Alessandra Galiè is the Team Leader: Gender at ILRI. She conducts research on gender in livestock value chains with a focus on gender analysis in genetics, empowerment and nutrition and food security. Before joining ILRI she worked at the International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) on gendered empowerment, seed governance and participatory plant breeding. She also worked in the NGO sector. She holds a PhD from Wageningen University and an MA in social anthropology of development from the University of London.

My Projects

Women in business

ACTIVE

Women in business: Chicken seed dissemination in Ethiopia and Tanzania

ILRI research project in Ghana

ACTIVE

Transforming the vaccine delivery system in Ghana: identifying approaches that benefit women

My Blog Posts

ILRI research project in Ghana

ILRI research project in Ghana is identifying approaches that benefit women in vaccine delivery

Building a Community: The Gender and Livestock Data Community of Practice

Ghana: Why the goats won't die on her watch

My Publications

Measuring women’s empowerment in agriculture: Innovations and evidence

  • Quisumbing, Agnes R.
  • Cole, Steven M.
  • Elias, Marlène
  • Faas, Simone
  • Galiè, Alessandra
  • Malapit, Hazel
  • Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.
  • Myers, Emily
  • Seymour, Greg
  • Twyman, J.

Is agricultural labour feminizing in South and South East Asia: Analysis of demography and health services data on women and work

  • Oloo, Stephen
  • Galiè, Alessandra
  • Teufel, Nils

Gender roles and masculinities in leveraging milk for household nutrition: Evidence from two districts in Rwanda

  • Farnworth, Cathy Rozel
  • Jumba, Humphrey
  • Otieno, P.E.
  • Galiè, Alessandra
  • Ouma, Emily A.
  • Flax, Valerie L.
  • Colverson, Kathleen E.
  • Schreiner, M.-A.
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Engaging fathers to support child nutrition increases frequency of children’s animal source food consumption in Rwanda

  • Flax, Valerie L.
  • Ouma, Emily A.
  • Schreiner, M.-A.
  • Ufitinema, A.
  • Niyonzima, E.
  • Colverson, Kathleen E.
  • Galiè, Alessandra

Training manual on entrepreneurship and canvas business plan development

  • Galiè, Alessandra
  • Abdela, Adera

Institutional and theoretical learning on gender analysis through the CGIAR Research Program on Livestock

  • Galiè, Alessandra
  • Pyburn, Rhiannon
  • Baltenweck, Isabelle
  • Quintero, S.