Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
Gender and other social differences such as age, wealth and ethnicity, have an enormous influence upon the success of agricultural interventions. To ensure equitable impacts and benefits to rural people, CIMMYT emphasizes inclusive research and development interventions. Starting with the collection of data on gender and social differences, efforts are underway to address these gaps and ensure equitable adoption of technologies and practice. This includes working towards gender-equitable control of productive assets and resources; technologies that reduce womenâs labor; and improved capacity of women and youth to participate in decision-making.
CGIAR Initiative: Securing the Food Systems of Asian Mega-Deltas (AMD) for Climate and Livelihood Resilience
Climate adaptation and mitigation
CGIAR Initiative: Transforming Agrifood Systems in South Asia (TAFSSA)
Climate adaptation and mitigation
The power of data in improving conditions for female farmers
Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
With the help of big data, CIMMYT researchers in Bangladesh partner with Michigan State University and local NGOs to pinpoint opportunities to increase womenâs participation in farm extension training sessions.
Researchers use storytelling to evaluate women’s agency in agricultural production
Capacity development
A study in India highlights who does what in wheat farming to support the design of gender-responsive interventions in the region.
CGIAR Plant Health Initiative formally launched on the International Day of Plant Health
Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
The Initiative targets a broad range of pests and diseases affecting cereals, legumes, potato, sweet potato, cassava, banana and other vegetables.
New publications: Caste-gender intersectionalities in wheat-growing communities in Madhya Pradesh, India
Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
Study reveals gaps and interactions between caste, gender and agricultural decision-making.
Turning data swamps into data lakes
Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
New metadata schema will make it easier for scientists to find and reuse open-access data.
Celebrating the life of Rosalind Morris, trailblazer for women in agriculture
Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
An outstanding wheat cytogeneticist and professor, she peacefully passed away a few weeks shy of her 102nd birthday.
Inspiring change through agricultural training: Womenâs stories from Bangladesh
Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
More than 40% of the global agricultural labor force is made up of women, and in the least developed countries, two in three women are employed in farming.
Who does what in maize farming in Kenya?
Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
Study deepens the understanding of womenâs and menâs roles in maize plot management to guide gender-responsive maize breeding and seed system interventions.
Being the change you wanted to see as a young girl
Capacity development
Agricultural scientist Madhulika Singh shares her experience as the first woman in STEM in her family and in her society in Bihar, India.
Gender-transformative research for sustainable food systems
Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
Discover groundbreaking research from CIMMYT and CGIAR to promote gender equality in agriculture and achieve a sustainable future.
Bending gender norms: womenâs engagement in agriculture
Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we spoke to Pragya Timsina about how womenâs participation in agriculture is evolving across the Eastern Gangetic Plains and her findings which will be included in a paper coming out later this year: âNecessity as a driver of bending agricultural gender norms in South Asiaâ.
