An ILRI workshop on Gender and Market-oriented Agriculture is scheduled from January 31st to February 2nd in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The workshop’s objectives are:
1)To bring together researchers, practitioners, private sector and donors that have been working on efforts to promote market oriented agriculture in which gender is an integral component, to share lessons
2) To synthesize lessons on what works in integrating gender and promoting women to participate in and benefit from agricultural markets
3) To collate empirical evidence of the poverty, equity, food security and nutritional impacts of market-oriented agriculture
4) To begin to build a new paradigm for market-oriented research and funding that serves the interests of women
Deadline for registration: November 15, 2010
