This document discusses new approaches and tools for achieving inclusive and gender-equal irrigation. It summarizes research from Ethiopia, Ghana, Tanzania, and Malawi on the different constraints and opportunities men and women face regarding irrigation. Two new tools are presented: a diagnostic tool to measure gender gaps in access to and control over irrigation benefits, and a learning tool to improve gender integration in irrigation planning. The tools involve sex-disaggregated focus groups to understand inequality in access to water, labor, decision-making, and control over income from irrigation. The goal is to ensure both men and women can benefit from expanded irrigation.
Elizabeth Bryan: Linkages between irrigation nutrition health and genderIFPRI Gender
A4NH and Gender Task Force seminar on Gender, Agriculture, and Health: Tracing the Links
Screencast recording: https://www.dropbox.com/s/zer79kc0vnsrsgy/2015-10-20%2009.31%2010_20%20A4NH_IFPRI%20Gender%20Task%20Force%20Seminar_%20Gender%2C%20agriculture%2C%20and%20health.mp4?dl=0
How can we take into account health in our agriculture, nutrition, and gender research? Health and nutrition are closely interrelated: health status influences nutritional outcomes, by mediating a person’s ability to utilize nutrients and lead a healthy life, and nutritional status influences health, by mediating a person’s vulnerability to various illnesses. Both health and nutrition are directly and indirectly affected by rural livelihood decisions related to agriculture, livestock, and water management. Livelihood decisions and duties are gendered, in that social identity influences an individual’s options and choices. Men and women’s exposure to health risks, capacity to provide health care, and access to health services often vary due to these differing roles and rights.
This seminar provides three case studies in how gender dynamics in rural livelihoods influence health, and in turn, nutrition. Intended as an introduction to topics in gender, health, and agriculture, the seminar will help researchers familiar with the agriculture-to-nutrition pathways begin to think about how health has bearings on this framework.
In the seminar, Kelly Jones will present on recent research that traces how livelihood shocks may increase HIV transmission through higher-risk sex, especially for women. Elizabeth Bryan will share early-stage research on the links between small-scale irrigation adoption, gender, and health and nutrition outcomes. Delia Grace will introduce a gender-sensitive participatory risk assessment framework for addressing food safety.
PIM Webinar conducted by Cheryl Doss (U of Oxford), Agnes Quisumbing (International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)) and Ruth Meinzen-Dick (IFPRI). More at http://bit.ly/GenderinAgMythsWebinar
Closing the gender gap in farming under climate chnageCGIAR
This presentation was given by Sophia Huyer on 30 May 2017, as part of the webinar 'Gender, climate change and agriculture'. The webinar was co-organized by the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research and the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS).
Read more about this webinar at: http://gender.cgiar.org/webinar-gender-climate-change-agriculture/
Find out about other webinars hosted by the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research: http://gender.cgiar.org/gender_events/webinars/
Integrating gender into livestock value chainsILRI
Presented by Kathleen Colverson at the Workshop on In-depth smallholder pig value chain assessment and preliminary identification of best-bet interventions, Kampala, 9-11 April 2013
Elizabeth Bryan: Linkages between irrigation nutrition health and genderIFPRI Gender
A4NH and Gender Task Force seminar on Gender, Agriculture, and Health: Tracing the Links
Screencast recording: https://www.dropbox.com/s/zer79kc0vnsrsgy/2015-10-20%2009.31%2010_20%20A4NH_IFPRI%20Gender%20Task%20Force%20Seminar_%20Gender%2C%20agriculture%2C%20and%20health.mp4?dl=0
How can we take into account health in our agriculture, nutrition, and gender research? Health and nutrition are closely interrelated: health status influences nutritional outcomes, by mediating a person’s ability to utilize nutrients and lead a healthy life, and nutritional status influences health, by mediating a person’s vulnerability to various illnesses. Both health and nutrition are directly and indirectly affected by rural livelihood decisions related to agriculture, livestock, and water management. Livelihood decisions and duties are gendered, in that social identity influences an individual’s options and choices. Men and women’s exposure to health risks, capacity to provide health care, and access to health services often vary due to these differing roles and rights.
This seminar provides three case studies in how gender dynamics in rural livelihoods influence health, and in turn, nutrition. Intended as an introduction to topics in gender, health, and agriculture, the seminar will help researchers familiar with the agriculture-to-nutrition pathways begin to think about how health has bearings on this framework.
In the seminar, Kelly Jones will present on recent research that traces how livelihood shocks may increase HIV transmission through higher-risk sex, especially for women. Elizabeth Bryan will share early-stage research on the links between small-scale irrigation adoption, gender, and health and nutrition outcomes. Delia Grace will introduce a gender-sensitive participatory risk assessment framework for addressing food safety.
PIM Webinar conducted by Cheryl Doss (U of Oxford), Agnes Quisumbing (International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)) and Ruth Meinzen-Dick (IFPRI). More at http://bit.ly/GenderinAgMythsWebinar
Closing the gender gap in farming under climate chnageCGIAR
This presentation was given by Sophia Huyer on 30 May 2017, as part of the webinar 'Gender, climate change and agriculture'. The webinar was co-organized by the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research and the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS).
Read more about this webinar at: http://gender.cgiar.org/webinar-gender-climate-change-agriculture/
Find out about other webinars hosted by the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research: http://gender.cgiar.org/gender_events/webinars/
Integrating gender into livestock value chainsILRI
Presented by Kathleen Colverson at the Workshop on In-depth smallholder pig value chain assessment and preliminary identification of best-bet interventions, Kampala, 9-11 April 2013
Nicoline de Haan presented on WLE's Gender work on March 10, 2015 at the European Commission in Brussels as part of their International Cooperation and Development Infopoint Conference series.
For more information on WLE's Gender, Poverty, and Institutions Research Theme, please visit: http://wle.cgiar.org/research-programs/gender-poverty-and-institutions/
Accounting for gender-related structures of agricultural value chainsIFPRI-PIM
Presentation by Tanguy Bernard, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI, made during the “International value chains in agriculture: challenges and opportunities to address gender inequalities” session at the WTO PUBLIC FORUM 2016
Future-smart Research Agendas: Engaging and Empowering Stakeholders through F...WorldFish
Future-smart Research Agendas: Engaging and Empowering Stakeholders through Foresight.
Presentation by Michael Phillips, Ranjitha Puskur, Sarah Park, Sharon Suri (AAS), Robin Bourgeois (GFAR).
Inclusive international agricultural value chains: The case of coffee in Ethi...IFPRI-PIM
Presentation by Bart Minten, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI, made during the “International value chains in agriculture: challenges and opportunities to address gender inequalities” session at the WTO PUBLIC FORUM 2016
Collecting sex disaggregated agricultural data through surveys IFPRI-PIM
Presentation for the webinar on Collecting sex-disaggregated agricultural data through surveys that took place on April 21, 2016. Learn more about the webinar here: http://bit.ly/1SkWcSx
PIM Gender team members Cheryl Doss and Caitlin Kieran invited participants to discuss how the "Standards for collecting sex-disaggregated data for gender analysis" drafted by PIM in 2014 have been used to date, with a specific focus on lessons learned by CGIAR centers and external partners.
The webinar was co-organized by the CGIAR Gender and Agriculture Research Network and the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM).
Presented by Kathleen Earl Colverson at the Africa RISING Integrating Gender into Agricultural Programming training, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 18-20 August 2014
A trainer's manual" (available at http://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/33426)
Organization and Social Process in Bringing Agroecology to ScaleFAO
Presentation from Peter Rosset, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR-Mexico) and Via Campesina, describing the inter-linkages between Agroecology and social movements. The presentation was prepared and delivered in occasion of the International Symposium on Agroecology for Food Security and Nutrition, held at FAO in Rome on 18-19 September 2014.
Presented in ACIAR-IFPRI two days Regional Dialogue on Machine Reforms’ for Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture in South Asia on July 21-22, 2017 in New Delhi, India
Rhiannon Pyburn, Illiana Monterroso, Hazel Malapit, Katrina Kosec, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Jennifer Twyman, and Dina Najjar
POLICY SEMINAR
Crafting the Next Generation of CGIAR Gender Research
Co-Organized by the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets and IFPRI
OCT 30, 2019 - 12:15 PM TO 01:45 PM EDT
Gender division of labour Often it is assumed that women will automatically benefit from new infrastructure, without acknowledging that it has a significant social impact. Both men and women tend to be considered mainly as beneficiaries of infrastructure projects, rather than as active participants, or as specific groups whose daily and seasonal tasks can be substantially affected. For example, a transport project will usually impact on women as transportors of products for household use and as small traders. Improved transport facilities may also impact on women and men by promoting or encouraging changes to agricultural production, such as a shift to cash crop production. If infrastructure is not designed in view of the range of needs of its different users, the impact on women and their workload can be immense. For example, in irrigation projects, competing household uses for water for cropping, livestock and cooking/washing should be addressed as well as arrangements for collecting and carrying water. The design and location of water systems may fulfil multiple purposes if these different uses are taken into account (Hunt 1997: 71). Access and control of resources and benefits Access to information and employment opportunities in an infrastructure project can be limited for women. Women are employed as construction labourers in a number of regions and both women and men may need to migrate to construction sites. Construction camps are frequently poorly serviced and unsafe for children, and construction sites may give little attention to occupational health and safety. As potential beneficiaries of infrastructure projects, constraints affecting women can include: lack of credit and other collateral, such as money for a fare or a bicycle; the location of a facility such as a water pump; and the gender composition of project management groups, such as water user groups or community‐based advisory committees. New infrastructure may adversely affect the existing access of women to land for agricultural production, housing, fuel and wood collection among other things.
Women, irrigation and social norms in Egypt: "The more things change, the mor...CGIAR
This presentation was given by Dina Najjar (ICARDA), as part of the Annual Gender Scientific Conference hosted by the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research. The event took place on 25-27 September 2018 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, hosted by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and co-organized with KIT Royal Tropical Institute.
Read more: http://gender.cgiar.org/gender_events/annual-conference-2018/
Nicoline de Haan presented on WLE's Gender work on March 10, 2015 at the European Commission in Brussels as part of their International Cooperation and Development Infopoint Conference series.
