African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD)(2022-07-31)
The One Planet Women project aims to support women scientists from francophone West Africa working at the intersection of climate change and agriculture through a career development model that combines mentoring, scientific ...
Child malnutrition is one of the most used indicators for tracking progress towards attainment of Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG2) and the impacts of development interventions. Unfortunately, the current methods for ...
Du Jour, Frantz Roby Point; Mundler, Patrick(Institute of Caribbean Studies, 2022-06)
Aflatoxins in crops pose a risk to food safety and have been detected in samples of Haitian peanuts. Using an interdisciplinary commodity chain approach, this paper examines the factors that increase the likelihood of ...
Where does digital technology fit in with livestock farming? Can flying animal vaccines in by drone to remote regions help address gender inequality? Find out on this special episode of The Boma! In this podcast, we hear ...
In Nepal, women are often the primary caretakers of goats. However, they experience differentiated access to animal health services due to caste. Women from upper castes have better access to veterinary services, inputs, ...
In Uganda, the majority of rural households are engaged in livestock rearing. Livestock is reared by both men and women, and in some pastoral communities, sick animals are left in the care of women while men take healthy ...
When women’s animals are not vaccinated, the animals pose a risk to spread of disease in the wider community. The LVIF study’s broad purpose was to understand the reasons that prevent the livestock and poultry of women and ...
The study’s broad purpose was to understand the reasons why animal health workers overlook women in service delivery. In order to understand this, the study looked at the different identities and roles of women, not just ...
This learning guide examines several case studies related to women’s participation in raising livestock and the livestock vaccine delivery system in Ghana. Each case study includes background information, objectives, and ...
Women small-scale farmers depend heavily on small livestock for their income. As they are also responsible for caring for diseased animals, they are disproportionately affected (by these livestock diseases). SheVax+ is ...
In Ghana, 3 million farmers depend on livestock farming for food and income. However, Newcastle disease, peste des petits ruminants and contagious caprine pleuropneumonia, result in high mortality rates in goats and poultry, ...
In Ghana, backyard poultry and goat production systems are the most predominant and play a key role in the livelihoods of smallholder farmers especially women, who are usually in charge of these species in the household. ...
Peste des petits ruminants (PPR), Rift Valley fever and Newcastle disease, are highly contagious livestock diseases. Vaccinations are available to protect livestock, but women farmers rarely benefit. Barriers include a ...
MEAL Coordinator & Community Extension Project Officers(2022-09-20)
The Women Rear project in Ghana focuses on transforming vaccine delivery system for chickens and goats. It is a four-year IDRC funded project running from March 2019 to March 2023. Is seeks to identify, test, and monitor ...