The CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research is hosting and organizing the webinar ‘Gender dynamics in formal seed system in sub-Saharan Africa and worldwide lessons‘ on November 21st, 2.00-3.30pm CEST. The webinar is organized in collaboration with the CGIAR Research Program on Maize. REGISTER FOR THIS WEBINAR Background Improved maize seed is essential for African farming systems because of its…
CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research is pleased to mark the International Day of Rural Women – October 15th – by sharing recent and compelling gender research from across CGIAR. A video by the CGIAR System Management Office offers us a welcoming glimpse of the rationale behind and diversity of system-wide gender research. international day of rural women 2019 by CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender…
Welcome to the eleventh issue of the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research’s quarterly newsletter! Rhiannon Pyburn, Coordinator of the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research, introduces us to the latest and greatest news from CGIAR gender research over the past three months! ‘The Pulse‘ features Marlène Elias, Gender Research Coordinator for the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and…
What is on the minds of leading CGIAR researchers as they integrate gender perspectives in pursuit of system-wide objectives? Gender inequality is a wicked problem. Its roots are deep and it is embedded in formal and informal institutions – in ideologies, policies, and markets – across sectors and scales. It is context- and culture-specific, so it is manifested through and affects…
By Rose Otieno Ochieng, social scientist specialised in gender at NIRAS, Kenya. Gender Action and Learning System (GALS) is a community-led household methodology that aims to give women and men more control over their personal, household, community and organisational development. It comprises role playing and visual tools to help farmers plan their lives and sustainable livelihoods. GALS is most often…
