Opportunities for promoting gender equality in rural Ethiopia through the commercialization of agriculture

Posted on 5 Jun 2010 by ILRI Communications • Leave a comment

This working paper by Lemlem Aregu, Clare Bishop-Sambrook, Ranjitha Puskur and Ephrem Tesema on Opportunities for promoting gender equality in rural Ethiopia through the commercialization of agriculture was released on 31 May, 2010 This paper discusses gender issues in the context of the Improving Productivity and Market Success (IPMS) of Ethiopian Farmers’ Project being implemented … Continue reading →

Ethiopia / ILRI / Livestock / Research / Women

Livestock research for women

Posted on 4 May 2010 by Peter Ballantyne (ILRI) • Leave a comment

If you educate a whole family it follows that a nation will be educated; women bare, sucker and most often are the prime educators of children. Many women, in the developing world, would increase their propensity to educate if they had greater access to livestock ownership and all the benefits it would inevitably produce. Recently … Continue reading →

Agriculture / Food Security / Livestock Systems / Women

Women in agriculture: Land O’Lakes looks at the opportunities

Posted on 11 Apr 2010 by Peter Ballantyne (ILRI) • 1 Comment

There is a joke circulating among development agencies in Uganda that updates the ‘give a man a fish’ slogan: “Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he’ll feed himself forever. Teach a woman to fish, and she’ll feed herself, her family, her neighbors and her … Continue reading →

Africa / Climate Change / Environment / Middle East / North Africa / Women

Climate change: Are women the solution?

Posted on 25 Nov 2009 by ILRI Communications • Leave a comment

It is often asserted that climate change will affect women the most in the developing world. That’s because most women will have to walk farther for drinking water, work harder to grow food, pull daughters out of school to help with family chores, and fuss more about family hygiene as the world – and particularly … Continue reading →

Asia / ILRI / India / Women

Livestock towards livelihood of small farmers in India

Posted on 12 Nov 2009 by ILRI Communications • Leave a comment

In India, of the 72% of the rural population,57% of the households (over 100 million) keep livestock as their only or important source of livelihood. Many of these (32%) small-scale livestock keepers have no access to land and depend on livestock as the only source of livelihood and the number of rural landless households is … Continue reading →

Women

Ostrom’s Nobel: Shedding paradigms

Posted on 28 Oct 2009 by ILRI Communications • Leave a comment

THE first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economics, Elinor Ostrom, is not even an economist, but a political scientist. For professional economists, it is a reminder that their profession has no monopoly in explaining the economic behavior of human beings. Indeed, the marriage between political science and economics into the compound discipline now … Continue reading →

Africa / Agriculture / East Africa / Ethiopia / ILRI / IPMS / Women

Gender and HIV/AIDS mainstreaming in a market-oriented agricultural development context: A training manual for frontline staff

Posted on 7 Oct 2009 by Zerihun Sewunet • Leave a comment

This manual by Lemlem Aregu, Clare Bishop-Sambrook and Ranjitha Puskur of ILRI and Aresawum Mengesha, Ephrem Tesema and Zahra Ali – independent consultants on Gender and HIV/AIDS mainstreaming in a market oriented agricultural development context: A training manual for frontline staff was released on 7 October, 2009. This training manual is based on experiences from … Continue reading →

Women

Behind the veil—Experts call to action: Invest in women, reverse poverty

Posted on 28 Sep 2009 by ILRI Communications • Leave a comment

Educated third-world girls will be healthier and will improve lives of others to create economic change, report says Jessica Leeder Unlocking the economic potential of hundreds of millions of girls and young women in the developing world through education and investment will make a major dent in global poverty, according to a new report released … Continue reading →

Biotechnology / East Africa / Women

Capital newspaper interview with Segenet Kelemu

Posted on 8 Jan 2009 by ILRI Communications • Leave a comment

Segenet Kelemu (PhD) is the Director of Biosciences East and Central Africa (BecA) Hub, located at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Nairobi, Kenya. Dr. Segenet is a renowned scientist who has published widely referenced journals, book contributions, manuals, conference/workshop papers, working documents, and others. She has supervised many graduate and undergraduate students from several … Continue reading →