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The Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project (GAAP), led by IFPRI and ILRI, has published a Toolkit on Collecting Gender & Assets Data in Qualitative & Quantitative Program Evaluations.
Over the past decade, donor organizations, researchers, and development practitioners have recognized the importance of collecting mixed methods gender and assets data using mixed methods in monitoring & evaluation and impact evaluation of development programs. Nonetheless, many researchers and practitioners remain unsure of why or how to do this. This toolkit has been developed as part of the Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project (GAAP) to assist researchers and practitioners who are either new or unfamiliar with using mixed methods for gender and assets data collection and analysis.
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Science Workshops - Putting Gender on the Map, IFPRI, January 2012
Gender mapping offers an important step toward greater awareness of the diverse gender roles in agricultural farm-management systems, but gaps remain between field reality and the understanding of gender relations in research, on the one hand, and between the researchers‘understanding and what can be displayed on a map, on the other.
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African Agriculture: From Meeting Needs to Creating Wealth
Be sure and download this outstanding report entitled African Agriculture: From Meeting Needs to Creating Wealth that was produced by the Mo Ibrahim Foundation for its 2011 Forum held on November 13, 2011 in Tunis. (AWARD is mentioned on p. 35).
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Closing the Gap Between Men and Women in Agriculture
Share your views about this creative two-minute film from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. What practices are working in your community to help close this gap?
AWARD Fellow Folake Samuel has been promoted from Lecturer II to Lecturer I in the Department of Human Nutrition, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. The promotion is effective from 2009. Samuel, who earned a PhD in human nutrition from the University of Ibadan, is currently involved in analyzing the nutritional value of common African foods to promote their use in rural Nigerian households.
AWARD Fellow Mojisola Olayinka Edema has been appointed as Associate Director of the Gender Issues Program at the Federal University of Technology, Akure. With a PhD in microbiology, Edema has been busy mentoring female students and young lecturers, which has had a positive impact on her colleagues.
AWARD Fellow Elsie Hamadina was recently invited to give a presentation at the Fundamental for Life: Soil, Crop, and Environmental Sciences Conference in San Antonio, Texas, under the auspices of the American Society of Agronomy (ASA), Crop Science Society of America (CSA), and Soil Science Society of America (SSA). The title of her talk, delivered on October 17, 2011, was “The Effect of Provenance, Growth, and Storage Agro-Ecology on the Timing of Sprouting in Yam (d.Rotundata Poir)”.