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2017-2018 GREAT Cereal Grains Course

GREAT participants practice research methods and tools during a field day on Day 7 of the GREAT Gender-responsive Cereals Breeding Course in August 2017.

Test out your learning with hands-on application

GREAT course participants and trainers interact with farmers as part of a field day to gain hands-on practice in using mixed-methods research tools.

Develop your professional skills with a GREAT course

GREAT trainer Brenda Boonabaana leads a session during the GREAT Gender-Responsive Cereal Grains Breeding course in August, 2017.

Photo Credit: Chris Knight, International Programs, CALS

Gain Hands-On Field Experience with GREAT

Participants in the GREAT Gender-responsive Root, Tuber and Banana Breeding Course celebrate at the end of a day practicing field data collection in September, 2016.

Develop your professional network

Course participants celebrate a birthday, and connections formed across projects, disciplines and countries.

GREAT Roots, Tubers and Bananas Course

Participants and trainers meet with women from Ziroobwe, Uganda to conduct a sex-disagreggated focus group discussion during the September 2016 GREAT course for root, tuber and banana researchers.

GREAT co-PI's Margaret Mangheni (l) and Hale Tufan

We have a GREAT vision: "To equip researchers to create more inclusive and effective agricultural systems by addressing the priorities of both women and men in sub-Saharan Africa"

About GREAT

GREAT courses equip researchers to create more inclusive and effective agricultural systems by addressing the priorities of both women and men in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).

GREAT delivers training to agricultural researchers from SSA in the theory and practice of gender-responsive research, seeking to increase opportunities for equitable participation and the sharing of benefits from agricultural research and improve the outcomes for smallholder women farmers, entrepreneurs, and farmer organizations across sub-Saharan Africa.

By building and engaging communities of researchers equipped with the skills, knowledge, and support systems to develop and implement gender-responsive projects, GREAT advances gender-responsiveness as the norm and standard for agricultural research.

GREAT is a collaboration between Cornell University in Ithaca, New York and Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda.