This poster was presented by Hazel Malapit (A4NH / IFPRI) for the pre-Annual Scientific Conference meeting organized for the CGIAR research program gender research coordinators on 4 December. The annual scientific conference of the CGIAR collaborative platform for gender research took place on 5-6 December 2017 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where the Platform is hosted (by KIT Royal Tropical Institute). Read more: http://gender.cgiar.org/gender_events/annual-scientific-conference-capacity-development-workshop-cgiar-collaborative-platform-gender-research/

1. GENDER IN
NARRATIVE KEY CONCEPTS
CONTRIBUTIONS TO A CGIAR
GENDER RESEARCH FRAMEWORK
IMPROVED
FOOD AND
NUTRITION
SECURITY FOR
HEALTH
IMPROVED
NATURAL
RESOURCE
SYSTEMS AND
ECOSYSTEM
SERVICES
GENDER RESEARCH
QUESTIONS
RESEARCH OUTCOMES
BY IMPACT PATHWAY
IDOs AND CROSS-CUTTING
IDOs
• How do gender relations influence of the
choice of what is produced, what foods to
buy, and how safe and nutritious foods are
allocated within households?
• How do production choices influence
women’s work load and their own and their
families’ health and nutritional status?
• What context-specific strategies can be
used to engage women more equitably in
markets for nutritious and safe foods?
What constraints do women face in the
distribution and transportation of their
products to markets?
• Do men’s and women’s preference for the
way food is prepared and the choice of
preservation methods have a differential
effect on nutrition and food safety?
• How should biofortified crops be delivered
to meet men, women and girls’ preferences
and nutritional needs, support gender-
equitable decision-making in production
and consumption decisions, and avoid
harm to women’s time, work burden and
health status?
• How can adoption of biofortified crops be
promoted by targeting appropriate
household decision-makers, including men?
REDUCED
POVERTY
Improved diets for poor and
vulnerable people
Improved food safety
Improved human and animal
health
Increased incomes
and employment
Enhanced smallholder
market access
More sustainably
managed agro-ecosystems
CROSS-
CUTTING
ISSUES
Mitigation and
adaptation achieved
Equity and inclusion achieved
Enabling environment improved
National partners and
beneficiaries enabled
Increased productivity
Agri-food Value Chains
Pathway
• Producers: will use
inputs and capacity to
supply biofortified, safe,
and nutritious foods
• Chain agents: will use
methods and tools to
assess and enhance
nutrients
• Consumers or those
who make decisions
about their diets: will
make more informed
demand choices
regarding nutritious and
safe foods
• Regulators: will ensure
appropriate, effective,
food safety systems
IMPROVED
FOOD AND
NUTRITION
SECURITY FOR
HEALTH
IMPROVED
NATURAL
RESOURCE
SYSTEMS AND
ECOSYSTEM
SERVICES
GENDER RESEARCH
QUESTIONS
RESEARCH OUTCOMES
BY IMPACT PATHWAY
IDOs AND CROSS-CUTTING
IDOs
SLOs
• How can policymakers develop
cross-sectoral, gender-responsive
policies?
• How can policy reform provide
support for more egalitarian
gender roles that support good
health and nutrition?
• How does national policy affect
the ability of female farmers to
have equal opportunity for
success in integrated agriculture
programs?
• What types of integrated policy
actions can ensure that women
and men benefit equally from
integrated ANH programs?
• What models can be
recommended to partners
looking for agricultural programs
to address health and nutrition
problems among women and
children in the 1000 days window
of opportunity?
Policies Pathway
• Policymakers and
investors: have greater
capacity to access and
choose most
appropriate sectoral
responses and
investments based on
impact evidence
• Intergovernmental
agencies: will have
stronger evidence-
based tools and
approaches to transfer
to decision makers
• Stakeholders (civil
society organizations,
industry groups): have
access to evidence and
tools and use them to
inform their positions
and strategies
REDUCED
POVERTY
Improved diets for poor and
vulnerable people
Improved food safety
Improved human and animal
health
Increased incomes
and employment
Enhanced smallholder
market access
More sustainably
managed agro-ecosystems
CROSS-
CUTTING
ISSUES
Mitigation and
adaptation achieved
Equity and inclusion achieved
Enabling environment improved
National partners and
beneficiaries enabled
Increased productivity
IMPROVED
FOOD AND
NUTRITION
SECURITY FOR
HEALTH
IMPROVED
NATURAL
RESOURCE
SYSTEMS AND
ECOSYSTEM
SERVICES
GENDER RESEARCH
QUESTIONS
RESEARCH OUTCOMES
BY IMPACT PATHWAY
IDOs AND CROSS-CUTTING
IDOs
• How do the health risks and benefits of
agriculture –exposure to agricultural
diseases, strategic to manage risks, and the
impacts of diseases – vary by gender?
• How are gender dynamics and women’s
decision-making power associated with
improved child and women’s nutrition
outcomes?
• How can programs increase men’s support
for women’s important roles as guardians
in their families’ health and nutrition?
• How can agricultural development
interventions enhance women’s status
while avoiding harm to women’s time and
health?
• How can programs proactively include and
empower women so that they can harness
resources for their own and their families’
health and nutrition?
• What social and cultural adaptations need
to be made for programs to be effective in
specific contexts?
• What gender-responsive tools and
methodologies can be developed to
evaluate the impact of nutrition-sensitive
agricultural programs
Development
Programs Pathway
• Development program
implementers
(governments and
NGOs): will use research
evidence to improve
targeting, design, and
evaluation of ANH
programs
• Public health program
implementers: will
design appropriate and
effective disease control
and surveillance
programs based on risk
and benefit evidence
REDUCED
POVERTY
Improved diets for poor and
vulnerable people
Improved food safety
Improved human and animal
health
Increased incomes
and employment
Enhanced smallholder
market access
More sustainably
managed agro-ecosystems
CROSS-
CUTTING
ISSUES
Mitigation and
adaptation achieved
Equity and inclusion achieved
Enabling environment improved
National partners and
beneficiaries enabled
Increased productivity
Agri-Food Value Chains Impact Pathway
Policy Impact Pathway
Development Programs Impact Pathway
• Developing indicators, tools, and approaches for measuring
women’s empowerment in agriculture (Project WEAI, “Reach,
Benefit, Empower” framework)
• Expanding gender-agriculture-nutrition pathways to include
other links to other human health issues (FP5)
• Incorporating gender into research from a food systems/diets
perspective
• Expanding focus of cross-cutting research to explicitly include
equity and empowerment as well as gender
GENDER: A social category usually associated with being a man or woman that
encompasses economic, social, political, and cultural attributes, opportunities,
roles, and responsibilities
EQUITY: The principle that people should be treated as equals; guided by the
principles of equal life chances, equal concern for people’s needs, and meritocracy
EMPOWERMENT: Expansion of people’s ability to make strategic life choices,
particularly in contexts where this ability has been denied
Pathways between gender, nutrition, and health:
• Impact of gender-based differences on nutrition- and health-related outcomes
• Improving nutrition through women’s empowerment
• Avoiding unintended consequences of women’s well-being and empowerment
Women have always been at the forefront of A4NH’s research in nutrition and
health. Children of nutrient-deficient women are more likely to experience
poor development, morbidity, and mortality, and women are more likely than
men to suffer from nutritional deficiencies. Phase I research demonstrated
that gender matters for both women’s nutritional status and the pathways
linking agriculture to nutrition and health.
In Phase 2, A4NH will focus on gender research at the CRP and flagship levels,
and expand the focus of its cross-cutting research to include equity and
empowerment, guided by the Gender, Equity, and Empowerment (GEE) unit.
RESEARCH PRIORITIES
Flagship 1: Food Systems for Healthier Diets
• Value chain interventions for achieving improved nutrition
• Investigating how gender interacts with different points in the food chain,
including food choices
• Importance of gender in understanding countries’ food systems
Flagship 2: Biofortification
• Integration of gender in hypothesis development, data collection, and analysis
• Re-analysis of previously collected data through a gender lens
• Including the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) in
assessment studies of biofortified crops
Flagship 3: Food Safety
• Integration of gender issues in aflatoxin research
• Importance of involving women in food safety interventions and supporting
women to engage in formal markets
• Development of tools and metrics to assess food safety that consider bender-
based barriers to technology adoption
Flagship 4: Supporting Policies, Programs, and Enabling Action through Research
• Exploring new platforms to empower women in agriculture
• Developing new approaches to sensitize men about gender roles and equity
Flagship 5: Improving Human Health
• Gender differentials in exposure to health risks
• Gender differences in health benefits from agriculture
• Gender-inclusive decision-making for agricultural intensification
• How to engage men to support better health outcomes
Strategic Cross-Cutting Gender Research
• Building evidence on key conceptual and methodological questions
• Developing and validating indicators, tools, and metrics to measure impact
along the gender-nutrition-health pathways
• Adapting and validating a project-level Women’s Empowerment in agriculture
Index through the Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project, Phase 2 (GAAP2)