For more information on WLE's Gender, Poverty, and Institutions Research Theme, please visit: http://wle.cgiar.org/research-programs/gender-poverty-and-institutions/
Accounting for gender-related structures of agricultural value chainsIFPRI-PIM
Presentation by Tanguy Bernard, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI, made during the “International value chains in agriculture: challenges and opportunities to address gender inequalities” session at the WTO PUBLIC FORUM 2016
Future-smart Research Agendas: Engaging and Empowering Stakeholders through F...WorldFish
Future-smart Research Agendas: Engaging and Empowering Stakeholders through Foresight.
Presentation by Michael Phillips, Ranjitha Puskur, Sarah Park, Sharon Suri (AAS), Robin Bourgeois (GFAR).
Inclusive international agricultural value chains: The case of coffee in Ethi...IFPRI-PIM
Presentation by Bart Minten, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI, made during the “International value chains in agriculture: challenges and opportunities to address gender inequalities” session at the WTO PUBLIC FORUM 2016
Collecting sex disaggregated agricultural data through surveys IFPRI-PIM
Presentation for the webinar on Collecting sex-disaggregated agricultural data through surveys that took place on April 21, 2016. Learn more about the webinar here: http://bit.ly/1SkWcSx
PIM Gender team members Cheryl Doss and Caitlin Kieran invited participants to discuss how the "Standards for collecting sex-disaggregated data for gender analysis" drafted by PIM in 2014 have been used to date, with a specific focus on lessons learned by CGIAR centers and external partners.
The webinar was co-organized by the CGIAR Gender and Agriculture Research Network and the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM).
Presented by Kathleen Earl Colverson at the Africa RISING Integrating Gender into Agricultural Programming training, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 18-20 August 2014
A trainer's manual" (available at http://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/33426)
Organization and Social Process in Bringing Agroecology to ScaleFAO
Presentation from Peter Rosset, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR-Mexico) and Via Campesina, describing the inter-linkages between Agroecology and social movements. The presentation was prepared and delivered in occasion of the International Symposium on Agroecology for Food Security and Nutrition, held at FAO in Rome on 18-19 September 2014.
Presented in ACIAR-IFPRI two days Regional Dialogue on Machine Reforms’ for Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture in South Asia on July 21-22, 2017 in New Delhi, India
Rhiannon Pyburn, Illiana Monterroso, Hazel Malapit, Katrina Kosec, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Jennifer Twyman, and Dina Najjar
POLICY SEMINAR
Crafting the Next Generation of CGIAR Gender Research
Co-Organized by the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets and IFPRI
OCT 30, 2019 - 12:15 PM TO 01:45 PM EDT
Gender division of labour Often it is assumed that women will automatically benefit from new infrastructure, without acknowledging that it has a significant social impact. Both men and women tend to be considered mainly as beneficiaries of infrastructure projects, rather than as active participants, or as specific groups whose daily and seasonal tasks can be substantially affected. For example, a transport project will usually impact on women as transportors of products for household use and as small traders. Improved transport facilities may also impact on women and men by promoting or encouraging changes to agricultural production, such as a shift to cash crop production. If infrastructure is not designed in view of the range of needs of its different users, the impact on women and their workload can be immense. For example, in irrigation projects, competing household uses for water for cropping, livestock and cooking/washing should be addressed as well as arrangements for collecting and carrying water. The design and location of water systems may fulfil multiple purposes if these different uses are taken into account (Hunt 1997: 71). Access and control of resources and benefits Access to information and employment opportunities in an infrastructure project can be limited for women. Women are employed as construction labourers in a number of regions and both women and men may need to migrate to construction sites. Construction camps are frequently poorly serviced and unsafe for children, and construction sites may give little attention to occupational health and safety. As potential beneficiaries of infrastructure projects, constraints affecting women can include: lack of credit and other collateral, such as money for a fare or a bicycle; the location of a facility such as a water pump; and the gender composition of project management groups, such as water user groups or community‐based advisory committees. New infrastructure may adversely affect the existing access of women to land for agricultural production, housing, fuel and wood collection among other things.
Women, irrigation and social norms in Egypt: "The more things change, the mor...CGIAR
This presentation was given by Dina Najjar (ICARDA), as part of the Annual Gender Scientific Conference hosted by the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research. The event took place on 25-27 September 2018 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, hosted by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and co-organized with KIT Royal Tropical Institute.
Read more: http://gender.cgiar.org/gender_events/annual-conference-2018/
Lecture: Gender, Agriculture and Climate Change, Jennifer Twyman, CIATCIAT
A lecture on Gender, Agriculture and Climate Change, given by Dr. Jennifer Twyman (Gender specialist at CIAT) for the MSc program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security at the National University of Ireland (NUI) Galway
2015 WASH e-Summit (Part 1): An Introduction to Water, Sanitation, and Hygien...Rotary International
View the recording: https://vimeo.com/142525709
Brought to you by Rotary and the Water and Sanitation Rotarian Action Group, this first of three webinars provides an overview of WASH (water, sanitation, and hygiene education) in Schools programs.
New to WASH in Schools? Join sector experts to learn about the importance of WASH in Schools efforts and the various hardware and software components that make these club and district-led projects impactful and sustainable.
