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Ag, nutrition, gender toolkit available
A new online toolkit and accompanying report, produced by two Dutch development agencies, SNV and Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), offers important guidance on how and why to address undernutrition...
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Development of a project-level WEAI begins at the GAAP2 inception workshop
The second phase of the Gender, Agriculture and Assets Program (GAAP2) is hosted within A4NH. GAAP2 aims to develop measurements for women’s empowerment in agricultural development programs and a large...
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Improving Nutrition in India: Taking Flight with WINGS
All over the world, people are paying attention to the transformative role of women’s groups. Women, when organized in groups, have been able to achieve change within their communities, households, and...
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Special issue: Gender in Agriculture Partnership newsletter
To mark this week’s third Global Conference on Agriculture for Development (GCARD3) taking place in Johannesburg, South Africa from April 5-8, A4NH is pleased to share with you a special issue of the...
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Gendered pathways need gendered approaches
Women watering crops in Ethiopia. (IFPRI/F.G.Mariam) A new magazine article in Rural 21: The International Journal for Rural Development references the A4NH gender strategy in presenting why really...
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A4NH co-hosts seminar on value chains for nutrition in India
Women during fruit harvest in India. (Photo credit: E.Hermanowicz/Bioversity International) This week, A4NH is joining together with IFPRI's Gender Task Force to host a seminar on Value Chains for...
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New guide on using indicator for women’s dietary diversity
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), with funding from the European Union, and the USAID-funded Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance III Project (FANTA) recently...
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Assets: Key to Prosperity
The last few blog posts have talked about the pro-WEAI indicator that is being developed as part of the second phase of the Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project (GAAP2). Perhaps some of you were...
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Transforming gender-relations in agriculture through women’s empowerment
This month on A4NH’s Gender-Nutrition Idea Exchange, we welcome commentary from our research partners at Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA) on the benefits, challenges, and...
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Using qualitative methods to study value chains for nutrition in rural India
This month on the Gender-Nutrition Idea Exchange, we speak to Sarah Kehoe (Senior Research Fellow at the MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, UK) about her study on value chains...
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A4NH joins panel of first in a series of new gender webinars
Webinar: Closing the gender data gap for agricultural policy and investment Date: 4 October 2016 Time: 15.30 CET (Rome); Duration: 1.5 hours max View the original announcement here. What does equal...
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Women’s empowerment linked to more diverse diets in rural Ethiopia
This month’s post on the A4NH’s Gender-Nutrition Idea Exchange looks at how women’s empowerment affects nutrition outcomes in one of A4NHs priority countries, Ethiopia. We speak to Feiruz Yimer and...
View ArticleReach, benefit, or empower: Clarifying gender strategies of development projects
In light of growing evidence on the important role of women in agriculture, development projects are increasingly incorporating gender in their project strategies. In this blog, Sophie Theis and Ruth...
View ArticleProgress in designing and implementing the project-level WEAI
The second phase of the Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project (GAAP2) is hosted by A4NH. This blog, originally posted on the GAAP website, is part of a series of blogs about GAAP2 topics such as the...
View ArticleA framework for measuring women’s empowerment at multiple levels
Gender and equity are cross-cutting themes across the five flagship programs of the CGIAR’s Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH). In this blog, Dr. Kathryn Yount, Professor...
View ArticleProject in Bangladesh Aims to Strengthen Links Between Agriculture,...
The Ministry of Agriculture in Bangladesh is implementing the three-year Agriculture, Nutrition, and Gender Linkages (ANGeL) Project, which aims to identify actions and investments in agriculture that...
View ArticleCountdown to ANH Academy Week 2017: Learning Lab on Measuring Women’s...
Are you hoping to integrate measures of women’s empowerment into your work? A4NH researchers Hazel Malapit, Jessica Heckert, and Elena Martinez will present a Learning Lab about using the Women’s...
View ArticleResearchers highlight gender and equity at the ANH Academy Week
Gender and equity were hot topics of discussion at the 2017 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Health (ANH) Scientific Symposium and Academy Week. Over 300 researchers from many disciplines and countries...
View ArticleRural mothers, gender equity, and scaling up biofortification
In the western Ugandan district Kakumiro, Nakijoba Anet Wadega teaches other mothers about preparing nutritious and balanced meals, proper hygiene behaviors, and growing biofortified crops like orange...
View ArticleGender roles in agriculture: Did anything change?
In March 2017, IFPRI’s Development Strategy and Governance Division (DSGD) published a discussion paper about changing gender roles in agriculture, based on an analysis of 20 years of data from Ghana....
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