gender

ILRI News on gender

15 Mar 2022

Celebrating International Women's Day with Alessandra Galiè

This blog was first published by Cambridge Global Food Security Interdisciplinary Research Centre profiling female researchers and academics involved in agriculture/food security every year for International Women's Day . To celebrate the 2022 International Women's Day theme of promoting women's...

Karen Hlaba CambPlants Administrator(Cambridge Global Food Security Interdisciplinary Research Centre)

ILRI News

07 Mar 2022

Improved forages empower smallholder women livestock keepers in Kenya and Ethiopia

Climate change is a global challenge that burdens all humanity, but not equally. The rural poor, particularly women, are more affected by climate-related shocks . Women and men in rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa who depend on farming as a primary source of livelihood are considered more...

Judy KimaniCommunications Specialist

ILRI News

06 Feb 2022

New film highlights women’s role in protecting the world’s rangelands and pastoral communities

Rangelands cover 54 per cent of the earth’s terrestrial surface and provide valuable ecosystem services such as water retention and carbon sequestration. They also support the livelihoods of millions of pastoralists who turn rangeland resources into food and livestock products. However, in the face...

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Publications on gender

Presentation

Published2022

Women in livestock: Breaking gender biases, shifting norms

Manual

Published2022

Field researcher guide: Gender-responsive study of phage adoption opportunities for chicken keepers in Kenya

Brief

Published2022

Gendered roles and disease management in small ruminant enterprises in agropastoral and pastoral systems: Implications for PPR control

Journal Article

Published2021

Introduction to special issue: Gender and rural development: Sustainable livelihoods in a neoliberal context

Brief

Published2021

Best practices that enable equitable gender relations can help overcome gender-based constraints among livestock keepers in Ethiopia: A look at four-value chain sites in Ethiopia

Working Paper

Published2021

Women’s tenure security on collective lands: A conceptual framework

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ILRI Projects on gender

May 2022Apr 2025

Reducing losses and zoonotic risks along the Burkina Faso poultry value chain through a One Health approach

Poultry disease in Burkina Faso is a major constraint to productivity and can negatively affect human health. Training of poultry producers and sellers on better farm and market practices, and effective business models that enhance value chain linkages can improve the safety and productivity of the...

Aug 2020Aug 2025

Feed the Future Animal Health Innovation Lab

The Feed the Future Animal Health Innovation Lab will develop local capacity in Kenya to carry out laboratory-based animal health research to improve East Coast fever vaccines and diagnostics and conduct social and economic evaluations of the effects of animal health interventions on human...

Dec 2019Apr 2022

Gender planning

Much effort has been geared towards ‘gender mainstreaming’ to ensure that women’s needs, capabilities and constraints are included in the development of technologies, practices and business approaches. Such mainstreaming in livestock often aimed to highlight the underplayed, invisible and...

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