportunity to adopt irrigation technologies and benefit from these investments.
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    Building gender research expertise: CGIAR's gender postdoctoral fellowship program
    (Brief, 2017) Karlsson, Kristofer; Russell, Nathan
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    Gender connections: A role for communications, knowledge sharing, and data and information management
    (Brief, 2017) Staiger Rivas, Simone; Mascarenhas, Martina; Mwanzia, Leroy
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    Mainstreaming gender in CGIAR research: 2012-2016. An overview
    (Brief, 2017) Karlsson, Kristofer; Russell, Nathan
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    From awareness to action: Knowledge sharing for more gender-responsive animal and plant breeding
    (Brief, 2017) Mascarenhas, Martina; Ashby, Jacqueline A.
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    CGIAR Gender Research Action Plan Brief Series: An overview
    (Brief, 2017-04-27) CGIAR Gender and Agriculture Research Network
    CGIAR Gender Research Action Plan - Brief Series The four briefs in this series provide a final report of the activities, achievements and lessons learned in the Gender Research Action Plan. These briefs are intended to (1) provide an overview of activities, achievements, lessons learned and opportunities in key areas, (2) provide support and resources for members of the network to more rapidly implement collaborative work in Phase II of the CRPs, and (3) facilitate members’ knowledge sharing, given different levels and types of gender expertise, through more effective and accessible mechanisms for cross-learning and good practice exchanges via the Gender Network. These briefs were prepared for the CGIAR Gender and Agriculture Research Network by the CGIAR Gender Network Coordination Team at the CGIAR System Management Office with support from the knowledge sharing support team of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT).
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    Gender and ethnic dynamics of household decision making in hydropower-related resettlement
    (Brief, 2016) CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems
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    Climate Change Adaptation in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management in Tanzania: A Gender Policy Review
    (Brief, 2016-11-17) Acosta, Mariola; Ampaire, Edidah L.; Okolo, Wendy; Twyman, Jennifer; Jassogne, Laurence T.P.
    More than twenty years have passed since the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action, where gender mainstreaming was acknowledged as an indispensable global strategy for achieving gender equality. Since then, Tanzania has undoubtedly made efforts in mainstreaming gender in its national policies and strategies (MCDGC, 2012). However, to date some of its policies and strategies still remain gender blind or have not prioritized gender as an area for immediate action. This insufficient consideration to gender in some policy documents, coupled with limited enforcement of the policies that were drafted as gender sensitive, might hinder progress towards gender equality in the country. With climate change increasingly threatening rural livelihoods in Tanzania (Orindi and Murray 2005; Yanda et al. 2013), the need to incorporate gender considerations in the policies and programs dealing directly and indirectly with climate change issues becomes even more apparent. Indeed, if policies fail to acknowledge the different roles, opportunities, perspectives and challenges that women and men have in the face of climate change, the adaptation and mitigation measures proposed in the policies will likely fail or may even ultimately exacerbate gender inequalities (Ncube et al., 2011).
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    Strengthening women’s tenure rights and participation in community forestry
    (Brief, 2016) Mukasa, Concepta; Tibazalika, Alice; Mwangi, Esther; Banana, Abwoli Y.; Bomuhangi, Allan; Bushoborozi, Jimmy
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    Guidelines for Developing Participatory Plant Breeding Programs
    (Brief, 2000) Plant Breeding Working Group
    These are extended guidelines, compiled for all those interested in supporting participatory plant breeding work, whether from a research or development perspective.
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    Mainstreaming gender in agricultural R&D
    (Brief, 2009) CGIAR Systemwide Program on Participatory Research and Gender Analysis for Technology Development and Institutional Innovation
    Mainstreaming a gender perspective is the process of assessing the implications for women and men of any planned action, including legislation, policies or programmes in all areas and at all levels. It is a strategy for making women's as well as men's concerns and experiences an integral dimension of teh design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies and programmes in all political, economic and societal spheres so that women and men benefit equally and inequality is not perpetuated.
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    Collective action and property rights for sustainable development
    (Brief, 2004-02) Knox, Anna; Lilja, Nina
    Local innovation is the key to sustainable improvement in agricultural production, natural resource management, and rural livelihood systems. One of the main lessons of participa- tory research is that involving stakeholders in the early stages of research and development leads to better targeting of tech- nologies, a greater sense of local ownership, and often more economically secure livelihoods. Participatory research approaches have been shown to reduce the time between the initiation of research and the adoption of new technologies and to increase both the rate and speed of adoption. The process of participating in research can also have a significant impact on farmers' human and social capital. Combining technical innovations with collective action initiatives has been shown to lead to substantial farmer benefits. A number of farmer-led research and extension (FRE) approaches incorporate collective action for different purposes and at different stages in the innovation process. Collective action can be useful in sharing knowledge, setting priorities, and experimenting with, evaluating, and disseminating technologies. Participatory research and collective action tend to reinforce one another. Where strong norms of collective action and social capital exist, they create a climate conducive to joint experimentation and sharing of innovation. Collective action can be instrumental in motivating participation, coordinating the actions of multiple resource users, spreading risks, managing environmental spillovers, and scaling up the benefits of participatory research. When seeded by external facilitation and scientific partnership, a carefully nurtured process of participation also has the potential to strengthen social networking, cooperation, and organization.
