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Making CSA-CIS-One-health Innovations Inclusive: AICCRA Ghana activities on mainstreaming and customizing innovations to women and youth needs

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Title Making CSA-CIS-One-health Innovations Inclusive: AICCRA Ghana activities on mainstreaming and customizing innovations to women and youth needs
 
Creator Obeng, Faustina
Damba, Osman Tahidu
Yeboah, Stephen
Wilson, Michael
Martey, Francisca
Clottey, Victor
Nii-Koi, Gordon
Dalaa, Mustapha Alasan
Agboton, Cyriaque
Tepa-Yotto, Ghislain
 
Subject agriculture
innovation
climate-smart agriculture
gender
 
Description AICCRA Ghana prioritized cowpea and sweet potato value chains for their women friendliness in addition to maize, yam and tomatoes which also involve substantial numbers of women and youth in their value chains. The project prioritized CSA technologies that are women and youth friendly including their lower associated drudgery, affordability, availability and socio-cultural acceptability. To disseminate these technologies, AICCRA Ghana ensured plots selected to host demonstration were convenient to women. The project intentionally selected women’s plots to host demonstration as a way to demystify cultural norms around the productivity of women’s farms. The project further customized field days to the meetings of women’s VSLA groups to encourage more women to attend. The project disseminated CIS through community radios which reached many women and was crucial for farm decision making especially the harvesting of cowpea. To improve women’s decision making in farmer based organizations, AICCRA Ghana convened women’s sub-groups and engaged in transformative dialogues around gender norms that impede their participation and leadership. This improved women’s collective action and improved their voice in FBOs.
 
Date 2022-12
2023-01-14T20:57:58Z
2023-01-14T20:57:58Z
 
Type Report
 
Identifier Obeng F, Damba OT, Yeboah S, Wilson M, Martey F, Clottey V, Nii-Koi G, Dalaa MA, Agboton C, Tepa-Yotto G. 2022. Making CSA-CIS-One-health Innovations Inclusive: AICCRA Ghana activities on mainstreaming and customizing innovations to women and youth needs. AICCRA Report. Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA).
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/127147
 
Language en
 
Rights Other
Open Access
 
Format 19 p.
application/pdf
 
Publisher Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa