Workshop on ‘How to Reach Women Farmers with Innovative Extension Approaches: Insights from the Field’

Claudia Ringler organized a workshop on "How to Reach Women Farmers with Innovative Extension Approaches: Insights from the Field” at the Tropentag 2021 conference themed: “Towards shifting paradigms in agriculture for a healthy and sustainable future" organized by University of Hohenheim, Germany. Muzna Alvi and Kristin Davis presented at this workshop. The workshop materials are provided below

• Women and Access to Information for Climate Resilience Strategies, a review (Rashid Khan, University of Hohenheim):

Gender differences in access to information and adoption of climate-s… (slideshare.net)

(this slide deck is from an ICAE meeting but relates to the same presentation)

Related blog: Does focusing on women farmers with climate resilience strategies pay off?

• Women’s empowerment, agricultural extension, and digitalization: Disentangling information and role-model effects in rural Uganda (Els Lecoutere, CGIAR GENDER Platform)

https://www.slideshare.net/ifpri/empowering-women-through-targeting-information-or-role-models-evidence-from-an-experiment-in-agricultural-extension-in-uganda

Additional materials:

IFPRI discussion paper https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133523

blog on VoxDev https://voxdev.org/topic/agriculture/providing-information-empower-women-agriculture-evidence-uganda that both link to my presentation.

• Using Cellphim and photovoice for farmer-to-farmer extension, case study from Uganda (Laura Kawerau, Evangelisch-Lutherische Landeskirche Hannover, formerly U. Hohenheim)

https://www.slideshare.net/ifpri/using-photovoice-and-video-for-farmertofarmer-extension-a-case-study-on-climatesmart-agriculture-csa-from-uganda

Paper:

https://www.rural21.com/english/scientific-world/detail/article/cellphilms-and-photovoice-how-visual-tools-can-help-understand-farmers-adaptation-to-climate-change

• Gendered access to extension services during Covid-19: Insights from Nepal and India (Muzna Alvi, IFPRI South Asia)

https://www.slideshare.net/ifpri/womens-access-to-agriculture-extension-amidst-covid19-insights-from-india-and-nepal-250436937

Paper: Alvi, Muzna Fatima; Barooah, Prapti; Gupta, Shweta; and Saini, Smriti. 2021. Women's access to agriculture extension amidst COVID-19: Insights from Gujarat, India and Dang, Nepal. Agricultural Systems 188(March 2021): 103035. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2020.103035

• Organizational innovation in times of crises: The case of extension and advisory services during Covid-19 (Kristin Davis, IFPRI

https://www.slideshare.net/ifpri/organizational-innovation-in-times-of-crises-the-case-of-extension-and-advisory-services-during-covid19

Davis, Kristin E.; Snider, Anna; Archibald, Thomas; Grove, Benjamin; and Babu, Suresh Chandra. 2021. Organizational innovation in times of crises: The case of extension and advisory services. Journal of International Agricultural and Extension Education 28(1): 6-14. https://doi.org/10.5191/jiaee.2021.28101

• the two PADLETs that related to part of everyone’s work during the event

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/sr38h1lx4jdkebf/AADVHElPwoypNI7iYwQhHZzTa?dl=0

Thanks to our logistics organizer Katarlah Taylor as well as to our three excellent panelists from the Ministry of Agriculture, Uganda; SEWA, India; and GROOTS Kenya.

Please stay tuned for further publications that will become available at https://www.ifpri.org/project/grassroots-women-information-on-adaptation