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Women in Odisha, India, successfully shoulder responsibility in leading their families through the COVID-19 crisis.

Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
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Women in rural Nepal prosper from training program on soil fertility management practices.

Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
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Technical and business training provides women with opportunities to break barriers and improve livelihoods.

Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
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Experts from Ethiopia and Kenya join CIMMYT and other partners to renew a long-standing collaboration under the auspices of the new AGG project.

Climate adaptation and mitigation
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The new AGG project aims to respond to the climate emergency and gender nexus through gender-intentional product profiles for its improved seed varieties and gender-intentional seed delivery pathways.

Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
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Income-generating benefits of improved maize varieties hampered by patriarchal gender norms in rural Nigeria.

Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
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Workshop participants exchange ideas on expanding opportunities for women in the seed sector.

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On International Youth Day, CIMMYT captures images of sub-Saharan African youth to celebrate their immense contributions to agriculture, farming systems, service provision and research and development.

Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
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Source: Down to Earth (17 Jul 2020)

Study finds that women in India adopt specific strategies to further their interests in the context of wheat-based livelihoods.

Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
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CGIAR socio-economic researchers have developed a standardized set of farm household survey questions to improve dataset comparability over space and time.

Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
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7 ways to make small-scale mechanization work for African farmers.

Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
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CIMMYT Scaling Advisor emphasizes importance of context and systemic thinking in how we do our research and implement projects.

Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
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The two-wheel tractor has proven its worth in Africa’s smallholder farms thanks to the FACASI project.

Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
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New study presents a typology of women’s decision-making in wheat in India.

Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
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A lack of consistent keywords when tagging research is leading to holes in searches for gender research across CGIAR, the world’s largest network of agricultural researchers. A more systematic and sharper use of keywords when describing datasets will improve findability in searches.