Addressing Gender in SASHA

Investing in sweetpotato has great potential to improve women’s incomes, and the nutrition and health of families as sweetpotato is traditionally a “woman’s crop” in SSA. By explicitly monitoring designs of surveys and our delivery system projects to ensure women’s needs were being sufficiently addr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: International Potato Center
Formato: Brief
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/144232
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Sumario:Investing in sweetpotato has great potential to improve women’s incomes, and the nutrition and health of families as sweetpotato is traditionally a “woman’s crop” in SSA. By explicitly monitoring designs of surveys and our delivery system projects to ensure women’s needs were being sufficiently addressed and conducting complementary qualitative research, scientists and practitioners under SASHA have avoided costly errors and become more gender-aware.