Gender mainstreaming in sweet potato breeding in Uganda

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cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Potato Centeren
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Trust Funden
cg.coverage.countryUganda
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2UG
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.howPublishedGrey Literatureen
cg.subject.impactAreaGender equality, youth and social inclusion
cg.subject.impactPlatformGender
cg.subject.sdgSDG 5 - Gender equalityen
dc.contributor.authorSsali, Reuben T.en
dc.contributor.authorMayanja, Sarahen
dc.contributor.authorNakitto, Mariamen
dc.contributor.authorMwende, Janeten
dc.contributor.authorTinyiro, Samuel Edgaren
dc.contributor.authorBayiyana, Ireneen
dc.contributor.authorOkello, Juliusen
dc.contributor.authorForsythe, Loraen
dc.contributor.authorMagala, Damalieen
dc.contributor.authorYada, Benarden
dc.contributor.authorMwanga, Robert O.en
dc.contributor.authorPolar, Vivianen
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-04T12:46:23Zen
dc.date.available2024-01-04T12:46:23Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/136926
dc.titleGender mainstreaming in sweet potato breeding in Ugandaen
dcterms.abstractPurpose: In Uganda, sweet potato is typically a “women’s crop” grown by smallholder farmers for food and income. Farmers value sweet potato for its early maturity, resilience to stresses, and minimal input requirements. However, productivity remains low despite the effort of breeding programs to introduce new varieties. Low uptake of new varieties is partly attributed to previous focus by breeders on agronomic traits and much less on quality traits and the diverse preferences of men and women in sweet potato value chains. Method: To address this gap, breeders, food scientists, and social scientists (including gender specialists) systematically mainstreamed gender into the breeding program. This multidisciplinary approach, grounded in examining gender roles and their relationship with varietal and trait preferences, integrated important traits into product profiles. Results: Building on earlier efforts of participatory plant breeding and participatory varietal selection, new interventions revealed subtle but important gender differences in preferences. For instance, in a study for the RTBfoods project, women prioritized mealiness, sweetness, firmness and nonfibrous boiled roots. These were further subjected to a rigorous gender analysis using the G+ product profile query tool (Ashby and Polar, 2021; CGIAR 2021). The breeding pipelines then incorporated these gender-responsive priority quality traits, prompting the development of standard operating procedures to phenotype the PQTs. Conclusion: The product advancement and joint decision-making meetings have further positioned sweet potato breeding to better respond to the varying needs and preferences of the usersen
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceScientistsen
dcterms.bibliographicCitationSsali, Reuben T.; Mayanja, Sarah; Nakitto, Mariam; Mwende, Janet; Tinyiro, Samuel Edgar; Bayiyana, Irene; Okello, Julius; Forsythe, Lora; Magala, Damalie; Yada, Benard; Mwanga, Robert O.; Polar, Vivian. 2023. Gender mainstreaming in sweet potato breeding in Uganda. Presentation. Presented at the CGIAR GENDER Conference 'From Research to Impact: Towards just and resilient agri-food systems', New Delhi, India, 9-12 October 2023. International Potato Centeren
dcterms.issued2023-10-10en
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseOther
dcterms.publisherInternational Potato Centeren
dcterms.subjectgenderen
dcterms.subjectagricultureen
dcterms.subjectresearchen
dcterms.subjectplant breedingen
dcterms.subjectsweet potatoesen
dcterms.typePresentation

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