Engendering Research in LIVES Value Chain

Development Interventions

Ephrem Tesema and Kathleen Colverson

March 26-28, 2013

Addis Ababa/ ILRI Campus

Outline

• Why engender research in LIVES?

• How does LIVES gender work intersect with

ILRI’s CG research plan on Livestock and Fish?

• Research approaches to incorporating

gender in all VC /Commodity work

• Concluding Remarks/Questions

Why “engender” research?

• In many countries, women make up a larger

percentage of the agricultural labor

• Women participate along the entire agricultural

value chain, contributing as producers, distributors,

processors, storers, and marketers, as well as, being

responsible for feeding their families

Women, on average,

comprise 43% of the

agricultural labor

force in developing

countries and

account for an

estimated two-thirds of the world’s 600 million poor livestock

keepers.

Farming First (http://www.farmingfirst.org/women)

Farming First (http://www.farmingfirst.org/women)

A significant share of households in all regions are headed by

women, yet their access to productive resources and services are

limited.

Women have:

• Less access to land, less money to buy land, usingmore borrowed or illegal land

• Fewer head of livestock than male-headedhouseholds

• Higher number of orphans living in female-headedhouseholds than male headed

USAID, 2003

• Fewer agricultural inputs, such as

improved seed and fertilizer, used by

female-headed households

• Less access to extension services and

improved technologies

State of Food and Agriculture FAO 2011

Could increase yields on farms by 20 – 30 percent which…

Could raise total agricultural output in developing countries

2.5 – 4 percent which…

Could reduce the number of hungry people in the world by 12

– 17 percent

CRP 3.7 Livestock and Fish Gender

Outcome and Outputs

Outcome:

“Poor women, men and marginalized groups have

improved and more equitable access to affordable

animal source foods through gender equitable

interventions”

http://livestock-

fish.wikispaces.com/Gender+and+Learning

CRP 3.7 Gender Outputs:

Output 1: Increased gender capacity within CG, partner

organizations, and value chain actors to diagnose and

overcome gender based constraints within value chains

Output 2: Strategies and approaches developed through

which women and marginalized groups improve the

nature and level of participation in livestock and fish

value chains