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Challenging Barriers to Women’s Leadership in Cooperatives
Brief
Apr 23, 2013
Giselle Aris
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Training Material
Mar 27, 2013
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A Guide to Integrating Gender into Agricultural Value Chains
Value chain development is at the core of USAID’s agricultural programming. It is a key feature of new initiatives, and is a primary pathway for achieving the goal of increasing agricultural growth and expanding the staple food supply. The improved market-based coordination that is the hallmark of value chains reduces...read more
Guidance Document
May 16, 2013
Deborah Rubin and Cristina Manfre
Gender Equality and Female Empowerment Policy
Gender equality and female empowerment are core development objectives, fundamental for the realization of human rights and key to effective and sustainable development outcomes. No society can develop successfully without providing equitable opportunities, resources, and life prospects for males and females so that...read more
Policy Document
May 16, 2013
FEED THE FUTURE M&E Guidance Series: Volume 6: Measuring the Gender Impact of Feed the Future
Gender and Food SecurityThe Feed the Future initiative has been developed around the hypothesis that including the poorer and more economically vulnerable populations in agricultural economic growth strategies will have a transformative effect on regional economies – restructuring local production, distribution, and...read more
Guidance Document
May 16, 2013
Feed the Future: Global Food Security Research Strategy
The President’s Global Hunger and Food Security Initiative, titled “Feed the Future (FTF)”, has the overarching goal of sustainably reducing global poverty and hunger. Providing sufficient food to the world’s growing population will require a 70 percent increase in agricultural production by 2050 (Bruinsma 2009). To...read more
Publication
May 15, 2013
Strengthening Agricultural Extension and Advisory Systems: Procedures for Assessing, Transforming, and Evaluating Extension Systems
The purpose of this book is to provide information on how to transform and strengthen pluralistic agricultural extension and advisory systems in moving toward the broader goal of increasing farm income and improving rural livelihoods. The focus of this book is primarily on the technical knowledge, management skills, and...read more
Publication
May 14, 2013
Burton E. Swanson and Riikka Rajalahti
Guidelines for innovation platforms: Facilitation, monitoring and evaluation
The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) has published guidelines for facilitation, monitoring and evaluation of innovation platform processes and outcomes. Although the guidelines were developed specifically for the West Africa-based project on Sustainable management of globally significant endemic...read more
Training Material, Guidance Document
May 14, 2013
Pamela Pali and Kees Swaans
MEAS Brief # 1: Options and Strategies for Information and Communication Technologies within Agricultural Extension and Advisory Services
ICT is different from information technology because it emphasizes the role of communications and the integration of telecommunications networks and computer networks. The communications component is critical when it comes to technology that is intended to deepen understanding, reach communities, and allow more people...read more
Publication, Brief
May 11, 2013
Karen Vignare
Options and Strategies for Information and Communication Technologies within Agricultural Extension and Advisory Services
The term “ICT” has been around since the 1980s, when it was popularized in the United Kingdom. ICT is different from information technology (IT) because it stresses the role of communications and the integration of telecommunications networks and computer networks.The communications component is critical when designing...read more
Publication
May 11, 2013
Karen Vignare
MEAS Brief # 2: Reducing the Gender Gap in Agricultural Extension and Advisory Services: How to Find the Best Fit for Men and Women Farmers
Agriculture is a fundamental driver of economic growth and poverty reduction for many developing countries. Past efforts at revitalizing the agriculture sector have failed in part because they overlooked the role of women and the negative effects of gender inequalities on productivity. According to The State of Food and...read more
Publication
May 11, 2013
Cristina Manfre and Deborah Rubinet al
MEAS Case study # 2: Women Extension Volunteers (Ghana)
Women Extension Volunteers (Ghana): An Extension Approach for Female Farmers. by Miriam Hird-Younger, Engineers Without Borders, Canada, and Brent Simpson, Michigan State UniversityMEAS Case Study # 2. May 2013 This case study explores the Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) Ghana’s women extension volunteer (WEV...read more
Publication
May 11, 2013
Miriam Hird-Younger and Brent Simpson

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