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CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research is marking International Women’s Day 2019 with videos, interviews and publications from across the CGIAR system, in support of the United Nations' theme: 'Think equal, build smart, innovate for change'.  CGIAR research supports women’s equality and innovation, and Science Leaders reflect critically on CGIAR’s capacity for impact on gender equality.  Contributions: overcoming institutional inertia; ‘tempered radicals’;  how parboiling technologies developed by AfricaRice are affecting rural women in Cote D’Ivoire;  an interactive timeline from WorldFish outlining how its work on Gender Transformative Approaches has developed since 2012;  one woman's inspiring life story from the Africa RISING project;  how climate-smart agriculture technologies reduce women’s drudgery;  how migration and income shocks intersect;  how inequalities are shaped by social, economic, political as well as ecological con...

The VALUE4HER project will increase incomes and employment opportunities for women by linking women-led agribusinesses with competitive high value regional and global markets, and improving women business leader’s technical and managerial skills, with training on market dynamics, to grow their agribusinesses further. The project, which will run initially for 2 years ( 2018–2020 ), will target women who own agribusinesses that operate in horticulture, grains, dairy, poultry, or fisheries value chains. Key activities include: Development of a digital database of women entrepreneurs for each region. Training women on business leadership and managerial skills. Development of one women’s agribusiness e-hub in each region, which will offer services to women entrepreneurs. Organisation of one ‘business-to-business’ fair and match-making event in each region. Provision of a competitive innovation fund to enhance linkages with women lower down the value chain and initiate efficiency measure...

11 February 2019.  Accra, Ghana. In recognition of the gap in access and participation in science for women and girls, the United Nation (UN) adopted a resolution in December 22nd of 2015, to make every 11th of February the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. While the current decade has witnessed significant progress in mainstreaming gender through engagement of women and girls in science, much is left to be desired. For example, only around 30% of females study Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) related courses in higher institutions. In Sub-Saharan Africa, where women represent about 50% of the workforce in agriculture, only one in four agricultural researchers is female , with very few in leadership positions. In sustaining the momentum of the Comprehensive Africa Agricultural Development Program (CAADP), as underpinned by the African Union Agenda 2063 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the FARA recognizes the role of ma...

29 November 2018 . The African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD) is marking a decade since its founding. This event brings together actors in agricultural research and development to discuss gains made in advancing inclusive agricultural research and how to accelerate these. Download the programme : There are a couple of newly published videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il2IkcocCXA and a special ten year report