Our experience shows that community conversations are an effective way of empowering community groups to identify and analyse gender relations concerns and enabling community members to take collective actions. Continue reading
Category Archives: PIL
Include us, involve us – women can be active players in Kenya’s livestock markets
Women livestock traders are a tiny minority in the male-dominated cattle trading sector in Kenya. But they don’t see themselves staying at the periphery of a growing livestock economy – they want in. Garissa, Kenya (29 Nov 2018)_ Garissa City in northeast Kenya is home to East Africa’s largest livestock market. It was also the … Continue reading
Gendered perspectives on smallholder cattle production and health management in Tanzania
This study provides a gender analysis of animal health in small-scale dairy farming and the food security implications in three villages of Tanzania. Continue reading
Tanzania livestock master plan sets out sector investment priorities
A series of briefs was recently published outlining the main priorities emerging from the Tanzania livestock master plan analysis: Continue reading
Ex-ante impact assessment of African swine fever control and market integration in Ugandan smallholder pig value chains
An ex-ante impact assessment was used to assess the impact of the ASF biocontrol and other interventions in peri-urban pig value chains in Uganda. Continue reading
Small ruminants and food security: Goats are cattle gifted for the poor
A recent study by Scientists at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) investigated the role of small ruminant production for food security and explored the different perspectives of men and women on the role of small ruminants in alleviating food insecurity. Continue reading
Ethiopia livestock value chain development partners trained on gender capacity development
Twenty-five livestock value chain development experts and researchers were trained on gender capacity development in a course facilitated by ILRI and ICARDA on 23-27 October 2017. Continue reading