Gender in agricultural mechanization: Key guiding questions

This tool describes case studies of gender implications in mechanization in RTB crops, illustrating both positive and negative outcomes. GENNOVATE research has shown that the beneficiaries of mechanization tend to be the wealthier rather than the poorer farmers and more often men than women. However, results also reveal that women have strong interest in mechanization as a way to improve their own circumstances

Sharing experiences and developing collaboration to integrate gender in breeding programs.

RTB as leader of the Gender and Breeding initiative has been interacting with the Excellence in Breeding Platform EiB to promote a formal integration of gender into product profile development processes. Currently, there are some tools available from the Gender and Breeding Initiative that will be piloted with some breeding programs. On the other hand, many breeding programs are also working with a variety of tools and approaches on initiatives like ABACUSBIO Ltd., RTBfoods, and others. The objective of the meeting is to share different experiences and tools used to integrate social differentiation and gender into product profile development and to develop collaboration within and between different researchers in the breeding programs

Assessing the benefits of Andean crop diversity on farmers' livelihood: insights from a development programme in Bolivia and Peru

This paper analyses the impact of a development programme designed at promoting the sustainable use of Andean Grain diversity. Results demonstrate that knowledge-sharing on agronomic practices, on benefits derived from consumption, and improving Andean Grain quality had a positive impact on income generation and farmer livelihoods. These results demonstrate the effectiveness of programmes aimed at improving rural livelihoods through greater knowledge transfer and use of local agrobiodiversity, wherein private benefits may incentivise the public benefits of agrobiodiversity use and conservation. Findings warrant the need to further monitor and evaluate the potential of agrobiodiversity to improve the well-being of rural communities

User Guide to the G+ Product Profile Query Tool (G+ PP)

This is a decision-support tool for assessing the gender-responsiveness of potential or actual breeding products (plant varieties and breeds of animals) for a defined segment of customers or users of the product. Men and women often have different roles and responsibilities in farming and agro-value chains, so they often need varieties that perform differently, requiring different traits in a new variety. You can use this tool to find out if you already have enough information to assess a breeding product for the customer segment of interest, or, if you don’t, the tool will identify precisely, what additional information you will need to find. After identifying the relevant gender “gaps” that influence adoption of plant varieties (or animal breeds) in the target customer segment, and gendered trait preferences, this tool generates a gender impact score based on analyses of “do no harm” and “positive benefit” for each trait of interest in a breeders’ product profile. The score summarizes the tool’s analysis of potential advantages and disadvantages of an actual orfuture variety formen and women. A breeding team, made up of plant breeders and social scientists, will use this tool to identify how a set of proposed traits will be harmful or beneficial to men and women and the trade-offs between different breeding objectives that this involves. The tool provides a questionnaire that requires answers in the form of expert judgments that should be supplied jointly by a social scientist experienced in using gender analysis and a breeder familiar with market-led breeding approaches. The G+ Product Profile Tool is meant to be used with the G+ Customer Profile Tool

User guide to the standard operating procedure for G+ tools (G+SOP)

The Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for the G+ Tools is designed for breeding teams with an interest in improving their gender-responsiveness. The SOP is a guide to using the G+ Tools as an input to team decisions about the importance of gender differences to (i) identify and describe their priority customer segments, and (ii) evaluate which product traits to prioritize for breeding. The SOP lays out a stepwise procedure for a team to organize the available evidence on gender differences in customer segments, identify crucial gaps in the evidence that may need to be filled, interpret the evidence and use the results for team decision-making. The SOP can also be used to generate a standardized G+ Report with the templates provided, so that the team has a record of their decisions about the implications of the gender differences considered, and the supporting evidence