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    Investing in women as drivers of agriculture
    (Brief, 2008) Ashby, Jacqueline A.; Hartl, Marian; Lambrou, Yianna; Larson, Gunnar; Lubbock, Annina; Pehu, Eija; Ragasa, Catherine
    Agriculture for Development, the 2008 World Development Report, showed that agriculture is a critical source of livelihoods for women in many developing countries, and a key pathway out of poverty.1 It also portrayed women in many rural societies as especially constrained by a lack of access to inputs, productive resources, and services. They also often lack incentives to invest given the greater vulnerability and proportionately greater exposure to risk that result from having fewer assets, and the very real likelihood that once their niche in the value chain becomes commercially profitable it will be expropriated by men. The Gender and Agriculture Sourcebook uses empirical evidence to inform policy formulation and program design.2 It provides decision makers and practitioners with practical guidance, not only on how to avoid the pitfalls of gender neutral planning, but on how to capitalize on the extraordinary productive and poverty reducing potential of the woman farmer.
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    Practical tips for communicating research findings in a gender-responsive way
    (Brief, 2016) Elias, Marlène; Hermanowicz, E.
    This two-page publication highlights 12 key aspects that scientists working on research for development projects in agriculture and natural resource management should bear in mind to share their research findings in a gender-responsive way. A gender-responsive communications strategy must be adequately planned and budgeted for at the earliest stages of the research process, and comprises four facets: understanding your audience; showcasing relevant gender findings; sharing these findings with differentiated stakeholders through gender sensitive channels and monitoring and evaluating all these efforts for continuous improvement. This requires a good understanding of the topics that capture the interest of these stakeholders, their preferred ways of accessing your findings, capacity to interpret the information you produce, and the intended use of this information. Knowledge is power. Ensuring that research and action partners, but also the local women, men and marginalized groups who are the target beneficiaries of our research are able to equitably access our findings can support their empowerment and is an essential part of the research-for-development process.
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    New directions in participatory plant breeding for eco-efficient agriculture = Nuevas direcciones en el fitomejoramiento participativo para la agricultura eco-eficiente
    (Brief, 2010) Biermayr Jenzano, Patricia
    Farmers across the globe are facing unprecedented changes in their environment. Climate change is affecting the natural environment in often catastrophic and unpredictable ways. The global economic 'bubble'; that provided cheap credit to many people has burst. The individual and combined effects of these two events are driving the poor into even greater poverty. Resource-poor farmers need strategies to be able to adapt to the changing conditions, over and above their ongoing efforts to raise themselves to a higher state of well-being out of poverty. As the effects of climate change are increasingly felt worldwide, especially in the humid and semi-arid tropics, dry areas; and other regions with extreme; climates;there is an increasing need for crop breeding and variety development to become more adapted to changing weather events while making production more efficient. In this case, efficiency; is not measured simply as the ability to churn out new varieties of staple crops, but for the work to be responsive to farmers; (rapidly) changing needs and in specific circumstances. To this end, the Program on Participatory Research and Gender Analysis (PRGA Program) is experimenting with, promoting, and advocating new directions in participatory plant breeding (PPB) to equip both small-scale farmers and researchers for the challenges ahead.
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    This Land is Our Land: gender perspectives on tenure and rights
    (Brief, 2015) CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems
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    Supporting women farmers in a changing climate: five policy lessons
    (Brief, 2015-10-15) Huyer, Sophia; Twyman, Jennifer; Koningstein, Manon; Ashby, Jacqueline A.; Vermeulen, Sonja J.
    Policies, institutions and services to help farmers develop new approaches to deal with climate change will need to produce results for women farmers as well as men. This brief provides five policy lessons to support this process, based on evidence from research in low- and middle- income countries and offers guidelines for crafting gender-responsive climate policies at global and national levels. This research was presented in March 2015 at a seminar in Paris on ‘Closing the gender gap in farming under climate change’, co-organized by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), the International Social Science Council (ISSC) and Future Earth.
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    Closing the gender gap in climate-smart agriculture
    (Brief, 2015-09-01) Vermeulen, Sonja J.
    Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) has become a central concept shaping action and bringing together constituencies at the global level on agriculture and climate change. In essence, climate-smart agriculture pays explicit attention to how interventions in agriculture and food systems affect each of three key outcomes: food security, adaptation and mitigation (FAO 2013). The climate-smart agriculture movement is not prescriptive about how best to achieve these outcomes, nor how to manage the inevitable trade-offs – the idea is that locally appropriate priorities and solutions will be generated. A key question arises as to the winners and losers from these processes, in terms of gender as well as other social dimensions, and whether climate-smart agriculture help transform agriculture and rural development in ways that achieve major gains for gender equity.