Gender Mainstreaming in Sweetpotato Breeding in Uganda: A Case Study

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country instituteen
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and advanced research instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Potato Centeren
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of East Angliaen
cg.contributor.affiliationNational Agricultural Research Organization, Ugandaen
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Greenwichen
cg.contributor.crpRoots, Tubers and Bananas
cg.contributor.donorBill & Melinda Gates Foundationen
cg.contributor.donorUnited States Agency for International Developmenten
cg.contributor.donorForeign, Commonwealth and Development Office, United Kingdomen
cg.coverage.countryUganda
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2UG
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.creator.identifierReuben SSALI Tendo: 0000-0002-8143-6564en
cg.creator.identifierSarah Mayanja: 0000-0002-9698-0036en
cg.creator.identifierMariam Nakitto: 0000-0002-4140-7216en
cg.creator.identifierJulius Juma Okello: 0000-0003-2217-2770en
cg.creator.identifierRobert Mwanga: 0000-0003-4405-2745en
cg.creator.identifierVivian Polar: 0000-0001-6004-6658en
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2023.1233102en
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn2297-7775en
cg.journalFrontiers in Sociologyen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.subject.cipBREEDINGen
cg.subject.cipGENDERen
cg.subject.cipSWEETPOTATOESen
cg.subject.cipSWEETPOTATO AGRI-FOOD SYSTEMSen
cg.subject.impactAreaGender equality, youth and social inclusion
cg.subject.impactPlatformGender
cg.subject.sdgSDG 5 - Gender equalityen
cg.volume8en
dc.contributor.authorSsali, R.T.en
dc.contributor.authorMayanja, S.en
dc.contributor.authorNakitto, M.en
dc.contributor.authorMutiso, J.M.en
dc.contributor.authorTinyiro, S.E.en
dc.contributor.authorBayiyana, I.en
dc.contributor.authorOkello, J.J.en
dc.contributor.authorForsythe, L.en
dc.contributor.authorMagala, D.en
dc.contributor.authorYada, B.en
dc.contributor.authorMwanga, Robert O.M.en
dc.contributor.authorPolar, Vivianen
dc.date.accessioned2023-12-15T15:29:22Zen
dc.date.available2023-12-15T15:29:22Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/135440
dc.titleGender Mainstreaming in Sweetpotato Breeding in Uganda: A Case Studyen
dcterms.abstractPurpose: In Uganda, sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam) is typically a "woman's crop", grown, processed, stored and also mainly consumed by smallholder farmers for food and income. Farmers value sweetpotato 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 sweetpotato value chains.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 showed subtle but important gender differences in preferences. For instance, in a study for the RTBFoods project, women prioritized mealiness, sweetness, firmness and non-fibrous boiled roots. These were further subjected to a rigorous gender analysis using the G+ product profile query tool. The breeding pipelines then incorporated these gender-responsive priority quality traits, prompting the development of standard operating procedures to phenotype these traits. This is a provisional file, not the final typeset article Conclusion: Following an all-inclusive approach coupled with traininig of multidisciplinary teams involving food scientists, breeders, biochemists, gender specialists and social scientists, integration into participatory variety selection in Uganda enabled accentuation of women and men's trait preferences, contributing to clearer breeding targets. The research has positioned sweetpotato breeding to better respond to the varying needs and preferences of the users.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceScientistsen
dcterms.available2023-12-15en
dcterms.bibliographicCitationSsali, R.T.; Mayanja, S.; Nakitto, M.; Mutiso, J.; Tinyiro, S.E.; Bayiyana, I.; Okello, J.J.; Forsythe, L.; Magala, D.; Yada, B.; Mwanga, R.O.M.; Campos, H. 2023. Gender Mainstreaming in Sweetpotato Breeding in Uganda: A Case Study. Frontiers in Sociology. ISSN 2297-7775. 12 p.en
dcterms.issued2023-12-15en
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.publisherFrontiers Mediaen
dcterms.subjectgenderen
dcterms.subjectplant breedingen
dcterms.subjecttrait preferencesen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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