Is it reasonable to assume that a focus on selected value chains leads to cross-cutting research of a global nature? How can this link be strengthened? Please share your comments below Return to the list of questions Continue reading
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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
Week 2: Deciding the focus
As discussed in this e-consultation last week, the four CGIAR Centers involved in the livestock and fish Mega Program are committing to focus their efforts to catalyze development of a few carefully selected value chains in a few countries. This aims at generating direct significant impact in increasing production that can then be scaled out … Continue reading
Week 2-Question 1: Good process for deciding focus?
Week 2- Question 1: Good process for deciding focus? Do you think that the process used for deciding where to focus the Mega Program efforts is sufficiently reasoned and evidence-based (assuming that we now compile the data to support the choices)? Please comment on how the process could be improved or further strengthened. Share your … Continue reading
Week 2-Question 2: Relevant criteria for deciding where to focus?
Week 2-Question 2: Relevant criteria for deciding where to focus? Do you think that the criteria used for deciding where to focus the Mega Program are the most essential and relevant? Please comment on any specific criterion you feel is non-essential or is missing. Share your comments below: Return to list of questions for Week … Continue reading
Week 2-Question 3: Scaling out impact?
Week 2-Question 3: Scaling out impact? Do you think that successful impact from focussing in a selected value chain in one country can be scaled out to spill the impact over into other countries of the region? Please comment on what would need to be done to enhance spillover impacts. Share your comments below: Return … Continue reading
CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish 