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INGENAES: Integrating Gender and Nutrition within Agricultural Extension Services

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INGENAES: Integrating Gender and Nutrition within Agricultural Extension Services

INGENAES is designed to assist partners in Feed the Future countries (www.feedthefuture.gov) to build more robust, gender-responsive, and nutrition-sensitive institutions, projects and programs capable of assessing and responding to the needs of both men and women farmers through EAS; disseminate gender-appropriate and nutrition-enhancing technologies and access to inputs to improve women’s agricultural productivity and enhance household nutrition; identify, test efficacy, and scale proven mechanisms for delivering improved EAS to women farmer; and apply effective, nutrition-sensitive, extension approaches and tools for engaging both men and women. We work to improve agricultural livelihoods focusing on strengthening extension and advisory services to empower and engage smallholder farmers, male and female.

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Implementing Gender-Transformative Approaches (GTAs) in Agricultural Initiatives

What are GTAs? Gender transformative approaches (GTAs) aim to change existing power dynamics, structures, and social norms that are the root causes of gender-based inequality as a means of achieving...

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INGENAES: Integrating Gender and Nutrition within Agricultural Extension Services

Jun 13, 2018
Agricultural Productivity Education and Extension Gender
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Stories of Success: Integrating Gender and Nutrition within Agricultural Extension Services

Since INGENAES activities began in September 2014, we have seen exciting achievements in empowering and engaging women and men smallholder farmers through working with pluralistic extension systems in nine countries...

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INGENAES: Integrating Gender and Nutrition within Agricultural Extension Services

Jun 13, 2018
Education and Extension Gender Nutrition Youth

Best Practices for Integrating Gender Equity and Social Inclusion (GESI) Strategies within Nepal’s Agricultural Extension System

Introduction Exclusionism in Nepal is a complex and multifactorial phenomenon that intertwines the Hindu caste system, gender, and ethnicity and that varies geographically. The combination of the social diversity of...

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INGENAES: Integrating Gender and Nutrition within Agricultural Extension Services

Jun 12, 2018
Education and Extension Gender

Competency Framework for Extension, Nutrition, and Gender Integration

Introduction What types of skills, attitudes, and behaviors (SAB) are necessary to enable institutions to deliver gender- and nutrition-informed services?The INGENAES capacity development activities are intended to build gender-responsive, nutrition-sensitive...

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INGENAES: Integrating Gender and Nutrition within Agricultural Extension Services

Jun 04, 2018
Education and Extension Gender Nutrition

Infant Feeding and Exposure to Aflatoxins

Aflatoxins play an important role in household health and nutrition. Aflatoxins are fungal toxins produced by Aspergillus flavus and Aspergillus parasiticus. Aspergillus is a common form of mold that can...

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INGENAES: Integrating Gender and Nutrition within Agricultural Extension Services

Mar 12, 2018
Education and Extension Gender Nutrition Youth

Professional Skill Development Self Assessment Survey: INGENAES Tip Sheet

This is the Professional Skill Development Self-Assessment Survey tip sheet. View the complete tip sheet by clicking the link below.

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INGENAES: Integrating Gender and Nutrition within Agricultural Extension Services

Jan 08, 2018
Education and Extension

9 Questions for Planning a Training Session: INGENAES Tip Sheet

Who will be participating in the training? Include the number expected and a brief profile. Why is the training needed? Explain the situation that demands such training. When will the...

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INGENAES: Integrating Gender and Nutrition within Agricultural Extension Services

Jan 08, 2018
Education and Extension
Nepal market

What About Gender? Integrating Gender into Agricultural Projects: INGENAES Tip Sheet

Introduction Addressing gender in agricultural extension and advisory service (EAS) projects can result in increased household income and wellbeing. Acknowledgement of the cultural context including gender issues is a critical...

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INGENAES: Integrating Gender and Nutrition within Agricultural Extension Services

Jan 08, 2018
Education and Extension Gender
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Technology Assessment Toolkit

Explore the “Assessing how Agricultural Technologies can change Gender Dynamics and Food Security Outcomes” toolkit, which describes an analytical process to understand the potential gender-related and nutritional impacts of specific...

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INGENAES: Integrating Gender and Nutrition within Agricultural Extension Services

Oct 31, 2017
Agricultural Productivity Education and Extension Gender Nutrition
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Breaking Barriers: Integrating Gender and Nutrition Into Extension Services

Nov 16, 2016 online

Extension professionals are fully committed to improving rural livelihoods and strengthening communities, but there is still a great need across the board to better integrate gender and nutrition into their...

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Our Work

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We collaborate with agricultural extension, gender and nutrition experts worldwide, supporting extension providers in focus countries to:

  • Integrate service delivery mechanisms that better reach women farmers and promote nutrition sensitive agriculture
  • Assist stakeholders in designing and implementing gender-transformative, nutrition-sensitive activities
  • Partner in innovative learning exchanges
  • Carry out needs-based assessments and applied research
  • Create mentoring programs and strengthen networks
  • Support farmer organizations
  • Hold regional technology fairs and virtual marketplaces

Who We Are

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INGENAES is funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is the prime awardee and partners with the University of California-Davis, the University of Florida, and Cultural Practice, LLC.

Work With Us

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INGENAES team members work with USAID missions, civil society organizations, farmer organizations, universities and private sector service providers in Feed The Future countries. This mission-driven program will allow missions to tailor activities that meet their specific needs and issues. Illustrative activities include, but are not limited to the following:

  • Identify and integrate service delivery mechanisms that better reach women farmers and promote nutrition sensitive agriculture
  • Action-oriented training to build capacity of extension staff and NGO staff to design and implement gender-transformative activities and programs
  • Direct support to farmer organizations to design gender-aware organizational policies and procedures
  • Strengthen capacity of national university systems to address gender and nutrition in extension teaching, outreach and research
  • Develop and carry out needs-based assessments and applied research
  • Build and strengthen networks of individuals and organizations involved in agricultural development, extension service provision and policy making.
  • Create mentoring programs that empower women and develop leadership skills
  • Assess the potential of selected technologies (including those in mission scaling plans) on women’s time and labor
  • Hold regional technology fairs and virtual marketplaces to disseminate information about the design and adaptation of technologies, including channels for reaching women
  • Assess information and communication technology options for more effectively reaching women farmers
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