Week 3: How best to address gender issues

How best to address gender issues for increasing livestock and fish productivity for global food security? During Week 1 of this e-consultation, Ann Waters-Bayer stressed the importance of ensuring that women are at the forefront of our research-for-development efforts. The CGIAR system has certainly recognized this principle and has declared a renewed commitment to mainstreaming … Continue reading →

Week 3 – Question 1: Adequacy of a gendered value chain approach?

Is a gendered value chain approach adequate to meeting both the objectives of increasing productivity and gender-equitable poverty reduction in the livestock and aquaculture sectors? Please share your comments below Return to the list of questions Continue reading →

Week 3 – Question 2: Critical gender issues and trade-offs in livestock and fish value chains?

What are critical gender issues and trade-offs in participation in specific livestock and fish value chains? What are the key gender research questions that this program should focus on both within specific value chains and across all the livestock and fish value chains? Please share your comments below Return to the list of questions Continue reading →

Week 3 – Question 3: Key gender objectives for livestock and fish value chains?

What are the key gender objectives for livestock and fish value chains? What would be the approaches to achieve these gender objectives? How can overall project approaches be gendered to achieve food security, productivity and equity objectives? Please share your comments below Return to the list of questions Continue reading →

Week 3 – Question 4: Targeting project interventions to improve women’s access to technologies, services and products within fish and livestock value chains?

What are best strategies we can use in targeted project interventions to improve women’s access to technologies, services and products within fish and livestock value chains in: the development and dissemination of technology increasing economic and social benefits from these value chains equitable intra-household consumption Please share your comments below Return to the list of … Continue reading →

Face to face consultation: Notes from the Mali workshop

Mali Stakeholder Consultation on Shaping the CGIAR Mega Program on ‘More Meat, Milk, and Fish By and For the Poor’ Consultation meeting organized by ILRI, WorldFish, CIAT, and ICARDA, Bamako, Mali, 26 July 2010 Key issues discussed in this national workshop included: Why livestock and fish? How can we help small-scale producers meet new demands for … Continue reading →