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 (

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, using more borrowed or illegal land Fewer head of livestock than male-headed households Higher number of orphans living in female-headed households 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” 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

CRP 3.7 Gender Outputs (Continued): Output 3: Strategies and approaches that increase women and marginalized groups entitlement to access markets and control resources, technologies, labor, power and the benefits of their work Output 4: Strategies and approaches to promote increased level and equity in animal source food consumption within poor households

LIVES Gender Objectives To increase equity of gender roles in value chain nodes and chain governance of high value livestock commodities and irrigated crops To increase gender sensitive knowledge management and capacity building interventions in high value livestock commodities and irrigated crops To ensure gender sensitive approaches are used by LIVES’s research and development partners

Gender Sensitive Research Steps in Value Chain Development Map Gender Roles & Relationships along the VC Identify gender constraints along the VC Assess the consequences of the gender constraints Identify and implement actions to overcome constraints Carry out Action Research Measure outcomes of implementations

Integrating Gender in Agricultural VC 1. Mapping Gender Roles and Relations along the VC 2. Moving from Gender inequality to Constraints 3. Assessing the Consequences of Constraints 4. Taking Action 5. Action Research 6.Measuring Outcomes Source: Adopted from Gender Equitable Opportunities in Agricultural Value Chains, USAID, 2010

Gender sensitive knowledge management and capacity building research approach Identify formal/informal institutions involved in brokering knowledge and capacity development Identify knowledge and capacity development methods used by different institutions Identify knowledge magt/capacity building institutions and methods that ensure access for men and women Identify constraints and its implications on gender propose gender sensitive knowledge/capacity development intervention Action Research Measuring the outcomes of the intervention/actio n

Gender sensitive Knowledge Management and capacity building Research outputs/outcomes Diagnostic research output – Role of informal institutions/farmer to farmer in knowledge sharing by and for women – Couples training – Involvement of young family members in FHH Action research

Final Remarks The VC for all types of High value commodities should be seen through a gender lens while research agenda is set for LIVES Gender sensitive diagnostic and action research need to give insight on innovative ways of Knowledge Management and Capacity building interventions

Thank You!!