Eliminating malnutrition is one of the greatest challenges of our time. Poor quality diet is a principal cause of malnutrition and a top risk factor of morbidity and mortality globally (Wang et al., 2017). Nutrition programs ...

“GENNOVATE: Enabling gender equality in agricultural and environmental innovation” is a collaborative study that represents an unprecedented initiative in the CGIAR in its scale and comprehensiveness for examining gender ...

In 2015, the governments of 193 countries agreed on “Agenda 2030,” a charter of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). They also committed to “Leave No One Behind” (LNOB) in order to ensure that everyone is able to benefit ...

This methodological brief offers a window onto GENNOVATE’s innovative collaborative research initiative to promote gender equality in agricultural and natural resource management. GENNOVATE (‘Enabling gender equality in ...

A number of persistent myths slow down agricultural innovation in wheat and maize in Nepal. Myth 1. Men are the main decision makers. Myth 2. Women don’t do much in wheat and maize. Myth 3. Women don’t innovate. Myth 4. ...

Banana production is an important livelihood for farming households in the East-African highlands as food and as a source of income. Banana is a crop with a long history in this region. Although not originating from Africa, ...

Innovation in agriculture and natural resource management (NRM) that ignores gender inequality is limited in its impact and risks worsening the poverty, workload, and wellbeing of poor rural women and their families. Due ...

In parts of rural India, particularly those experiencing male outmigration, norms are shifting to accommodate open recognition of women as farmers and managers of wheat and as adopters of associated technologies including ...

This resource sets out simple suggestions for ensuring that women as well as men feel included in training events, are fully informed about technological options, learn effectively, and have the confidence to implement ...

Conservation agriculture (CA) has received considerable attention as a cost-saving, soil and water-conserving set of practices in many farming systems around the world. It is built around a core set of interlocking soil ...