Presentation by Catherine Mungai from the Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) at the workshop on Gender and Climate-Smart Agriculture in Eastern and Southern Africa Region: Case studies and lessons from 02 to 04 November 2016, Nairobi, Kenya
Presentation at the Dupont Forum. The panel will look at how investing in technologies is insufficient on its own to enact effective agricultural water management, and will explore the importance of accompanying context appropriate policies and institutions.
Gender and water technologies: Water lifting for irrigation and multiple purp...IFPRI-PIM
This presentation was given by Likimyelesh Nigussie (IWMI), as part of the Annual Scientific Conference hosted by the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research. The event took place on 5-6 December 2017 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where the Platform is hosted (by KIT Royal Tropical Institute).
Read more: http://gender.cgiar.org/gender_events/annual-scientific-conference-capacity-development-workshop-cgiar-collaborative-platform-gender-research/
Gender and water lifting technologies: water lifting irrigation and multiple ...CGIAR
This presentation was given by Likimyelesh Nigussie (IWMI), as part of the Annual Scientific Conference hosted by the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research. The event took place on 5-6 December 2017 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where the Platform is hosted (by KIT Royal Tropical Institute).
Read more: http://gender.cgiar.org/gender_events/annual-scientific-conference-capacity-development-workshop-cgiar-collaborative-platform-gender-research/
Presentation on Mapping rural women's empowerment in Ethiopia ckmtraining
Presented by Annet Mulema at the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research Second Annual Scientific Conference, ILRI, Addis Ababa, 25-28 September 2018
Trans-disciplinary science to impact tropical forest landscapes - Jeff Sayer, University of British Columbia. Measuring the Impact of Integrated Systems Research (September 27, 2021 – September 30, 2021). Three-day virtual workshop co hosted by the CGIAR Research Programs on Water Land and Ecosystems (WLE); Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA); Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM); and SPIA, the Standing Panel on Impact Assessment of the CGIAR. The workshop took stock of existing and new methodological developments of monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment work, and discussed which are suitable to evaluate and assess complex, integrated systems research.
Theory-Based Approaches for Assessing the Impact of Integrated Systems Research - Brian Belcher, Royal Roads University. Measuring the Impact of Integrated Systems Research (September 27, 2021 – September 30, 2021). Three-day virtual workshop co hosted by the CGIAR Research Programs on Water Land and Ecosystems (WLE); Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA); Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM); and SPIA, the Standing Panel on Impact Assessment of the CGIAR. The workshop took stock of existing and new methodological developments of monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment work, and discussed which are suitable to evaluate and assess complex, integrated systems research.
Challenges and opportunities for using remote sensing data - Kathy Baylis, University of California, Santa Barbara. Measuring the Impact of Integrated Systems Research (September 27, 2021 – September 30, 2021). Three-day virtual workshop co hosted by the CGIAR Research Programs on Water Land and Ecosystems (WLE); Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA); Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM); and SPIA, the Standing Panel on Impact Assessment of the CGIAR. The workshop took stock of existing and new methodological developments of monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment work, and discussed which are suitable to evaluate and assess complex, integrated systems research.
Reviewing the evidence on implementation and long-term impact of integrated landscape approaches - James Reed, CIFOR. Measuring the Impact of Integrated Systems Research (September 27, 2021 – September 30, 2021). Three-day virtual workshop co hosted by the CGIAR Research Programs on Water Land and Ecosystems (WLE); Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA); Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM); and SPIA, the Standing Panel on Impact Assessment of the CGIAR. The workshop took stock of existing and new methodological developments of monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment work, and discussed which are suitable to evaluate and assess complex, integrated systems research.
Some musings on evaluating the impacts of integrated systems research - Karl Hughes, PIM. Measuring the Impact of Integrated Systems Research (September 27, 2021 – September 30, 2021). Three-day virtual workshop co hosted by the CGIAR Research Programs on Water Land and Ecosystems (WLE); Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA); Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM); and SPIA, the Standing Panel on Impact Assessment of the CGIAR. The workshop took stock of existing and new methodological developments of monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment work, and discussed which are suitable to evaluate and assess complex, integrated systems research.
What makes impact research challenging? What have been done so far? Results from CGIAR research - Natalia Estrada Carmona. Measuring the Impact of Integrated Systems Research (September 27, 2021 – September 30, 2021). Three-day virtual workshop co hosted by the CGIAR Research Programs on Water Land and Ecosystems (WLE); Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA); Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM); and SPIA, the Standing Panel on Impact Assessment of the CGIAR. The workshop took stock of existing and new methodological developments of monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment work, and discussed which are suitable to evaluate and assess complex, integrated systems research.
Use of Qualitative Approaches for Impact Assessments of Integrated Systems Research: Our Experience - Monica Biradavolu, SPIA. Measuring the Impact of Integrated Systems Research (September 27, 2021 – September 30, 2021). Three-day virtual workshop co hosted by the CGIAR Research Programs on Water Land and Ecosystems (WLE); Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA); Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM); and SPIA, the Standing Panel on Impact Assessment of the CGIAR. The workshop took stock of existing and new methodological developments of monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment work, and discussed which are suitable to evaluate and assess complex, integrated systems research.
