Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Legume Systems Research Course
In this spinoff course, GREAT and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) deployed a customized gender integration course for breeders and social scientists. The course adopted a participatory hands-on approach that equips participants with skills to conceptualize, design and plan appropriate gender-responsive research, and to analyze, interpret, and integrate qualitative and quantitative sex-disaggregated data.
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Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Legume Systems
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Course Objectives
- Recognize the relevance of gender to agriculture and plant breeding in sub-Saharan Africa
- Explain key concepts pertinent to market and gender-responsive plant breeding
- Conduct gender-responsive breeding priority setting
- Demonstrate the ability to design a gender responsive breeding program that draws on mixed methods (qualitative and quantitative methods)
- Recognise what it takes to conduct interdisciplinary research
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GREAT’s training team draws from diverse experts with deep experience in areas including plant breeding, gender theory, community development, sociology, communications, monitoring and evaluation, participatory research, rural development, and more