GREAT Blog
12 March 2020
This article was originally posted on the Chicago Council of Global Affairs website, as part of their blog series, “Breaking Ground,” which explores how food systems innovation and agricultural research and development can empower farmers and feed the world. A special subsection of their series... more
30 November 2019
The original version of this article was posted on the website for the College of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences, Makerere University.
By Jane Anyango, Principal Communication Officer, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CAES), Makerere University
GREAT, in collaboration... more
30 March 2020
This article was originally posted on the Media Newswire page for the University of Georgia's College of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences. See the original post here.
By Allison Floyd, University of Georgia
The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Peanut at the University of Georgia... more
02 February 2020
With the latest GREAT course that wrapped up last month, 26 agricultural scientists from across Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia joined GREAT’s growing family of gender-responsive researchers – now 189 strong.
The GREAT course on gender-responsive plant breeding that began in July 2019, ended January... more
16 October 2019
By Hale Ann Tufan, GREAT PI
Note: this blog entry originally appeared on the World Food Prize Foundation's Borlaug Blog, in conjunction with Dr. Tufan receiving the 2019 Borlaug Field Award. The original post is available here: https://www.worldfoodprize.org/index.cfm/88533/18901/... more
25 September 2019
The Makerere training team had a retreat from 17th to 18th June, 2019. Attended by eleven team members, the retreat was held at the idyllic Malakai Eco-lodge in Kitende, Wakiso, Uganda. The purpose of the retreat was to build training capacity and engage in team building. It came at an opportune... more
29 July 2019
Despite 14 years of experience as a socio-economist, currently at the Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute’s (TARI) Kifyulilo Station, I was not sure if attending the GREAT Gender–Responsive Plant Breeding Course would be easy for me. I knew very little about plant breeding, and when filling... more
26 July 2019
Note: With Week 1 of the GREAT Theme 4 Gender-Responsive Plant Breeding Course currently underway in Kampala, we're highlighting perspectives from participants as they experience the course for themselves. Stay tuned for additional blogs!
How great is GREAT
By Eileen Nchanji, Gender Specialist... more
23 July 2019
Note: In late November, 2018, GREAT hosted its first Custom Course in Kampala, a six-day training for advanced teams from the Tropical Legumes III (TLIII) project. This blog is a continuation in a series on the training, kicked off with a post from ICRISAT gender scientist Esther Njuguna-Mungai,... more
23 July 2019
Note: this is the second in a series of blogs related to the first GREAT Custom Course, created for the Tropical Legumes III project in November 2018. The first blog in this series is available here.
When ICRISAT asked us to run our 14-day Gender-Responsive Plant Breeding course for scientists... more