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Kalyani Raghunathan

Kalyani Raghunathan is Research Fellow in the Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit, based in New Delhi, India. Her research lies at the intersection of agriculture, gender, social protection, and public health and nutrition, with a specific focus on South Asia and Africa. 

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Seeds of Change Conference

Gender Equality Through Agricultural Research for Development

ACT

The Ann Harding Conference Centre – University of Canberra

24 University Dr

Australia

April 2 to 4, 2019

  • 9:00 – 4:30 pm (America/New_York)
  • 3:00 – 10:30 pm (Europe/Amsterdam)
  • 6:30 – 2:00 am (Asia/Kolkata)

IFPRI is participating extensively in the Seeds of Change conference the first international conference on gender equality through agricultural research for development.

This interdisciplinary conference brings together researchers and practitioners from diverse fields of social science and agriculture focusing on food/commodity/cash crops, subsistence/semi-subsistence sectors, supply chains, climate, forestry, fisheries, and water management. The conference is jointly funded by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research, and the University of Canberra.

Presenter(s)

Workshop/Parallel Session/Panel Session/Abstract Papers

Title

(Workshop/Panel/Presentation)

DateTimeLocation

Hazel Malapit, Jessica Heckert, Elena Martinez

Practice Workshop 1

Using the project-level Women’s

Empowerment in Agriculture Index

2-Apr

9:30am – 12:25pm

AH Seminar 1

Hazel Malapit, Jessica Heckert, Elena Martinez

Practice Workshop 6

Integrating gender into agriculture nutrition research

2-Apr

1:15pm – 4:15pm

AH Seminar 1

Hosaena Ghebru 

Parallel Session 1

Land and Gender and Transformation

Perceived tenure (in)security in the era of rural transformation: A gender-disaggregated analysis from Mozambique

3-Apr

11:00am – 12:25pm

AH Conference

Ruth Meinzen-Dick 

Parallel Session 1

Land and Gender and Transformation

Women’s tenure security on collective lands: Implications for measurement and policy

3-Apr

11:00am – 12:25pm

AH Conference

Audrey Pereira 

Parallel Session 1

Masculinities and Agriculture

Comparing empowerment transitions of men and women in rural Bangladesh

3-Apr

11:00am – 12:25pm

AH Seminar 1

Katrina Kosec 

Parallel Session 1

Masculinities and Agriculture

How does poverty influence women’s empowerment? Evidence from Papua New Guinea

3-Apr

11:00am – 12:25pm

AH Seminar 1

Berber Kramer 

Parallel Session 1

Gendered Roles and Farm Production

Labor scarcity and women’s role in agricultural production: Evidence from Bangladesh

3-Apr

11:00am – 12:25pm

AH Seminar 2

Akhter Ahmed, John McDermott 

Parallel Sessions 1 (Plenary Panel)

A conversation with men champions of gender equality: Challenging harmful masculinities for better development outcomes

3-Apr

1:30pm – 2:25pm

AH Conference

Agnes Quisumbing (chair)

Parallel Session 2

Measuring Impacts on Nutrition and Empowerment

3-Apr

2:30pm – 3:25pm

IC Studio

Agnes Quisumbing, Akhter Ahmed, Neha Kumar

Parallel Session 2 (Panel 1)

Measuring Impacts on Nutrition and Empowerment

Empowerment impacts of agricultural development projects in South Asia

3-Apr

2:30pm – 3:25pm

IC Studio

Jessica Heckert

Parallel Session 2

Markets and Labor

Developing measures of mobility for gendered studies of agricultural value chains

3-Apr

2:30pm – 3:25pm

AH Conference

Alan de Brauw

Parallel Session 2

Markets and Labor

Can Market Systems Interventions work for both men and women? Evidence from Bangladesh

3-Apr

2:30pm – 3:25pm

AH Conference

Neha Kumar, Akhter Ahmed

Parallel Session 3 (Roundtable 2)

Integrating Nutrition and Gender in Agriculture Projects

Nutrition- AND Gender Sensitive Agricultural Projects: Challenges and Opportunities

3-Apr

4:00pm – 4:55pm

IC Studio

Katrina Kosec (chair)

Parallel Session 4

Gender and Migration

4-Apr

11:00am – 12:25pm

AH Conference

Audrey Pereira 

Parallel Session 4

Gender and Migration

The Monster-in-Law Effect: Linking qualitative observations to quantitative analysis on household structure, migration, and empowerment in Nepal

4-Apr

11:00am – 12:25pm

AH Conference

Kalyani Raghunathan

Parallel Session 4

Gender and Migration

Rural transformation, empowerment, and agricultural linkages in Nepal

4-Apr

11:00am – 12:25pm

AH Conference

Frank Place

Parallel Session 4

Gender and Technologies

4-Apr

11:00am – 12:25pm

AH Seminar 1

Catherine RagasaParallel Session 4

Gender Integration in Value Chains and Market Systems Research: Strategies and Way Forward

How empowering are agricultural value chains? Evidence from mixed methods research from the Philippines

4-Apr

11:00am – 12:25pm

IC TEAL

Emily Camille Myers

Parallel Session 5

Gender and Value Chains

Understanding empowerment among informal milk traders in Peri-urban Nairobi: Informing an adaptation of the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index

4-Apr

1:30pm – 2:55pm

IC Studio

Agnes Quisumbing (chair)

Parallel Session 5

Empowerment

4-Apr

1:30pm – 2:55pm

AH Conference

Ruth Meinzen-Dick

Parallel Session 5

Empowerment

Women’s empowerment in agriculture: Lessons from qualitative research

4-Apr

1:30pm – 2:55pm

AH Conference

Elena Martinez

Parallel Session 5

Empowerment

Who is empowered? An analysis of predictors of empowerment in six countries in Africa and Asia

4-Apr

1:30pm – 2:55pm

AH Conference

Alessandro de Pinto

Parallel Session 5

Empowerment

Empowered Bangladeshi women can make agriculture more resilient to climate change

4-Apr

1:30pm – 2:55pm

AH Conference

Catherine Ragasa

Parallel Session 5

Innovative Practices Supporting Women’s Work

Knowledge is power: Modeling the effect of interactive radio programming on women’s empowerment and agricultural transformation in Malawi

4-Apr

1:30pm – 2:55pm

IC Flex

Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Agnes Quisumbing, Hazel Malapit

Parallel Session 5 (Panel 8)

Capacity Development for Gender Integration: Insights from Experience

Effective gender training for agricultural researchers: Lessons learned for best practice

4-Apr

1:30pm – 2:55pm

IC TEAL

Hazel Malapit

Parallel Session 5

Capacity Development for Gender Integration: Insights from Experience

The challenges ahead: A provocations plenary

4-Apr

3:30pm – 4:30pm

AH Conference

Neha Kumar, Akhter Ahmed

Abstract: (Roundtable 2)

Nutrition AND Gender-Sensitive Agricultural Projects: Challenges and Opportunities

   

Audrey Pereira with Akhter Ahmed, Hazel Malapit, Elena Martinez, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Dee Rubin, Agnes Quisumbing, Greg Seymour, Salauddin Tauseef

Abstract (Paper)

Comparing empowerment transitions of men and women in rural Bangladesh

   

Akhter Ahmed with John Hoddinott, Purnima Menon, Agnes Quisumbing, Shalini Roy, and Younus Masuma

Abstract (Paper)

Designing for empowerment impact: The Agriculture Nutrition, and Gender Linkages project in Bangladesh

   

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