FTA’s experience in measuring impacts of research on integrated systems - Vincent Gitz, FTA. Measuring the Impact of Integrated Systems Research (September 27, 2021 – September 30, 2021). Three-day virtual workshop co hosted by the CGIAR Research Programs on Water Land and Ecosystems (WLE); Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA); Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM); and SPIA, the Standing Panel on Impact Assessment of the CGIAR. The workshop took stock of existing and new methodological developments of monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment work, and discussed which are suitable to evaluate and assess complex, integrated systems research.
Measuring the impact of integrated systems research
Panel Speakers: Vincent Gitz, Natalia Estrada Estrada Carmona, Monica Biradavolu and Karl Hughes. Measuring the Impact of Integrated Systems Research (September 27, 2021 – September 30, 2021). Three-day virtual workshop co hosted by the CGIAR Research Programs on Water Land and Ecosystems (WLE); Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA); Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM); and SPIA, the Standing Panel on Impact Assessment of the CGIAR. The workshop took stock of existing and new methodological developments of monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment work, and discussed which are suitable to evaluate and assess complex, integrated systems research.
Why does OneCGIAR need Integrated Systems Research? - Holger Meinke, University of Tasmania & ISDC. Measuring the Impact of Integrated Systems Research (September 27, 2021 – September 30, 2021). Three-day virtual workshop co hosted by the CGIAR Research Programs on Water Land and Ecosystems (WLE); Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA); Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM); and SPIA, the Standing Panel on Impact Assessment of the CGIAR. The workshop took stock of existing and new methodological developments of monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment work, and discussed which are suitable to evaluate and assess complex, integrated systems research.
Agronomic advances for understanding soil health
By Job Kihara, Agronomist, Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT
Innovations in soil health monitoring for nature and people
From Research to Resilience
WLE webinar series
October 28, 2021
Innovations in Soil Health Monitoring: Combining Systematic Field Assessments with Spectroscopy and Earth Observation
By Leigh Ann Winowiecki, WLE/CIFOR-ICRAF
Innovations in soil health monitoring for nature and people
From Research to Resilience
WLE webinar series
October 28, 2021
By Padmaja Ravula
Senior Scientist – Sociologist, Gender and Nutrition Research
Global Research Program: Enabling Systems Transformation Cluster: Gender and Youth
Securing inclusive land restoration
From Research to Resilience
WLE webinar series
October 25, 2021
By Ermias Betemariam, Land Health Scientist, World Agroforestry (ICRAF)
Securing inclusive land restoration
From Research to Resilience
WLE webinar series
October 25, 2021
By Deepa Joshi, Gender, Youth and Inclusion Lead, WLE (IWMI)
Securing inclusive land restoration
From Research to Resilience
WLE webinar series
October 25, 2021
By Fabrice DeClerck, Science Director, EAT Forum & Senior Scientist, Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT
Boosting synergies and managing trade-offs in food systems
From Research to Resilience
WLE webinar series
October 21, 2021
Sustainable management of commons to boost synergies: A case study on India
By Wei Zhang, Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute
Boosting synergies and managing trade-offs in food systems
From Research to Resilience
WLE webinar series
October 21, 2021
Building climate resilience across scales
participatory – farmer-led – community action
By Sander Zwart, IWMI
Managing water for climate adaptation and mitigation
From Research to Resilience
WLE webinar series
October 19, 2021
Lessons learnt towards building pathways for innovation: India
By Apoorve Khandelwal, CEEW India
Innovation investment for impact
From Research to Resilience
WLE webinar series
October 14, 2021
Mining the Gaps: Mapping The Research on Small Farms in the Global South
By Jaron Porciello, Cornell University
Innovation investment for impact
From Research to Resilience
WLE webinar series
October 14, 2021
Observation of Io’s Resurfacing via Plume Deposition Using Ground-based Adapt...Sérgio Sacani
Since volcanic activity was first discovered on Io from Voyager images in 1979, changes
on Io’s surface have been monitored from both spacecraft and ground-based telescopes.
Here, we present the highest spatial resolution images of Io ever obtained from a groundbased telescope. These images, acquired by the SHARK-VIS instrument on the Large
Binocular Telescope, show evidence of a major resurfacing event on Io’s trailing hemisphere. When compared to the most recent spacecraft images, the SHARK-VIS images
show that a plume deposit from a powerful eruption at Pillan Patera has covered part
of the long-lived Pele plume deposit. Although this type of resurfacing event may be common on Io, few have been detected due to the rarity of spacecraft visits and the previously low spatial resolution available from Earth-based telescopes. The SHARK-VIS instrument ushers in a new era of high resolution imaging of Io’s surface using adaptive
optics at visible wavelengths.
Seminar of U.V. Spectroscopy by SAMIR PANDASAMIR PANDA
Spectroscopy is a branch of science dealing the study of interaction of electromagnetic radiation with matter.
Ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy refers to absorption spectroscopy or reflect spectroscopy in the UV-VIS spectral region.
Ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy is an analytical method that can measure the amount of light received by the analyte.
BREEDING METHODS FOR DISEASE RESISTANCE.pptxRASHMI M G
Plant breeding for disease resistance is a strategy to reduce crop losses caused by disease. Plants have an innate immune system that allows them to recognize pathogens and provide resistance. However, breeding for long-lasting resistance often involves combining multiple resistance genes
Nutraceutical market, scope and growth: Herbal drug technologyLokesh Patil
As consumer awareness of health and wellness rises, the nutraceutical market—which includes goods like functional meals, drinks, and dietary supplements that provide health advantages beyond basic nutrition—is growing significantly. As healthcare expenses rise, the population ages, and people want natural and preventative health solutions more and more, this industry is increasing quickly. Further driving market expansion are product formulation innovations and the use of cutting-edge technology for customized nutrition. With its worldwide reach, the nutraceutical industry is expected to keep growing and provide significant chances for research and investment in a number of categories, including vitamins, minerals, probiotics, and herbal supplements.
Nucleophilic Addition of carbonyl compounds.pptxSSR02
Nucleophilic addition is the most important reaction of carbonyls. Not just aldehydes and ketones, but also carboxylic acid derivatives in general.
Carbonyls undergo addition reactions with a large range of nucleophiles.
Comparing the relative basicity of the nucleophile and the product is extremely helpful in determining how reversible the addition reaction is. Reactions with Grignards and hydrides are irreversible. Reactions with weak bases like halides and carboxylates generally don’t happen.
Electronic effects (inductive effects, electron donation) have a large impact on reactivity.
Large groups adjacent to the carbonyl will slow the rate of reaction.
Neutral nucleophiles can also add to carbonyls, although their additions are generally slower and more reversible. Acid catalysis is sometimes employed to increase the rate of addition.
Phenomics assisted breeding in crop improvementIshaGoswami9
As the population is increasing and will reach about 9 billion upto 2050. Also due to climate change, it is difficult to meet the food requirement of such a large population. Facing the challenges presented by resource shortages, climate
change, and increasing global population, crop yield and quality need to be improved in a sustainable way over the coming decades. Genetic improvement by breeding is the best way to increase crop productivity. With the rapid progression of functional
genomics, an increasing number of crop genomes have been sequenced and dozens of genes influencing key agronomic traits have been identified. However, current genome sequence information has not been adequately exploited for understanding
the complex characteristics of multiple gene, owing to a lack of crop phenotypic data. Efficient, automatic, and accurate technologies and platforms that can capture phenotypic data that can
be linked to genomics information for crop improvement at all growth stages have become as important as genotyping. Thus,
high-throughput phenotyping has become the major bottleneck restricting crop breeding. Plant phenomics has been defined as the high-throughput, accurate acquisition and analysis of multi-dimensional phenotypes
during crop growing stages at the organism level, including the cell, tissue, organ, individual plant, plot, and field levels. With the rapid development of novel sensors, imaging technology,
and analysis methods, numerous infrastructure platforms have been developed for phenotyping.
What is greenhouse gasses and how many gasses are there to affect the Earth.moosaasad1975
What are greenhouse gasses how they affect the earth and its environment what is the future of the environment and earth how the weather and the climate effects.
This presentation explores a brief idea about the structural and functional attributes of nucleotides, the structure and function of genetic materials along with the impact of UV rays and pH upon them.
Toxic effects of heavy metals : Lead and Arsenicsanjana502982
Heavy metals are naturally occuring metallic chemical elements that have relatively high density, and are toxic at even low concentrations. All toxic metals are termed as heavy metals irrespective of their atomic mass and density, eg. arsenic, lead, mercury, cadmium, thallium, chromium, etc.
ESR spectroscopy in liquid food and beverages.pptxPRIYANKA PATEL
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Sophie Theis: New approaches for Inclusive Irrigation
1. Photo Credit Goes Here
Photo credit: IWMI Flickr, Ghana and Ethiopia
Africa Water Week Side Event, July 21, 2016
Frederick Kahimba (SUA), Jennie Barron (IWMI), Maureen Mnimbo (SUA),
Mary Ndaro (CARE), Sophie Theis (IFPRI)
New Approaches for Inclusive Irrigation: Tools and Findings
from Tanzania, Ghana, Ethiopia, and Malawi
2. Photo Credit Goes Here
Photo credit: IWMI Flickr, Ghana and Ethiopia
Sophie Theis, International Food Policy Research Institute
Africa Water Week, Dar es Salaam, July 21, 2016
New Tools for Inclusive Irrigation: Understanding and
Measuring Gender Equality in Irrigation
3. • With increasing interest and investments in irrigation for food
& nutrition security, climate resilience, ag productivity, income
generation, and so on, how can we ensure irrigation
expansion is inclusive of both men and women?
4. GENDER RESEARCH IN THE ILSSI:
ETHIOPIA, GHANA, TANZANIA
• Qualitative research
• Household survey analysis
• Three gender and irrigation workshops (March/April
2016): Workshop resources from Ethiopia, Ghana,
and Tanzania
• ILSSI Gender and Irrigation Project Note
• Blogpost on workshops: Investigating Gender
Dynamics in Irrigation
• YouTube videos from the workshops
• Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Small-Scale
Irrigation (ILSSI) project website
5. INCLUSIVE IRRIGATION IS PROBABLY NOT:
• Every man and woman has their own
motor pump?
• Men and women have to do all the
same work?
• Specialization is OK
• Women’s workloads are already very
heavy, and workload does not
guarantee economic empowerment
• How to increase economic
empowerment without increasing
workload?
• It is common to have some degree of
joint ownership and decision making
over technology, land, production
• Do men and women have equal
opportunity to invest, if interested?
6. Understanding gender-
based differences,
including how men and
women have:
…helps to answer these questions:
Different preferences Can both men and women access and
benefit from irrigation water and
technologies if they want to?
Different constraints
Different risks What will be the impacts of an irrigation
intervention? Given who has access/control,
how will benefits (water, crops, income) be
used?
Different opportunities
7. BOTH MEN AND WOMEN FACE
CONSTRAINTS TO IRRIGATION
Constraints exist, but many tend to be more severe for women than men
Access to land
Access to credit
Access to information/training/groups
Access to markets
Access to hired labor
Challenges with water governance (e.g. distance to canal, timing of water)
Time availability and energy (in context of other chores/workload)
Social norms and cultural appropriateness
Decision making power in community decisions (e.g. water allocations)
Decision making power in household decisions (e.g. use of income)
8. DESPITE WORK IN IRRIGATED
AGRICULTURE, WOMEN OFTEN LACK
CONTROL OVER BENEFITS
“During cultivation there is love at home, good talks like, ‘this year after we
harvest we will make this and that, and we will take our child to there and do
this for him.’ You use all your energy, and when harvesting
time comes, after taking the sacks in the warehouse, and
you touch him, then conflict will rise in the house, and he will
tell you, ‘With the little income we have, do you think we can manage big
things as those?’ Then you keep quiet.”
9. OVERALL BENEFITS, BUT LACK OF
CONTROL OVER INCOME
“How I have understood her it’s this way, she has understood the changes
gained [from irrigation] is that we have gained to build good
houses... In most cases, this is how men behave: he harvests 100 sacks of paddy
and he doesn’t put them at home, instead he stores it in a warehouse, after it has dried
up, he sells without notifying you, while you are thinking it’s 100 sacks of
paddy he has already sold some of it, and when you go to check only 40 sacks of
paddy left behind the rest you don’t know where they went, and if you
ask it’s a conflict inside the house. He only cares you are living in a good
house, you have a TV and good utensils then he expects you to be satisfied. It means
men consume a lot.”
“Irrigation cultivation has brought up mistresses since there is income, he goes and
collect there.”
“These warehouses destroy our husbands.”
10. LOTS OF VARIATION BETWEEN PLACES
AND OVER TIME, SO IMPORTANT TO
KNOW THE CONTEXT
“There are men who like to supervise everything by themselves and other families
like participatory.”
“There are families which are dictatorship form while others are cooperative.”
“Women used to fetch water in the past but recently men are the ones who fetch
water in Mawemairo. When you go to water sources you may find only 1 woman out
of 20 women, and may be that woman is fetching water because the husband is
travelled but men are fetching water for home uses and for livestock.”
“Things have changed, in the past women were partially involved in the business
but recently women are the administrator in the business. In business, they are
mostly involved in the financial management.”
11. IMPLEMENTING THE AMCOW GENDER STRATEGY
AMCOW Gender Strategy goal Contribution of this Tool
1. Gender approach to implement project
interventions at all levels within the water
sector, including economic empowerment
through equal access to water for productive
purposes developed and adopted
Can be used to conduct a gender
analysis for project interventions in
the water sector
Primarily focused on economic
empowerment through equal access
to water for productive purposes
2. Strategic research and collection of operational
information on gender undertaken, produced,
shared, and used by stakeholders to inform
evidence based responses
Provides a framework for recording
and sharing information between
stakeholders on gender equality in
irrigation
3. Monitoring and Evaluation system and
indicators to support gender equality
interventions in the water sector developed and
implemented
Can be used to develop indicators for
interventions
12. 2 NEW GENDER & IRRIGATION TOOLS
Diagnostic for Gender Equality in
Irrigation
Gender in Irrigation Learning and
Improvement Tool
• Measures the current gender gap in
access to and control over irrigation and
its benefits, including labor burden,
decision making power
• Assesses and improve gender integration
in irrigation scheme planning
• Ask questions in sex-disaggregated Focus
Group Discussions, compares men and
women’s responses as the “irrigation
gender gap”
• Ask questions in sex-disaggregated Focus
Group Discussions
• Helps identify the key issues where there
is gender inequality (individual
technologies and collective schemes)
• Helps to identify ways to enhance
women’s participation in decision making
in formal irrigation schemes
• Based on 3 workshops and qualitative
research in Tanzania, Ghana, Ethiopia.
• Planning to pilot in fall 2016
• Based on extensive stakeholder
consultations
• Field tested in Uzbekistan and Malawi
13. TOPICS IN THE DIAGNOSTIC
Topic
Basic Information Main sources of water & technologies used for irrigation
Section A Access to Water for Multiple Uses
Section B Rules about Water
Section C Division of Labor
Section D Control over Benefits/Income from Irrigation
Section E Access to and Control over Irrigation Technologies
18. What is gender equality in irrigation?
• Equal opportunities, based on access to credit, labor, information, and
land, to adopt affordable irrigation technology that meets user’s needs
• Tailored training for men and women on irrigation and agronomic
practices
• Equal access to and control over collective water resources (e.g.,
irrigation canals, small reservoirs)
• Meaningful participation in community and household decision making
about water use and allocation
• Control over the use of irrigation (e.g., what plots, crops are watered);
the benefits of irrigation (e.g., use of income, food); and access to
markets (e.g., inputs, sale of irrigated produce)
• Reduced workload related to water distribution and application for all
water uses
19. THANK YOU!
Source: IWMI Flickr
Additional Resources:
• Feed the Future Innovation
Lab for Small-Scale Irrigation
(ILSSI)
• ILSSI Gender and Irrigation
Project Note
• Resources from gender and
irrigation workshops in
Ethiopia, Ghana, and
Tanzania
• Blogpost on workshops
• YouTube videos from the
workshops
Editor's Notes
This presentation is on our recent gender work under the ILSSI project that has led to the development of new tools for inclusive irrigation to help practitioners and policymakers understand and measure gender equality in irrigation. A lot of people are interested in gender mainstreaming and women’s empowerment in the irrigation sector, but they don’t know how to do it in practice, so these tools are meant to empower practitioners to make this more concrete and context specific.
Do both have opportunities to adopt irrigation technologies if they want to?
I’ll share some ideas from our qualitative and quantitative research as well as workshops on gender and irrigation held in Ethiopia, Ghana, and Tanzania.
To begin with, here are two common misconceptions about inclusive irrigation
What technologies do men and women actually want, and what ownership modality?
You might wake up in the morning and say let me start with the farm then I get back to home chores, you are alone and father isn’t around, you have to follow the water and they tell you wait [for the canal water], while waiting you decide to dig, and you find yourself until noon you haven’t eaten a thing, you come back home and find other duties waiting for you, at the same time you haven’t even irrigated the farm. That’s why women’s health has deteriorated here due to lack of food.
Even if an intervention is meant “for everyone,” can unintentionally exclude people if it is assumed everyone has the same preferences and constraints.
In most cases it is likely that men and women, even in the same household, have different preferences, constraints, risks, opportunities because of their gender roles and responsibilities.
Different preferences with respect to technologies, financing, sharing vs. individual ownership, making community decisions on water
Different constraints (discussed next slide) women tend to have less access to land, credit, information, decision-making power at household and community levels, etc)
Different risks (e.g. safety issues, domestic violence upon adopting an intervention)
Different opportunities (e.g. what will men and women grow if they have access to irrigation technologies? How will men and women use the income from irrigation technology?)
These are based in different roles and responsibilities related to water and agriculture, cultural appropriateness, and gender-based constraints
But let’s look at what women say (Tanzania qualitative work).
In a house which has peace and love, it’s an agreement, discussion between the man and woman; but if there is no love and respect you find confrontation until you delay in working on that season until it gets finished. In most cases, men involve us in decision making but during harvesting you are left behind, I don’t know how others see it.
So this led to our interest in developing a tool for practitioners that captures local context of different constraints, preferences, risks, and opportunities of men and women of different social groups. Such a tool would also help implement three goals articulated in the AMCOW gender strategy which seeks guidance on project interventions, including water for economic empowerment, strategic research for evidence-based responses, and M&E indicator to support gender equality interventions.
African Ministers Council on Water (AMCOW) Gender Strategy (2011)
Both tools are hyperlinked in draft form here – feedback is still invited
GILIT: (access to scheme resources, participation in irrigation management, and access to benefits from irrigation)
the extent to which an intervention has allowed for meaningful participation of women in decision making
Asks a series of opinion questions on each of these topics for the gender of the respondent in that community
Captures the constraints to benefiting from irrigation for both men and women
Compares scores to look at the key gender gaps as well as the challenges for both men and women
The findings can inform the design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of irrigation interventions that are more effective and equitable because they take into account gender-based and other social differences
Compare to traditional qualitative protocol
Afterwards, responses from the single-sex discussions can be compared. The larger the difference in scores, the greater gender inequality exists in the community. Higher scores indicate better access to and control over irrigation. These results can be discussed in a mixed focus group discussion, community meeting, or with community leaders. As this tool is tested in the field, further guidelines will be developed to interpret the scores.
Box from our gender equality in irrigation policy note
Add links to additional resources
Additional tools available on water supply and sanitation – not included here.
The scoring scales therefore reflect the different levels of investment, engagement and effort to achieve optimal gender outcomes. The emphasis of the tool is not necessary the scores. The discussion around each statement enables scheme participants, managers and investors to reflect on performance and to identify ways to improve gender equitability. The tool is useful for reporting purposes and for assessing improvement in cases where the tool is implemented at different project phases. The table is not intended to be fixed or universal across all contexts; instead, it should be adjusted to account for the degree of difficulty to achieve gender equitability in each local context.
Three areas of measurement are chosen in relation to men’s and women’s: i) access to scheme resources (including information, such as in the design phase; land, water, and other inputs); ii) participation in scheme membership, leadership, and decision-making; and iii) access to scheme benefits, including access to market information, packaging, and payments from product sales or processing, depending on the location and crop.