Navigating toward resilient and inclusive seed systems

OT Westengen, SP Dalle… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Food systems face new climatic and socioecological challenges and farmers need a
diversity of new plant varieties to respond to these. While plant breeding is important …

A case of transdisciplinarity and collaborative decision making: the co‐construction of Gendered Food Product Profiles

L Forsythe, O Olaosebikan, B Teeken… - Journal of the …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Crop breeding in sub‐Saharan Africa has made considerable gains; however, postharvest
and food‐related preferences have been overlooked, in addition to how these preferences …

Crowdsourcing priorities: a new participatory ex-ante framework for crop improvement

M Occelli, D Rubin, HA Tufan - Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Demand-led approaches to crop breeding involve ranking priorities across different
disciplines and stakeholder categories, but the implications of decisions made during …

Development of portfolio management tools in crop breeding programs: a case study of cassava in sub-Saharan Africa

C Egesi, EGN Mbanjo, R Kawuki, B Teeken… - … in Sustainable Food …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The response to the diverse needs along the cassava value chain, the urge to increase
genetic gain, and the need for rapid varietal turnover will necessitate not only technological …

Towards gender-transformative metrics in seed system performance measurement: insights for policy and practice in Sub-Sahara Africa

EB Nchanji, OC Ageyo, R Puskur, N Templer… - CABI Agriculture and …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Context Food insecurity in Sub-Sahara Africa hinges on addressing salient gender
inequities within the seed system. While efficient seed system promises reduced systemic …

[HTML][HTML] Ex-ante priority setting in crop breeding: Towards inclusive innovation for impact

M Occelli, E Compaore, D Brown, F Barry, LS Poda… - Agricultural …, 2024 - Elsevier
CONTEXT Crop breeding teams should ideally work a-priori to rank research priorities and
varietal product concepts to make decisions considering social, environmental, production …

[PDF][PDF] What Happened to Gender-Intentional Participatory Research in Agriculture?

JA Ashby - Gender, Power and Politics in Agriculture: Revisiting …, 2024 - library.oapen.org
The chapter analyzes the evolution of participatory research in agriculture and how gender
and gender analysis have been used within it. In the late twentieth century, farmer …

Let's Talk About Land: A Tale of Two Narratives in Gender and Agricultural Development

HA Tufan, A Sidle, K Kintzi - Gender, Power and Politics in Agriculture …, 2024 - Springer
This chapter analyzes dominant narratives around gender and agricultural development and
how they relate to critical feminist thought, between 1970–2020. We outline our heuristic …

[PDF][PDF] The Tyranny of Tools: The Politics of Knowledge Production in Gender Research

B Cullen, N Lefore, L Debevec… - Gender, Power and …, 2024 - library.oapen.org
This chapter examines the trajectory of analytical frameworks and gender tools intended to
understand and address the challenges and inequities that shape women's engagement in …

Gender Affirmation Surgery: Understanding and Accounting for the Social and Economic Impacts of Access to Care Through an Institutional Ethnography of Patient …

CR Valiquette - 2024 - search.proquest.com
Inequitable coverage of services between and within provinces and strict criteria to qualify
for gender affirming care are barriers that continue to exist for transgender and gender …