In this spinoff course, GREAT and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)  deployed a customized gender integration course for breeders and social scientists. The course adopted  a participatory hands-on approach that equips participants with skills to conceptualize, design and plan appropriate gender-responsive research, and to analyze, interpret, and integrate qualitative and quantitative sex-disaggregated data.

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Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Legume Systems

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Course Objectives

• Recognize the relevance of gender to agriculture and plant breeding in sub-Saharan Africa
• Explain key concepts pertinent to market and gender-responsive plant breeding
• Conduct gender-responsive breeding priority setting
• Demonstrate the ability to design a gender responsive breeding program that draws on mixed methods (qualitative and quantitative methods)
• Recognise what it takes to conduct interdisciplinary research